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What The MeFi BIPOC Board Does

CompassCompass by Walt Stoneburner (cc by)

In Metatalk, "MetaFilter’s Global BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Advisory Board wants to share some context and plans with MetaFilter at large," including Big Picture, scope, background, and future.

11/29/22
by taz

Twitter as a Utility

Twitter iconTwitter icon by Jurgen Appelo (cc by)

... what ends up happening is you need more and more people to manage smaller and smaller things ... Wow! Very interesting insider comment from wooh on the scale challenges and other issues that have steered the engineering side of Twitter.

11/02/22
by taz

The TVA Archive in our timeline

screenshot of the TVA archive

So, let's talk about the TVA Archive for a bit. If you think it looks familiar, you may have seen it before ... In FanFare, radwolf76 has some great trivia and background about the actual physical setting of the TVA (Time Variance Authority) archive in the Disney+ Loki series.

06/22/21
by taz

COVID-19 UPDATES

MeTa: Check-in thread

MeFi Wiki: ThereIsHelp Resources

MeFi: Modeling the outbreak, Real-time visualizations, Rumor control

AskMe: Managing anxiety, managing travel, getting good information, Meal Planning for the Pandemic

Mefi IRL: IRL now has an "Online" category for virtual meetups

FAQ: We've added a site FAQ for Coronavirus posting and commenting tips, as well as site help and resources

Chat / FanFare: We've opened a "Watch" room in Chat for those who'd like it for livewatch events

[This post is being updated as new posts / features are added]

03/09/20
by jessamyn

Can I Vote?

VoteVote by H2Woah! (cc by-nc-nd)

lampshade has been collecting voter info resources for the US elections. Handy!

08/29/16
by taz

New profile page visibility options

dip dip dip, my blue ship, sailing on the water like a cup and saucer, o-u-t spells out ;-)dip dip dip, my blue ship, sailing on the water like a cup and saucer, o-u-t spells out ;-) by *Psyche Delia* (cc by-nc)

Members are now offered a couple of new profile page preference choices: the ability to make their "Contributions" and "Social" fields visible only to logged-in members, and the ability to enter their geographic coordinates without this info being visible. See all the details in this Metatalk post.

01/26/16
by taz

NGP VAN inside scoop

BEWARE of DOGBEWARE of DOG by kennymatic (cc by)

You can mark houses visited/not-visited -- were they not visited because nobody was home? Scary dog? (literally has a spot for "scary dog, can't go to door") Do the same people still live there? Is the house on the market? Does the house have a foreclosure notice? It highlights if someone in the house has turned 18 since the last election -- do they still live there? Are they registered to vote?

Eyebrows McGee offers some first-hand insights on how the NGP VAN database works for candidates and and campaign workers.

12/21/15
by taz

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MetaFilter started as a community weblog in 1999, later added question and answers, then music by members, jobs, projects by members, a podcast, and finally an area dedicated to meetups.

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