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This community is a place for MeFites on Dreamwidth to congregate and communicate--if nothing else, this will let us point somebody to the community's reading page so they can see the journals of other MeFites.
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Additionally, people with offsite blogs that have RSS/Atom feeds can request I add their blog to
metafilter_hub to make them more discoverable to other mefites!20 years already???
It's AskMetafilter's cake day, come by and say hey!https://t.co/QiKi39PNOR
— MetaFilter (@metafilter) December 12, 2023
#anniversary #askmetafilter #birthday #cakeday #bestofmetafilter pic.twitter.com/pkQa0RGM9d
made a few FPPs recently
Thought folks here might like to know of a few MetaFilter front page posts I made recently, and possibly comment here if for whatever reason you'd rather chat about them here than there:
"neuroatypicality in the workplace"
"spotted cool things their listing bots had mislabeled and underpriced"
"How does 'you guys' work in English? Linguistically?"
"I apologize for disturbing you, Ensign"
"neuroatypicality in the workplace"
"spotted cool things their listing bots had mislabeled and underpriced"
"How does 'you guys' work in English? Linguistically?"
"I apologize for disturbing you, Ensign"
Virtual IRL?
Hi peeps, does anyone have plans to do virtual meet ups? The YYC bunch had one last night using GoTo Meeting and it worked really well! I found it really energizing even though I am an introvert.
How are you coping with social distancing and self-isolation?
How are you coping with social distancing and self-isolation?
foxfirefey2019-11-21 02:13 pmsciatrix publishes a paper in Nature!
Don't miss sciatrix and company's FPP post on Metafilter about their paper in Nature: An alternative hypothesis for the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in animals.
sciatrix and company's FPP post on Metafilter about their paper in Nature: An alternative hypothesis for the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in animals.NaMaCraMo
Hi friends, in light of yesterday's Inktober post on the blue, there is a month long crafty challenge on DW and LJ under the name NaMaCraMo - https://nacramamo.dreamwidth.org/. National Craft Making Month is free form and low pressure. Feel free to join!
collaborative FPP drafting
The MeFi wiki now has a page to help folks collaborate on drafting front page posts for MetaFilter.
Python learners?
In this thread, OnTheLastCastle asks:
So if you are, consider commenting there?
I just started learning Python and the community is so wonderful. Very friendly and helpful to new people. It's great, I'm hooked on that and the language. Anyone else newly learning? I'm doing it so I can start doing data analysis.
So if you are, consider commenting there?
foxfirefey2019-08-01 06:25 pmMegathread transplant plan thread
I set up ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
megathread and have a plan making post for anybody interesting in seeing if we can transplant some form of megathread over into a Dreamwidth context!
No matter how this shakes out, at some point I'll have a very nice Metafilter style to apply to this community, and a good intro on using DW.
megathread and have a plan making post for anybody interesting in seeing if we can transplant some form of megathread over into a Dreamwidth context!No matter how this shakes out, at some point I'll have a very nice Metafilter style to apply to this community, and a good intro on using DW.
discussion of Dreamwidth features in MetaTalk
Some MetaFilter members who currently discuss US politics in "megathreads" on the blue are discussing whether to try to move that kind of synthesis and discussion to some other platform(s), and I mentioned Dreamwidth communities. I'd love for folks here who have experience modding or administering DW communities to comment in that thread; darkstar and, later, TWinbrook8 have multiple comments asking questions that I could use help answering.
chrysostom2019-07-09 07:13 pmMetafilter and POCs
If you haven't been by to MeTa in a while, there is a major discussion about the issues the site has historically had with racial/cultural issues. We've had discussions before that didn't really amount to much, of course, but this seems to really be a juncture point for the site in the way that "boyzone" was for sex. Input from folks is welcomed, especially from POC folks.
silversandbea2019-04-09 08:38 pmHugo Nominees Club on Fanfare
In case anyone who would be interested missed it, I started a 2019 Hugo Nominees Club on Fanfare. There's two posts so far - both for stuff that's available online: a short stories megapost and On a Sunbeam. There's going to be rotating novella, novel, and graphic novel posts every Monday, and a Novelette megapost in a month or so.
jesse_the_k2019-03-18 06:55 pmMeFites Brag on Their Pets in Talk
This is an evergreen thread which I know I’ll enjoy in a year or more.
https://metatalk.metafilter.com/25139/Metatalktail-Hour-PETS
https://metatalk.metafilter.com/25139/Metatalktail-Hour-PETS
IRL
I went to my first IRL meet up recently. It was fun! Have you gone to one? Have you organized one?
monday metametafilter
It occurred to me that I've been having some interesting chats on metafilter, so I thought that I might as well archive a few things here, too.
Over on my blog, I've put up a roundup of some of the thoughtful discussions I've been having on the Blue recently, in case other people found them interesting.
Let me know if this is an inappropriate use of the comm, of course!
Livejournal, remembered
I thought it was appropriate to double cross post this :-)
https://www.metafilter.com/178923/Livejournal-remembered
https://www.metafilter.com/178923/Livejournal-remembered
Signal Boost: the sorrow of my favorite absence
sciatrix posted: the sorrow of my favorite absence
...but wow, having been spending so much time over on MeFi, I really miss the whisperspace of favorites. (I'm stealing that concept off of greywash, who had a really interesting piece about it last week.)
I've got a post about an adjustment about how I miss MeFi-style favorites over here. Thought some of the folks over here might enjoy it, and I definitely think y'all probably have your own opinions. Heh.
Seeking help with a front-page post
I'm pretty interested in the life of Dilip Singh Saund and am working on a front-page MetaFilter post about him. infini posted partially about him in 2012 but I have found some interesting materials to link to that I think weren't in that post. I would appreciate help framing and editing what I have.
A nonprofit hosts an instance of Etherpad, a collaborative document-editing platform, for anyone to use, so I've started an Etherpad to use in working on this post. There you can see the links and rough sequence I have so far.
I worry that I have a tendency to go on too long and cram too much stuff in to a post on the blue, so I would welcome "here's what I think are the most important/interesting parts here" comments so I can be more concise. Or "this is all great! Making a post that is everything including the kitchen sink is fine!" would also be welcome. Or, if you want to take over and write and post it to MeFi yourself, go ahead! Just speak up here and say you're going to do that, and credit me somewhere in the post.
A nonprofit hosts an instance of Etherpad, a collaborative document-editing platform, for anyone to use, so I've started an Etherpad to use in working on this post. There you can see the links and rough sequence I have so far.
I worry that I have a tendency to go on too long and cram too much stuff in to a post on the blue, so I would welcome "here's what I think are the most important/interesting parts here" comments so I can be more concise. Or "this is all great! Making a post that is everything including the kitchen sink is fine!" would also be welcome. Or, if you want to take over and write and post it to MeFi yourself, go ahead! Just speak up here and say you're going to do that, and credit me somewhere in the post.