By the way, on the challenges page, the current challenge is very hard to read with the plain text theme.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 9:31 PM on July 2, 2008

B, but I would prefer it in two columns.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 6:45 PM on June 17, 2008

Maybe it would be easier, like somebody suggested long ago, to put the first time FPPs into an approval queue?
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:11 PM on May 12, 2008

another Mefite who happens to be a chef

If you're talking about Madman, I think he's in Bangalore.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:09 PM on April 15, 2008

I might be in Canberra around that time, but can't say for sure yet.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 3:04 PM on February 24, 2008

Yeah I'm still in Canberra. If you canberrites (?) want a repeat meetup, I'll gladly make it. (I'm here for another 15 days, bees willing)
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 4:52 PM on March 18, 2008

damn it. I'm going to miss TWO meetups at the same time!
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 11:02 PM on March 10, 2008

In a related request, how about automatically linking pdf files with PdfMeNOT?
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 3:06 PM on February 21, 2008

Gmail calls those emails that you want to track as 'Stars'. But I guess a star is too loaded a word as well around these parts.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 8:32 PM on February 14, 2008

I think snarky comments are fine as long as they are not among the first few, since they can so easily derail the conversation.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:21 PM on February 12, 2008

What happened to Contacts' favourites?. Has it vanished or moved somewhere else?
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:27 PM on January 29, 2008

thanks pb...I'll just bookmark that link for now.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:38 PM on January 29, 2008

nah: it wasnt arha...she's a friend of mine...who's not even a lurker ...but i send her links all the time
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 5:46 PM on November 11, 2007

Well, yeah, she was in the mood for just sitting back etc etc, so no harm done. :)
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:59 PM on November 11, 2007

I reckon the only way a writer's group would work on Mefi is if it was part of Mefi. Somehow. A bit like Music.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 5:29 PM on November 5, 2007

How about this: A member makes a new story/piece/whatever (Maybe there should be a word limit of some sort, or even a link to a blog where said piece is presented). Then the rest of the subsite would operate more or less along the same lines as the rest of MeFi i.e., people comment/critique/favourite. It probably won't get much traffic, and given Matt's reluctance to implement this as part of MeFi...I don't know if it'll be feasible.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:39 PM on November 5, 2007

Well, the most successful iteration of the Writers group here had only a handful of members, so I don't think volume will be a problem. A lack of volume might be one. And if there are themes to write on, then the volume is likely to be even lower/constant. And I'm firmly of the opinion that it was the blog format that felled the previous two attempts.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 3:59 PM on November 6, 2007

stavros: I reckon Metafilter and its subsites have become so big that there is a need for something like this. A filtered view of Metafilter, so to speak.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 9:45 PM on November 5, 2007

I'm going as Miguel.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 8:20 PM on October 30, 2007

I did it for the first time last year, but wont this time. Damn thesis keeps getting in the way.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 4:41 PM on October 23, 2007

It's pretty much a hardwired rule of Metafilter: if you say that you like X, many many people will come along to say that X is crap.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 6:31 PM on October 14, 2007

heh.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 6:40 PM on October 14, 2007

I'm keen. Either day should be fine. Of course, unless something dramatic happened at the last meetup which seems to have reduced the rest of the sydneysiders to silence.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:16 PM on October 8, 2007

Not a bad idea. Abandoning the Alfred. I mean. I recommend the Lord Nelson near the Rocks, but Newtown should be more fun.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:58 PM on October 8, 2007

Thenk you :).
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:15 PM on October 9, 2007

I kinda agree with Stavros: the problem with favourites being a dual purpose thingy is that even though I know that maybe somebody is just bookmarking them, I instinctively give more attention to any comment with a favourite, and in cases like this, it is annoying.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:20 PM on August 28, 2007

Nah. I'm right here. I'll probably turn up.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 8:15 PM on August 20, 2007

8 is fine with me...but i´m staying in Londres, and hopefully I´ll find a map of the city that i can use to get to wherever this Normandie is. I guess it can´t be far, and maybe i´ll just have a channel to cross :)
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 4:34 PM on August 12, 2007

I reckon I´ll walk . Just to reconfirm, the normandie, 8pm, and I´'ll be the indian (de India) guy speaking bad spanish. For the love of god, somebody please put a card or something saying MeFi, I've previously had the totally demoralising experience of asking random strangers if Metafilter meant anything to them...
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 1:30 PM on August 16, 2007

I got a photo up here.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 6:44 PM on August 19, 2007

I reckon the reason the previous attempts didn't pan out so well was mostly because of the interface... and because it was essentially separate from MeFi. And cortex, neither projects nor music or even Jobs for that matter get posts all the time, so the amount of posts is no argument against a subsite.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 8:07 AM on May 5, 2007

Thanks, melissa may,
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 7:06 PM on March 11, 2007

but need to find or buy a camera-usb cable

What is with you Aussies and not finding cables...
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 10:27 PM on March 11, 2007

heh. It wasn't me, I swear.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 11:52 PM on March 11, 2007

Sounds good to me, but I'm sure it will be raining that weekend :)
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 4:26 PM on March 4, 2007

So where exactly do we meet? Hyde park fountain?
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 5:10 PM on March 4, 2007

If we're looking for old fashioned pubs along the Rocks, I recommend the Lord Nelson. Since I live in Marsfield and it takes atleast an hour to get back home from the CBD, I hope you guys decide on someplace in the city instead of some god forsaken holiday town halfway to Jervis Bay just for the sake of a meat pie :)
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 4:57 PM on March 5, 2007

Fine, then. Since the Alfred is fast becoming MeFi HQ down under .... And since I know my way there, it's fine. I propose we meet at the Alfred and then wing it.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 3:16 PM on March 6, 2007

I'm wavering as well- much as I like the Alfred, I'm getting a bit bored with it :)
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 5:57 PM on March 6, 2007

Just to show that I've actually for some unknown reason read this far, I wish to add that there are lots of Koreans in Eastwood (Sydney) as well.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 5:33 PM on January 4, 2007

I suggest that the order of questions on the page be randomized on each refresh.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 6:38 PM on January 3, 2007

I would also suggest that a small area where you can leave messages for a user would be nice. User deletable comments.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 3:52 PM on December 6, 2006

In askme, I recognize Melissa May, Scody, occhiblu but thats more on the content than the language structure. Eriko, loquacious, Ethereal Bligh and delmoi in Mefi.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 8:57 PM on November 29, 2006

Thanks for the update about your offline life, nickyskye. I too was wondering about your disappearance. I wish you good luck with you health.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 8:06 PM on December 3, 2006

Sorry, you lose as well. We had TWO people in the second Sydney meetup.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 2:54 AM on November 18, 2006

I vote that Newsfiltery posts (if any) be held to a higher standard than the regular posts.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 5:08 PM on November 8, 2006

Lamer than references to googlefu failings?

Lamer than appeals to the 'hive mind'?
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 10:12 PM on October 25, 2006

The invasion of the cam people has long been one of my favourites, but I don't know if it's mefihistory.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 9:15 PM on October 15, 2006

I have no idea ....I didnt even click the link :)
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 11:09 PM on October 15, 2006

Most of the history worthy stuff I remember seems to be in MetaTalk, which doesn't have tags alas. The Monkeyfilter and Metachat threads were in Metatalk.
posted to MetaTalk by dhruva at 11:11 PM on October 15, 2006