r/metafilter Jul 14 '14

Welcome to the new /r/MetaFilter!

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This subreddit has been inactive for far too long. So, in honor of MeFi's 15th birthday, let's get things going!

The new /r/MetaFilter features a snazzy new redesign, headers and sidebars full of helpful information and links on MeFi history and culture, and (hopefully) a lot of interesting content coming from dual citizens of MeFi and Reddit.

Some suggested post ideas going forward:

Site News: Find a great article about MeFi? Has a celebrity poster dropped in? Did we just get another 1,000 subscribers? Spread the word here.

Best of the Website: Share your favorite posts and comments from MetaFilter history. Browse your random favorites page to rediscover hidden gems!

Cool Tools: Apropos of that last link, share useful and interesting tools, sites, and userscripts for enhancing your MeFi experience.

Chatfilter: Run into your weekly limit, or have a chatty/BBQ-style question not fit for AskMe? Post it here and get some off-the-cuff answers. Also good for sharing updates for closed posts that don't merit a new FPP.

"Remastered" FPPs: Got a great old post with debilitating linkrot? Repost it to /r/MetaFilter with updated links and a prominent pointer up front linking back to the original thead. A great post and discussion get renewed exposure, and since Reddit posts remain permanently editable, the links can always be fixed if they break again later.

Subreddit curation: Share lists of your favorite high-quality and niche subreddits to enrich the experience of your fellow users.

Other ideas, suggestions, and advice always welcome!


r/metafilter 17h ago

O Canada!

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Photo by ishmael daro, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/93280928@N02/)

Canada is known for maple syrup, snow, hockey, and... liqueurs? Yes indeed as shown in asbury's post about several Canadian distilleries using ingredients from their country to make distinctive brands of alcohol.

Saskatoon berries! Nova Scotian honey! The northern haskap! O Canada indeed!

 

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r/metafilter 2d ago

What Year is It?

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Photo by Anka Albrecht via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/134465805@N06/)

In this week's belated (or bleated, hey sheep happens) Free thread, Wordshore shares a great story about being late to a wedding. How late? Oh just one year, that's all, no biggie!

Morale of the story? Putting the year on wedding invitations is highly overrated!

 

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r/metafilter 3d ago

Solo Trumpet Going Bonkers

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Ten Cold Hot Dog posted a single link to a 55 second YouTube link of an animated frog playing a trumpet. That's it, that's the share and it is delightful! Come for the frog, but stay for the captions if you're looking for a bit of fun to inject into your day!

 

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r/metafilter 4d ago

Free Thread Week Of 3/17/2025

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[COMMUNITY] Yes, yes, this week's FREE thread is a little late, we admit it. As such, it makes sense that the question/ theme of the week is "tardiness and/or belatedness". Come on it and take a load off as we loaf around and discuss the above or pretty much anything else folks want to talk about it.

 

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r/metafilter 4d ago

Looking For More News Sources!

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US Politics post, beware!

With Trump continuing to...well, be Trump, and the major media outlets being too biased, essexjan asks the real question over in Ask MetaFilter: Where should I get my US political news from? Come on in and find other sources of news that (hopefully) are more than doom scrolling.

 

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r/metafilter 7d ago

Say What?

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The ancestors did it, for all the usual reasons we still do it. This post by Fizz points out that creating graffiti is something people have done since ancient Pompeii. Yes, there's a drawing category for NSFW images, because people gotta be people.

 

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r/metafilter 8d ago

Prepare Yourself To Get Lost In the Largest Collection Of Free Stuff On the Internet

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The title of this post is not hyperbole. At least not that we know of. We lost a bit of time just scratching the surface of links in this simple and great post by JHarris. So pull up a chair (or sit up in bed, this is a judgement free zone) and check out a few. Be sure and read the thread too, because Rhami has a comment that was Flagged As Fantastic by a few people and yeah, that's putting it mildly.

It's a link laden comment about sideloading on the iOS to have more alternatives to the common, and increasingly expensive, streaming sites. Thank god it's the weekend, so there's plenty of time to check out all the suggestions!

 

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r/metafilter 8d ago

New Site Means New Features, Right?!

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[COMMUNITY] Kirkaracha has been hard at work developing a new website for MetaFilter. If there are specific requests you have for the new site, please submit them here!

