MetaFilter Reviews and details

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• Building ColdFusion for the Web

  Metafilter still runs on ColdFusion https://metafilter.com. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• I got my accounts wiped. Here is how.

  How would I use traceroute? I tried "traceroute metafilter.com" which showed these 4 hops:. Source: over 1 year ago

• April 13, 2022 Site Update

  The way it should have been handled is cortex should have just announced the new owner "the new owner is so-and-so, they begin to be in charge Friday the Xth, direct all communications to them now." Perhaps "metafilter.com" should just be retired and they start up a new site with better features (any features, you know, blocking, etc). Things are lost off the internet all the time. I greet everyone "who were you... Source: about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge?

  Check out Metafilter. It’s pretty good for that kind of stuff. http://metafilter.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• TIL That Betty White hosted a five-and-a-half-hour long live talk show six days a week from 1949 to 1953.

  The /r/science subreddit is decent, metafilter.com is sometimes a noteworthy aggregator. I have seen a lot of inconvenient-news sorts of things show up on The Guardian, although I've heard them increasingly criticized along some axes. Of course there's the /r/covid19 subreddit here that has only the most sciencey of science news here. The /r/medicine subreddit is a good place to gauge medical industry impact. ... Source: about 3 years ago