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Update on the beta version of the new site. See notes inside. [more inside]
posted by kirkaracha at 6:14 PM - 47 comments

The beta version of the new site is ready for testing. See lots of notes inside. [more inside]
posted by kirkaracha at 2:46 PM - 141 comments

When will elections for permanent board members for the MetaFilter Community Foundation take place? [more inside]
posted by ssg at 12:28 PM - 155 comments

Just because your reply has a lot of characters, that doesn't mean you have character, am I right. Okay. [more inside]
posted by kittens for breakfast at 5:46 AM - 149 comments

Obituary. He was member Servo5678 here, and also on everything2, which is where I first met him. I mean online, I never met him in person. For more, see inside. [more inside]
posted by JHarris at 2:09 AM - 54 comments

The Moderation Oversight Committee is hoping to get properly up and running soon, and a big part of that is going to be a submission process so we can receive and discuss users' issues with moderation practices in an orderly fashion. As of now, we have a draft version of a Google Form that we're pretty happy with as the mechanism for receiving requests, but we'd like your help refining and finalizing that form before we give it the big public roll-out. [more inside]
posted by Kybard at 7:15 PM - 6 comments

Hello and welcome to this month’s site update! Last month’s update can be found here [more inside]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:16 PM - 251 comments

Inspired by the answers to Is the World Ending, it seemed like a good idea to share these answers with as many people as possible! It's a lot harder to have a Calmer Vibes Chill Thread today. That seems so quaint. Yikes. This is a place to post all of the reasons you know about that mean The World is Not Going To End Soon. ❤️ (examples within) [more inside]
posted by Glinn at 3:52 PM - 14 comments

Including one especially depressing one with the heartbreaking comment, "Where is the USPolitics tag? I didn't need to see this." The current balance between "MetaFilter is not a news site" and "We need to vent because we're shitting our pants in terror" does not seem sustainable. I propose enforcing a no-doubles rule on TFG matters. If he signs an executive order tomorrow outlawing public laughter, let anyone putting up a post about it be told to put it here.
posted by Lemkin at 3:14 PM - 53 comments

The "social sharing" option on posts (the single little icon off to the right if you haven't turned them off in your preferences) was first added in 2011, with Twitter and Facebook. Twitter was removed in September 2023. I think, given everything, we should also remove the Facebook option. And in general I'd prefer to have zero than one, no matter what the "one" site is. I don't have a strong opinion about what sites, if any, should be there. But perhaps we could come up with a consensus on two or three new options. (I've had some small discussions with the admins about this and they suggested a MeTa post to discuss.)
posted by skynxnex at 8:22 AM - 37 comments