MetaTalk

Does Metafilter have someplace that we can go to check on the health of MeFi itself, or get repair updates, that's NOT hosted at Metafilter itself? Other websites will often have an Twitter account for that. I realize that MeFi has left Twitter, but is there someplace else we can go to check, when MeFi itself goes down? [more inside]
posted by intermod on Jan 14, 2025 - 12 comments

When you edit your profile, you get a nice free-form field for your “Relationship Status”. On your profile, it is listed as “Status”. (All other fields are described with identical language on both pages.)This has driven my pedantic self nuts for ages. Would it be possible to update the “edit profile” page so that it just asks for “Status”? Or, if we want to be wordy, for your “Status (Personal/Relationship/Whatever)”?
posted by Going To Maine on May 7, 2018 - 8 comments

Thought there might should be one of these. Ophelia was a cyclone, tempest, a God damned hurricane. And she's bearing down on Ireland. Should be a little weaker, but MeFis, stay safe!
posted by zabuni on Oct 15, 2017 - 16 comments

I hate that we have to have another one of these threads. Hurricane Maria has just strengthened to Category 5 and appears to be threatening the Caribbean again, most notably Puerto Rico. Caribbean Meifites, please sound off and I hope you're all okay.
posted by PearlRose on Sep 18, 2017 - 27 comments

I was initially trying to read the metafilter post There's No Avoiding Google+ and I kept getting a server error: Your Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.64 Safari/537.31 [more inside]
posted by UsernameGenerator on Apr 16, 2013 - 28 comments

Why isn't "status" an open text field, too? [more inside]
posted by two lights above the sea on Dec 7, 2010 - 173 comments

Bug report: I updated my profile, and it reset my status to Single. [more inside]
posted by owtytrof on Jan 26, 2009 - 37 comments

Pony Request: Comments on the status blog.
posted by blue_beetle on Jan 26, 2009 - 25 comments

Tiny Contacts Pony! [more inside]
posted by SassHat on Dec 8, 2007 - 10 comments

Ugh. Ok, we should be back now, mostly working. I'm sure there are lots of little things I need to fix and I'll try and get things going over the next couple days.
posted by mathowie on Mar 26, 2007 - 146 comments

What's it all for, anyway? Why do we fight? I mean, where's it going? What happens if the whole ball of wax just up and disappears one day? In short, why are we here? I'm speaking of Metafilter, of course! Pony-please: An admin blog detailing site-related news, plans in development, maybe a good call-out now and then. This seems preferable to combing MeTa for stray comments in re the next big thing.
posted by anotherpanacea on Aug 23, 2006 - 21 comments

Mefi Status Blog problem: the link on the sidebar takes you to a TypePad error page.
posted by matthewr on Feb 7, 2006 - 2 comments

status.metafilter.com's RSS 2.0 and Atom. may cause problems for some users. [mi]
posted by sequential on Nov 13, 2005 - 5 comments

Matt: when you setup status.metafilter.com, wasn't it supposed to be independent of the Mefi server? I don't get how come they were both down at the same time last night.
posted by dash_slot- on Aug 15, 2004 - 41 comments

Was anyone else offline last night between 6 & 11 p.m. PDT besides me?
posted by Lynsey on Jun 9, 2003 - 11 comments

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is MeFi dead? I haven't been getting through all day until just now, and even now I'm only seeing "Index Of" and two HRs.
posted by oissubke on Jan 10, 2003 - 38 comments