MetaChat - Today I took MeFi off my bookmark button bar

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09 March 2006

Today I took MeFi off my bookmark button bar →[More:]I feel kind of sad, kind of wistful, kind of grateful (because of Metachat, I'm not half as sad as I would have been). I'm just not visiting there hardly ever. And I need the space on my button bar.

It's still in my bookmarks list. I can never end a relationship properly. ~sniff~

post by: WolfDaddy at: 09:08 | 33 comments

Dude, I second that. It's still a tab in my Mozilla homepage, but before it even loads I close it and come here.

posted by tr33hggr 09 March | 09:12

A few weeks ago, I was suddenly unable to visit MeFi from work anymore. I still can't. I was distraught at first but I find that I really don't miss it - except when I'm really bored.

Now if I were unable to get to Metachat from work... *shudder*

posted by mike9322 09 March | 09:14

mike9322, don't even speak the unspeakable. If they ever check my browser files . . . gads, they'll block this place forever.

And thanks for being my first voice mail!

posted by tr33hggr 09 March | 09:15

Well, I'm gonna keep her.

posted by danostuporstar 09 March | 09:16

Me too.

posted by omiewise 09 March | 09:18

MeFi and MeCha are pretty different environments. MeCha is much more laid back, so I love to visit and relax and let it all hang out. But I'd miss MeFi because I learn such a great deal from it, and for the constant snark, sizzle and pop. I've gotta have both.

posted by Miko 09 March | 09:21

I still cruise mefi - but like mike9322 said, when bored. I rarely comment and never post new to the blue. Havent hit meTa in months; askMe fall somewhere in between those two.

Do you guys think people in general are in the winter doldrums, or is it just me?

posted by chewatadistance 09 March | 09:25

I've got a set of feed subscriptions from MeFi, including a couple of tags and a few users, but I rarely hit the main page anymore.

posted by brainwidth 09 March | 09:38

It's been a long while since I sent a FPP to MeFi because of the 'police'.

"Boring!"
"Double Post!"
"Not Good Enough For A FPP!!"

I always do a search before a FPP, but still doubles don't always come up. And how the hell do people remember that something was posted 18 months earlier?

I decided I didn't need the hassle or the criticism, and so have withdrawn somewhat from the blue, although I visit the green regularly.

posted by essexjan 09 March | 09:48

Even I have drastically curtailed my activity on the blue of late. The assholes have taken over. The best people from the Blue are all here anyway and it's a lot more congenial.

posted by jonmc 09 March | 09:50

What miko said. Not to mention the green and grey, which I also enjoy and learn from. I definitely anticipate less criticism when I post here, but it's never been so much about the posting as it's been about the reading for me at MeFi.

posted by amro 09 March | 10:10

I can't even remember when I last read the blue.
I still read askme pretty regularly, though.

posted by kellydamnit 09 March | 10:14

I like MeFi, but of late it seems like it scrolls so fast. I feel like I can never catch up there.

posted by sisterhavana 09 March | 10:15

*grins* I've never read the blue because I have my friends on LJ that I trust to fulfill my "ooh, look at these cool links" needs. And now I have my friends here whom I also trust to send me to neat and cool places.

posted by TrishaLynn 09 March | 10:24

I still pretty much ~~read~~ scan it all every day. But then I like flameouts on meta. Ahhh, schadenfreude.

seriously, though, I'm kind of over askme. It feels like all the good questions have already been asked and answered and the new ones are so specific "Can you help me clean my cat's upper left hand tooth in a specific car wash in Springfield, Illinois?" that they're boring. Or something. Maybe I'm just burned out.

posted by mygothlaundry 09 March | 10:28

I would help you do that, mygothlaundry.

posted by rainbaby 09 March | 10:31

I like MeFi, but of late it seems like it scrolls so fast. I feel like I can never catch up there.

One of the reasons that I'm against NewsFilter and generally shoddy posts is because there are so many posts now, I just can't keep up with them. And if I can't keep up with them—at least speaking only for myself—then in a sense I'm already not reading MeFi and I don't feel engaged and I'm less interested. If that makes any sense.

posted by kmellis 09 March | 11:05

I still read MetaTalk and AskMe daily. I might read MeFi once a week or so.

posted by deborah 09 March | 11:07

What's the difference between MetaTalk and MetaChat?

posted by TrishaLynn 09 March | 11:26

come back all of you (but only to play nice)! There are all sorts of cool new people--some really cool.

AskMe never answers my questions well at all : (

posted by amberglow 09 March | 11:34

there are so many posts now, I just can't keep up with them.

I agree with you -- and it's not just due to NewsFilter, either. My problem during the last couple of months is that there have been so many good posts that I can't read all of them. There are high member numbers and lots of activity now. AT some point, the size of the membership will reach a tipping point that changes the type of interaction available.

It's possible that a sizeable percentage of the new membership will get bored and drop away, but hard to predict.

posted by Miko 09 March | 11:35

What's the difference between MetaTalk and MetaChat?

Hehe, they do sound similar, don't they? One's a kitten and the other's a wounded tigress furry protecting her cubs with snarks and torches.

posted by danostuporstar 09 March | 11:46

You don't need protective gear for MetaChat.

posted by Miko 09 March | 11:56

except for maybe a prophylactic.

posted by taz 09 March | 11:58

I can only read MeFi at work if I use NX to access a Linux box in research I have access to. It's enough of a pain (though better than running X on my PC) to limit me to once or twice a day, at most. And when I do, it's mostly AskMe rather than the blue. MeCha isn't blocked, for some reason (knocks on wood), but I'd come here anyway.

posted by tommasz 09 March | 12:12

"Can you help me clean my cat's upper left hand tooth in a specific car wash in Springfield, Illinois?"

...and the award for the best sentence EVAR goes to ... mygothlaundry!

*polite audience applause ensues*

posted by WolfDaddy 09 March | 12:22

Is there a way to get an RSS feed from MetaTalk of only the meetup category?

posted by matildaben 09 March | 12:40

Oh, and I never did read the Blue that much unless someone called my attention to something specific there; I was always more of a Green reader. But these days the Green is boring and repetitive and people are bitches there. The only thing I read on the Grey is meetup threads, which I love dearly. But the coolest people are over here.

I do still use Metafilter as a utility for the following things: seeing what lat/long people live at, and seeing who links to who.

posted by matildaben 09 March | 12:43

The Green is going through a nasty spell lately, for sure. Too many answers reflecting an adolescent view of life. Not sure whazzup with that, but it does detract.

Like I said, I'm hoping they'll get bored and go away.

posted by Miko 09 March | 14:03

I read MeFi, but I skim. So I'm back to the level I was at when I started reading back at the beginning of 2003 but before I joined at the end of 2004. I went through a phase of "must get my $5 worth!" Now it's just another thing aggregated for me by LiveJournal. If I see something, I'll click on it. I've even stopped checking MeTa for meetup pics the way I used to. I only hit AskMe when referred, because things scroll too fast there, and I'm way too mouthy with my opinions to be of any constructive use. I try to pipe up only if there's something related to sleep research or another area of (relative) expertise that I feel qualified answering (I check the tag for "sleep" mostly).

posted by Eideteker 09 March | 14:12

You're not missing much today.

posted by togdon 09 March | 15:48

What's the difference between MetaTalk and MetaChat?

The Hate Quotient.

posted by AlexReynolds 09 March | 22:38

I inadvertently made someone want to quit MetaFilter today. I'm part of the problem.

posted by ColdChef 10 March | 00:08

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