ShadowyBackAlleys

This is a list of MetaFilter oddities; files, old pages, stalled projects, weird corners, and shadowy back alleys from various dead-ends in the site's evolution.

The shadowy back alleys of MetaFilter:

Functions & Features

• badday - Log of a painful hard drive upgrade.
• LoFi
• 100 random MeFite websites
• Donate to MeFi
• Google Earth KML File (Instructions on using MeFi KML with Google Earth)
• Social Explorer - Where else do MeFites hang out?
• TextAds are phased out.
• Close Your Account. This is the page you see when you click the link at the bottom of your profile.
• Mobile MeFi for your portable devices. [Note: following this link will force your device to start using the mobile format, which might look weird on larger screens; delete the "MOBILEDEVICE" cookie to go back to normal]
• gopher.metafilter.com - November 2000 - June 2001
• Download/export your comments (relevant MetaTalk post)
• Ask MeFi Interest Areas (shows the most frequently occurring Ask MetaFilter tags on questions you have answered)
• Members Area (Members Only jacket required.)
• The Sidebar, before it was Powered by Blogger or wevs.
• Content of the Sidebar as a stand-alone page.
• The Sidebar Archives
• Browser Check
• MeFi is getting a massage. You don't want to see this page, ever.
• Javascript Required!
• Read-only mode. A new feature of server migrations.
• Random post redirects - Mefi, AskMe, MeTa, Music, Projects, Jobs.
• Go to a random post, comment, or post or comment chosen from the items that you have favorited.
• Feed of final updates to long-closed Ask MetaFilter questions.

Fun Stuff

• Shop MeFi - $$
• Newer MeFi Mall - (ca. 2009)
• Kottke header and footer
• Give the gift of MetaFilter
• Capital and Stratification within Virtual Community: A Case Study of Metafilter.com by Quartermass
• The Best Posts of August, 2006 (3/day)
• The MetaFilter Scholarship Fund (2001)
• MetaFilter's Style Sheet (um, and another one?)
• dios vs. rothko fundraiser
• MetaFilter Redesign Contest
• MetaFilter goes on vacation.
• MetaFilter.com is 2 years old!
• Custom Baseball Shirts
• Happy Birthday mathowie Polka! (See MeTa thread)
• The Print PDF
• 2010 - The Year in MetaFilter Infographic

April Fools

comprehensive listing at April Fools

• April Fools! (year?) There is no spoon...
• April Fools! (2007)
• April Fools! (2008)

Stats

• MeFi Labs: An experimental subsite introduced in January 2014 designed to contain experiments and interesting ideas. Includes 2013: The Year in MeFi Stats among other statistical and aggregated information.
• MetaFilter statistics: Infodump (includes stats on posts, comments, favorites, contacts, and users). Some analyses using the Infodump can be found on the MetaAnalysis & Infodump and Excel pages.
• MetaFilter corpus: Corpus (a collection of language data about Metafilter, intended as an adjunct to the Infodump). Metafilter Corpus - Frequency Tables.
• Web Server statistics for MetaFilter ca. Feb. 2002, Mar. 2001.
• Warning: This page labeled zipcode data might crash your browser.

Images

• The moderator spammerwatch interface.
• Google Analytics says
  • 77% of people visiting MeFi use Windows (as of September 2008, via)
  • more Firefox than Internet Explorer users (as of December 2007, via)
• Sirens (Beacons)
• 2010: The Year in MetaFilter traffic stats infographic by mathowie

Defunct links

• TravelFilter was an experimental AskMe offshoot that never got off the ground
• User Word Clouds
• MarkovFilter - Come again?
• Banned For Life
• Banished won it
• Profile Photos - What do MeFites look like?
• Recent Twitters - Say what?
• Recent Flickr Uploads - Say cheese.
• Recent LastFM Tracks - Sounds good.
• MetaFilter Taglines (MetaFiltr)
• taglines.gif (image, MeTa)
• The Jabber Server (defunct)
• Says Who? - Think you know your mefites? Try your hand at the Metafilter identification game (see MeTa thread)
• Metatalk thread closure status by month and per thread. (MetaFiltr)
• Flag Distribution (MetaFiltr)
• Threads containing at least one comment consisting solely of a single '.' character - (MetaFiltr)
• Your very own Gold Star
• Katrina Relief corner link
• Mattcupid/Siren dizzyingly put to use in this MetaTalk thread.
• What MetaTalk looks like for the mods.
• MeFi is On Notice.
• Vestiges of an April 1 buyout.
• SpookyFilter
• MetaFilter: more addictive than crack.
• MetaFilter: Now wasting 12% more work time.
• I voted and it totally sucked.
• Initial image of MeFi user locations KML file from this introductory MeTa thread.

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