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Reminder: NYC MeFi gathering *tomorrow night* at Pioneer (218 Bowery btw. Prince & Spring. 212.334.0484) 8PM.
posted by lizs to MetaFilter Gatherings at 1:56 PM - 32 comments

Has anyone noticed that more and more Metafilter threads can basically be guaranteed to reflect Blogdex? I guess it's to be expected, but for some reason the predictability irks me.
posted by jeremias to MetaFilter-Related at 8:15 AM - 16 comments

I've said it before and I'll say it again, but world leaders could take a lesson from the firm yet benevolent way in which Andrew admins his web community. And I'll save you the trouble, the "tractors are sexy" link is here.
posted by luser to General Weblog-Related at 6:18 AM - 15 comments

No more I/P or P/I words from me for at least 10 days. My quota has been exceeded.
posted by ParisParamus to Etiquette/Policy at 3:21 AM - 38 comments

Today on Today the guy who runs modestneeds.com talked about his site said he got thousands of hits after it was posted to Metafilter. I can't find a transcript though.
posted by darkpony to MetaFilter-Related at 6:17 PM - 27 comments

I'm curious, what did other mefiers do during the outage? I'm 1/3 through the first volume of a certain story by Proust, although to be fair I've had a lot of free time these past few days.
posted by Settle to Uptime at 3:37 PM - 49 comments

We're back!

Now what the hell happened?
posted by joemaller to MetaFilter-Related at 3:10 PM - 68 comments

Why not a Metatalk category for double posts. Apparently, some people get off on recognizing them; refering to a post being a double shouldn't be on Metafilter ever.
posted by ParisParamus to Bugs at 8:34 PM - 17 comments

I have been reading about cookies, persistent logins, and session management lately and was curious how the MeFi code handles this. (Specifically, persistence of user information across sessions.) I couldn't find a description of this in any old MeTa threads.... [more inside]

posted by finn to MetaFilter-Related at 2:17 PM - 4 comments

Best of MeFi, would it be possible to revive it? Matt pointed out it was too much work to do it daily, and he already puts in way too much time and effort running this place. Perhaps it would be better if it was a weekly or a bi-weekly email, with a volunteer guest editor picking the threads. What do you think?
posted by riffola to Feature Requests at 2:06 PM - 14 comments

She's to modest to self-link to it, but the iconatrix has a fun mefi-related poll going at her own weblog(scroll down). So far only 5 people have answered and you know that ain't enough brothers and sisters...
posted by jonmc to MetaFilter-Related at 8:30 PM - 71 comments

Can we please have some mechanism to prevent double posts? it's pretty simple to implement, and should'nt increase any load on the server... For example, this post has many double posts...
posted by arnab to Feature Requests at 11:28 AM - 12 comments

At the moment I can log into MetaTalk, but not MetaFilter. Is this a odd occurence on the server, or more likely, is my computer messed up?
posted by Apoch to Bugs at 6:27 AM - 4 comments

A William Carlos Williams poem, with every line as a link? Apart from wasting a dozen lines of front page space, it strikes me that the contribution didn't engender much discussion aside from debating how annoying the post was.
posted by skylar to Etiquette/Policy at 1:38 AM - 13 comments

"Strong Stuff" 2X? (Is this a subtle form of flaming?)
posted by xammerboy to Etiquette/Policy at 12:30 PM - 19 comments

so what happened to the asians offended by the A&F clothes story? There were 18 comments, but I never got to read them...
posted by azazello to MetaFilter-Related at 9:13 AM - 4 comments

What would happen if you split MeFi into two "teams", each a community of its own? This isn't a serious suggestion, but it's a fun possibility to entertain. More inside »
posted by jkottke to MetaFilter-Related at 12:31 AM - 82 comments

Is the MeFi IRC chat still in use at all? (server: irc.metafilter.com, #mefi)

I've checked that and the old EFnet #metafilter channel a few times over the past week and no one seems to be hanging out in either.
posted by Melinika to MetaFilter-Related at 11:03 AM - 10 comments

I'd like to congratulate Jerry Kindall for his service to the Metafilter community: He runs the MeFi Projects Announcement list, which has recently begun announcing people for hire once a month. It was a year old on April 16. Thanks, Jerry.
posted by Mo Nickels to MetaFilter-Related at 10:28 AM - 18 comments

Would it be possible to "melt" some threads? Right now there are three threads all relating to the plane-hit-Milan-tower. Which one should I put my comments in? The first? The last? Malcom in the middle?

I have no idea on what the code behind Mefi allows (PHP?). Just an idea for similar cases that are bound to happen.
posted by Baud to Feature Requests at 9:47 AM - 13 comments