MetaTalk

I have never understood why a subsite for discussing "TV, movies, podcasts, and books" is not also for discussing music. But, at a scan, that subsite is truly never used for music. Could it be? As in, is that currently allowed and, if not, would such a change be welcome in this community?
posted by kensington314 on Oct 13 at 9:48 AM - 27 comments

I'm working on holiday/ end of year sales plans for my artistic venture and wondered if there's anything in the works to promote the MeFi Mall this year? It felt like it was sort of forgotten last year.
posted by Sweetie Darling on Oct 5 at 12:39 PM - 7 comments

Some sad news: MeFite dayan passed away last night. He hadn't been on MeFi for quite a while but hung out in a MeFi spinoff group I'm in and was also really involved in the quizzing and Jeopardy communities and I thought people here might want to know.
posted by jessamyn on Sep 25 at 1:31 PM - 47 comments

kanuck posted some straight-up blackpill content on the front page. It's still up. I've flagged the post with a note for the mods, but how can we as a community respond more assertively to blatant misogyny that's "well packaged"?
posted by MiraK on Oct 6 at 8:56 AM - 180 comments

I made an offhand offer of Bluesky invites in a thread and rapidly got more interest than I had invites. So I thought perhaps there was enough interest, and hopefully enough surplus invites, in the community to balance out!
posted by restless_nomad on Sep 14 at 2:07 PM - 172 comments

now that the annual metafilter fundraiser is over, this is your opportunity to support other people and projects that are underfunded. Sort of like an auction or the mefi mall except you don't even have to acquire anything! Share stories, links, etc.
posted by aniola on Sep 27 at 11:35 AM - 10 comments

Welcome to your monthly Site Update for MetaFilter, our beloved community weblog! The last update is here. You’ll find some updates regarding the site below. I’m looking forward to your feedback and questions.

Reminder: I will be the only mod monitoring this thread so please be patient and constructive as I reply to your feedback and questions.
posted by loup on Sep 20 at 12:28 PM - 188 comments

The ableism in this thread was so blatant and astounding that we really need to talk about it. The notion that it’s ok because it’s a thread for caretakers to vent is nothing short of disturbing for a disabled person. We would not feel as though other forms of bigotry are ok to vent about in a thread and the people pushing back on it are just not understanding how necessary it is. This is not a matter of more moderation being a solution. This really is a matter for people to wrestle with and come to grips with. You are describing fellow Mefites as “grotesque.” You don’t view it that way, and we’re supposed to be ok with it because it’s your experience. But sometimes you really gotta challenge your experiences and ask yourself why you are treating something hurtful and subjective as an objective truth for yourself and learn how to change yourself. This is the work. This kind of ableism is rampant and that thread is a super distilled version of it.
posted by Bottlecap on Sep 26 at 11:28 AM - 50 comments

I've noticed in a couple of AskMes that the answers/advice being given can really be harsh sometimes. Especially when the person asking has maybe not been their best selves. Reading through a thread can seem like a pile on. I'm wondering if this is truly helpful.
posted by brookeb on Sep 25 at 8:03 AM - 62 comments

This is a test page that was created for Fanfare that I think would be way better at fostering conversations and getting people chatting. You can see active conversations and jump in if they interest you, and start a new one if there's a show/movie/game you like that's been posted but isn't getting any attention. Can it be the default? Hopefully an extremely simple change, and the old style could be kept as a fallback.
posted by Sebmojo on Sep 19 at 1:34 PM - 46 comments

I see there's a real-time chat, why not one in the style of the site? A sort of miscellaneous, Not Otherwise Specified subsite. I'm imagining basically chatfilter questions & maybe funny or interesting things not chewy enough for a FPP. (This is not really A Suggestion, more a what if & why/why not curiosity.)
posted by Baethan on Sep 14 at 11:14 AM - 40 comments

Why all the bee chat all over the site this week? I appreciate it, but I'd like to both appreciate and understand it.
posted by kensington314 on Sep 13 at 9:56 AM - 49 comments

cortex has a new job and was hard to track down and we had a few months of missing each other. We found some time on August 14th and tried to play catch-up. Runs about 97 minutes.
posted by jessamyn on Aug 14 at 1:05 PM - 19 comments

Want to own this lovely Stained Glass MetaFilter Favicon created by cortex?
posted by skunk pig on Sep 6 at 10:12 AM - 24 comments

AKA we’re temporarily removing the chatfilter restrictions on Ask Metafilter IF you make a donation to the site, as part of the 2023 MetaFilter Fundraiser!
posted by Brandon Blatcher on Aug 22 at 11:23 AM - 43 comments

Hi there, MetaFilter!

Welcome to your monthly Site Update! The last update is here. You’ll find some updates regarding the site below. I’m looking forward to your feedback and questions.

Reminder: I will be the only mod monitoring this thread so please be patient as I reply to your feedback and questions.
posted by loup on Aug 16 at 3:15 PM - 281 comments

A belated notification to MeFites that Jesse Porter, known to us as boo_radley, passed away in February of this year.
posted by jessamyn on Sep 4 at 10:05 AM - 126 comments

In the post on Rotten Tomatoes, someone mentioned Metacritic, which immediately made my inner reader voice add “(no relation)”. And it made me wonder - at this point, especially thanks to DirtyOldTown’s continuing fantastic posting of older movies, whether we could add a “liked it / it was ok / didn’t like it” button that people could click that would show as a metric under the post, like a favorites count.
posted by Mchelly on Sep 8 at 10:35 AM - 52 comments

this is your opportunity to share what you appreciate about the people who comment at metafilter as well as the people who work at metafilter.
posted by aniola on Sep 7 at 1:42 PM - 37 comments

The locked safe from this prior metatalktails has been opened, just a little too late to put the resolution in that post. (Local news link - archive link if you can't access original)

short version if you just want a summary

The safe was mostly empty save some odds and ends and another locked compartment, which was also empty.

What's a story you'd like a update or resolution to? Can be a real life event, a series that you yearn for more of, or a problem you'd like a solution to.
posted by the primroses were over on Aug 12 at 10:03 AM - 34 comments