MetaTalk

"Error Occurred While Processing Request" - Is it just me, or is Metafilter down?
posted by pracowity to Bugs at 1:44 AM - 34 comments

Is anyone else dissapointed in the results of this ?
posted by keithl to MetaFilter-Related at 10:46 AM - 44 comments

what? no love for waferbaby?
posted by jcterminal to MetaFilter-Related at 7:54 PM - 5 comments

Shouldn't you post rants on your own blog if you have one?
posted by dchase to Etiquette/Policy at 4:47 PM - 17 comments

In the vein of hoopla.com and smug.com, my domain has also been stolen. I have no idea what to do about this. I'm stuck in rural Ontario on a brutally slow dialup connection, and it's tough to do anything internet-related out here. Is there anything I can do? [more inside]
posted by Succa to General Weblog-Related at 11:35 AM - 59 comments

Groan. Please. Stop.

Maybe we can set up a litterbox someplace where the concerned parties can fling the usual turds at each other till their batteries run down. These FPPs don't even seem to be conducive to discussion anymore. Agree to disagree already.
posted by artifex to MetaFilter-Related at 10:48 AM - 30 comments

seethru.co.uk is closing down. i never really liked it anyway but would check their weblog now and then for some lame online quizzes. however their random url generator and websites no-one has thought of yet were pretty good.
posted by mokey to General Weblog-Related at 5:46 AM - 6 comments

SDB suggests that webloggers cluster themselves into like-minded groups, and cross-link accordingly. Disagreements (including here) are what he calls "religious" in nature: "A-list" vs. warblogger, "E/N" vs. "A-list", etc. Does Steve's structuralist argument hold up? Are his characterizations fair or accurate? Do you slot yourself into a group? Are the blogs you link to in a similar vein as yours?
posted by mcwetboy to General Weblog-Related at 5:10 PM - 113 comments

Lots and lots of people have died, even musicians and oceanographers. It's been happening for a long time, and for many different reasons. People have different ways of dealing with/commemorating a death, if they care at all. Sometimes they throw a party. So don't get all pissed when I'm in the back row, giggling at the all-too-public funeral
posted by Su to Etiquette/Policy at 3:31 PM - 31 comments

I think it's fantastic that our email addresses are now shielded from non-members, but that still means that 13,000 people are free to send anonymous flames to any member--or to sign them up for spam. How about this: Instead of the profile page displaying the email address, it shows an email form. One would have to be logged in to use it, the sender's username would show up in the email, and the recipient's address would remain hidden.
posted by jpoulos to Feature Requests at 8:33 AM - 26 comments

I seem to be the first one back home and at a PC, so I guess this'll be the NYC mefi meet...please post links to pics and whatnot...Rob the EMT does exist and he says hello..so fire away with reports from the feild brothers and sisters...
posted by jonmc to Bugs at 12:00 AM - 59 comments

Triple? Quad? What's the MeFi duplicate FPP record?
posted by nathan_teske to MetaFilter-Related at 7:40 PM - 10 comments

As of some time this afternoon my font preferences from MeFi are working in MeTa also. Is this new or is IE just acting up again? I'm in mac OS 9.2, IE 5.1
posted by anathema to Bugs at 7:08 PM - 5 comments

"A few daughters are in the office today. I'm going to show them stuff like Blogger, CNet, Loobylu and Habbo Hotel. What would you show them?" 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. (The community has spoken. No comment here.)

posted by sheauga to Etiquette/Policy at 5:49 PM - 12 comments

I was gonna post a link in MeFi and wanted to have my post contain a few chinese characters. . .believe me this would have been a laugh riot. I pasted in some Chinese and they came out as question marks on the preview so I decided that it would not have been THAT funny after all.

Is there something intrinsic in the MeFi servers that prevent non-English characters, or do I just need to try harder?
posted by Danf to Feature Requests at 11:59 AM - 9 comments

I'm getting a Cold Fusion error instead of the frontpage if I'm not logged in at the moment.

P.S. Metafilter mentioned on webmonkey today!

posted by astro38 to Bugs at 6:30 AM - 9 comments

When a MeTa thread has played its course, chattiness and jokes sometimes rush in. Although I realize it's a minority sport, I just love thread-ends. There's something ecological about using left-overs for imaginative and friendly banter. Is my excuse, anyway...

Like soon-to-be-deleted threads on MetaFilter, they serve a useful pressure-valve purpose: they redirect playfulness away from serious discussions and probably inhibit initiating purposefully chatty posts. At least for me. Is this acceptable, now that MetaTalk has become specifically Meta again? Or, at least, can it be lived with? I hope so.
posted by MiguelCardoso to Etiquette/Policy at 2:59 AM - 121 comments

Tired of using mefi/mefi to log into the New York Times?

Now you don't have to.
posted by mr_crash_davis to MetaFilter-Related at 7:05 PM - 31 comments

Kuro5hin's implementation of dynamic threading almost makes threading easy to follow and use. Impressive use of technology to solve a usability problem (reading deeply threaded conversations online is a real bear, requiring many page loads).
posted by mathowie (staff) to General Weblog-Related at 5:53 PM - 8 comments

Matt & MeFi (via Shift.com's list) named in SacBee article Are Internet celebrities the next big thing or simply one-hit wonders?
posted by gen to MetaFilter-Related at 4:12 PM - 41 comments