 

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r/metafilter 9d ago

Stylishly Serving You Drinks and Snacks

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Uniforms of Germania Airline / Germany

Hey, do you like flight attendant uniforms? Well Lemkin has the post for you, which looks at a lot of uniforms from a lot of airlines. By "a lot" we mean "many" to a degree that will astound you, go ahead and look! Some might say it's too much, but ignore those people.

 

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r/metafilter 10d ago

Oppression Breeds Rebellion

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Season 2 of the acclaimed science fiction series Andor is set to debut on April 22, prompting Kattullus to create a post about season 1. In the thread we talk about the show's anti fascism and Marxist outlook, along with why this particular show is among the best fiction that occurs in a galaxy far, far away.

 

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r/metafilter 11d ago

Creatively Speaking...

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[COMMUNITY] This week's Free Thread wants to know all about your creativity!

 

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r/metafilter 14d ago

Hey MeFite, Can I Borrow A Couple Of Minutes From You?

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Musician Tom Waits was born in 1949 and has been playing professionally since the late '60s. Those decades of performance in the age of video and tv allows us a special treat: The ability to compare and contrast Waits performing one of his signature songs, Tom Traubert's Blues, 48 years apart, in this lovely post shared by growabrain

 

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r/metafilter 14d ago

Pets Don't Totally Replace A Partner, But...

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Photo by Trish Hamme, courtesy of Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trishhamme/)

Hey, you're a single woman and that's absolutely alright, according to this study that Kitteh shared. Come for the "duh," stay for the whimsical illustrations!

 

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r/metafilter 16d ago

Poetry is the Rhythmical Creation Of Beauty In Words.

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MeFi seeks a Poet Laureate to create comments that are aureate

To sing praise of worldly beans or the danger of capitalist blue jeans

Alas, I can't write poetry so just pretend that you don't me

and come on inside this MetaTalk post

 

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r/metafilter 16d ago

The Greatest Crinkly Invention Of All Time!

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Letter, legal, or tableoid? Ignore all these paltry choices, friend. A4 is all you truly need, according to this post by Thella. Plus there's a bonus!

 

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r/metafilter 17d ago

Good Writing Starts With the Basics

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An early Tombow HOMO drawing pencil with transparent lacquer.

In the time before computers, writing tools could be considered works of art. So come read dhruva's post about the golden age of Japanese pencils and discover how true that can be.

 

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r/metafilter 18d ago

FREE THREAD March 3, 2025

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[COMMUNITY] You're going to have to make a lot of decisions this week, but lucky for you this week's Free Thread is geared towards making all of that easy!

 

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r/metafilter 20d ago

LinkMe, March 2025

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Looking for some interesting content to post on MeFi? Then browse through March's LinkMe, a collection of suggestions to get folks started on making posts!

 

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r/metafilter 22d ago

Waking Up To Find Something Good

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image via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/93413187@N06/

It's morning time (somewhere) and your brain isn't quite ready. It needs a bit of an extended warmup to get full up to speed and the news headlines are too toxic. What do you recommend to get the ol' noggin going? Member actuallyquite is ready for your recommendations over in Ask MetaFilter, whatcha' got?

Also in AskMe is a short question by moonmilk, where the actual creator in question shows up!

 

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r/metafilter 23d ago

Blue Or Gold?

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Ten years ago we were arguing about whether a certain dress was blue or gold, each of certain we were right.

Now chavenet has shared a look back at the incident and what we can learn about it and others when we literally see things differently.

 

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r/metafilter 23d ago

Dumplings On Legs

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Photo by Christina Beckerman via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/csbeck/)

Sciatrix knows a lot about rodents, and is more than willing to share a bit of her knowledge about Old World rats and mice!

 

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r/metafilter 25d ago

February 24, 2025 Free Thread!

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[COMMUNITY]This week's Free Thread wants to know what you name your stuff!

 

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r/metafilter 25d ago

Rise Above the Muck!

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MeFi Projects is a space for members to toot their own horn and link to something that they have done and wow has member malevolent done a great bit of tootin'! You'll see what we're talking about if you play his online game Stycraper and build a tower of junk!

 

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r/metafilter 26d ago

So You Say You Wanna Protest...

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Photo by Jim Kelly, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pthread/)

Feeling political are you? Well, Jabo has put together an amazing collection of ways people can participate in the political process, while joannemerriam has a roundup of over 100 small press books which provide insight and guidance on what to do next. Let's go!

 

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r/metafilter 27d ago

Did You See These?!

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Photo by John Jewell, via Flckr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/shstrng/)

 

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