Best Of MetaFilter

It's a new MetaFilter tradition, the airing of manifesti!. This holiday season, some beautiful sparkling rants to decorate your curmudgeon dungeon. Thanks, Wordshore! (HT to nickmark for the title)

✨Reminder!✨ Mefi Bingo game is ongoing! Please tag your related posts with MefiBingo2024, so we can enjoy them all! (for convenience, there's an image in the post to refer to, which also links to a larger size for tired eyes).

Photo by Filip Bunkens on Unsplash.com

... to highlight some great recent posts:

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, / And then is heard no more. It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.

The latest Link-Me thread is here

Hey, it's Mefi Bingo! Be cool, get square!

As of November 1, 2024 ... the Metafilter Community Foundation exists as an officially registered Delaware nonprofit non-stock corporation.. Yay! In Metatalk, 1adam12 has a Quick Nonprofit Update from the Interim Board. (Also of site interest, some thoughts from warriorqueen on Seeking community in the face of the US election.)

Photo by Chic Bee, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/80454089@N00/)

Signups are open for the 8th annual holiday card exchange!

Come on over for November's LinkMe thread! Share a link you think would make a good post and put it on someone's radar so they can make that post!

There's a few site updates, the first being news from the interim board on transforming MetaFilter from an LLC to a non-profit.

After that, there's the monthly site update!

Oh hey, the current LinkMe thread is here (for links that are interesting but may not work as a front page post, or beginning point / idea for someone else to make a front page post).

Happy 25th birthday MetaFilter!

We're Old School, we're Vibrant, a Shining Beacon, we're a Time Capsule, a Digital Brigadoon. I guess you could say we are getting a little long in the tooth ... and claw.

• We want to hear from Trans and Non-binary members!

• Bella Donna is seeking interviewees and outlets for a Metafiler 25th anniversary PR pitch. Thank you, Bella Donna!

• If only I had a penguin... points out that our Wikipedia page could stand a bit of editing. Citation: Metafilter Wikipedia Page

Link (Assemblage) (1971) - João Vieira (1934 - 2009) via Pedro Ribeiro Simões on Flickr

A new Link Me post has been forged! Come find a topic to post, or offer your idea for a topic for someone else to post! Thanks, CMcG!

Dear distinguished colleagues, LinkMe: A MetaFilter experiment for posts, is an experimental thread, based on a suggestion by Rhaomi, wherein folks can suggest ideas for posts they don't necessarily want to make themselves, and other folks can pick up the baton on ones that interest them. So put on your lab coats and goggles, everyone — we're trying it out!