MetaTalk

I was pumped at the not so recent announcement that there would be a "my Fanfare" way to follow discussions on Fanfare, but I totally failed to find it and only just now did. I suspect this is a usability problem that could be fixed. [more inside]
posted by localroger at 3:49 PM - 23 comments

So currently: 1. any Amazon links posted onsite get a Metafilter affiliate url added to them. 2. We have the Metafilter mall of stuff made by us. 3. We have the Metafilter shirt store over at TopatoCo. 4. There are offsite collections of 'most popular' books on AskMe.

None of these are particularly obvious to find on (or off) the site. Why not have a real grown-up 'store' which could house all of the above, as well as a lightly curated collection of 'most popular' recommendations for stuff on AskMetafilter? This would aggregate the suggestions to make them more useful and browsable to members.
posted by leotrotsky at 8:46 AM - 35 comments

From what I can tell, the last improvement to the Random option was allowing users to search for random posts within their favorites. I have always dreamed of having the option to pull up random AskMe questions within a specific category archive. (When I want to get my human relations fix on, I don't feel like wading through computer questions from 10 years ago.) Is this something that would be easy enough to implement? Is anyone else interested in this?
posted by Neely O'Hara at 1:47 PM - 19 comments

Our recent discussion of thread closing got us thinking: why do Podcast threads close on the same schedule as other MetaTalk threads? We changed that today. Podcast threads in MetaTalk are now open to comments forever. Here's a handy list of those threads.
posted by pb at 12:08 PM - 28 comments

I find the options in the Contacts form for relationships somewhat limiting. I know this is trivial but I can't help thinking it could be awesomer. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 9:37 AM - 61 comments

Today we're rolling out a new feature that allows you to add a thread to Recent Activity even if you haven't commented in it. [more inside]
posted by pb at 1:58 PM - 157 comments

Sometimes comments in recent activity get truncated with a "[...]" when they run too long. Could we allow MeFites to customize this aggressiveness? For instance, I've currently got a thread at the top of Recent Activity that contains a number of comments such as this one (9,414 characters over five paragraphs) and this one (11,121 characters over six paragraphs). These walls of text make it difficult to navigate. If I could choose the point at which comments are truncated (say, two paragraphs or 1,000 characters, whichever comes second) I -and maybe others?- would be a happy camper. Is this a cool and reasonable idea?
posted by Going To Maine at 8:04 AM - 73 comments

I've been working on some new bookmarklets for MetaFilter. They’re designed to add bits of functionality to the site and can be used individually or in tandem. [more inside]
posted by Jeff Howard at 8:12 AM - 32 comments

Firefox should highlight MeFi's pinned tab on new mail like it does on new comments. [more inside]
posted by MoTLD at 9:07 PM - 18 comments

Hello! I have clumsy fingers and clicking the plus sign to "add to favorites" often leads me to the /favorited page for that post, because I miss. It'd be neat if the option to "Add to favorites" appeared on that page, so that I wouldn't have to go back to the original post/moment and try again (often missing again). Thanks for your consideration.
posted by disclaimer at 2:52 PM - 11 comments