In fact, here's a link to the instagram photos of a typewriter shop I hang out at.

Did you go to the annual type out event on Saturday?

That looks really neat - I know there are hidden gems around Atlanta - I should find them.

I did! And I came in second in the speed-typing contest!

Good idea. I vow to do the same. Like the postathon that tps initiated a while ago.

Would it be a good idea to post a metatalk to draw attention to our postathon? Or would that be bad form?

I'm not sure -- there's no official connection to MetaFilter so somebody might get cranky if we did.

I could totally see someone getting cranky if you post it on the grey.

I asked Jessamyn whether this would be bad form. Since she's a mechite as well. :-)

She responded very fast. It should be okay although there may be some naysayers. Who dares?

(In the NL we always say 'nay'. And 'yah' just like the British royal family apparently. Phonetically that is.)

Jessamyn actually suggested a Metatalk post about Metachat in a recent Metatalk thread (the one about Metafilter Chat).

I dared. Post is in the MetaTalk queue.

Post.

Wow. I'm sorry to say I didn't realize MeCha was still active at all. Thanks for the MetaTalk post, and good job me for remembering my password!

Look everybody, we got one!

Just a note, folks - did someone message Gaspode about the metachat post? I think she is the only currently active admin, and last I knew, was approving new user signups. If the post on MeTa attracts people who don't already have an account here, there may be an approval backlog. Also, I think it's just a good thing to let the admins know they might have an uptick in site activity to keep an eye on.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Hey, this thing still remembers me!

Joepie!

It only took me four tries to remember my password after all this time. Hooray!

I can look up passwords and help with things if anyone wants to email me (in profile). I can't guarantee how fast I'll get back to you though.

Oh, yay!

you know, I do check in here multiple times a day, but I find in the last few years, I have very little to say. I have no idea why! Maybe I should commit to being more verbose.

I find in the last few years, I have very little to say.

I feel the same! Oddly, because for so long, there was so much to say. I guess maybe I got most of it out, or maybe things like that come in waves throughout life. I find this is true in life as well - I just don't have as much need to jump in on discussions.

It looks like I can reset passwords too, if this is needed.

I also seemed to have less to say, as my feeling of familiarity with the more vocal posters waned. That's a fancy way of saying that the people I felt like I knew, weren't around, so I felt less inclined to be around or chatty. I still do check in sometimes! I'm often very late to any posts though :-(

anyway, I can help with password resets!

I mean, I'm pretty sure I know what my issue is --> facebook. I don't want to repeat myself. Back in the day, if I had something to rant about, I'd come here. Now I go to facebook.

I should really switch that up again, yeah? Yeah. You know you want more of me grumping about things in your life.

Maybe it's Facebook? In part? But I find my FB participation has really, really fallen off in the last year or so. Also, I have never posted as much, or at such length, or as intimately, there as I have here. At least in my view, I don't think it's taking over the web so much as that there are so very many more choices of places to be and things to do on the web. I use Twitter and Instagram avidly. read blogs on Feedly, read longform and on Medium, etc, and am back on MeFi after about a 10-month break. Also, I'm generally just trying to spend less time online. That hasn't been easy since school and writing projects have kept me at my desk a lot this past year, so it's all to easy to click around for a break, but I am starting to feel so allergic to screens. i really want to be outside these last few months. To an almost physically yearning degree.

I'm certainly not an expert (this being maybe my seventh comment here) but it seems like a site like this needs a critical mass. I think most people don't keep up with their blogs and eventually give up on them because they know nobody is reading them. I always liked the idea of MeCha, so I hope it can be revived.

nice to see some new and old names-- hi folks! : )

Yeah Miko, I mean everybody's MMV, obvs. I don't use Twitter at all and I'm just starting to use instagram more, and that's for silliness. I just mean the brain dumps, the things I used to put here, I put on FB now.

Most of the problem is that I became FB friends with many metachatters! Redundancy.

Hi Pips!

I agree with Pips; hi all!

Holy, I had to blow the dust off my username before I could log in.
Last comment: April 12, 2012.
Where the hell did that 3 1/2 years go?

Delighted, languagehat! Jon says hey, too--

(Hi jouke-- :)

(I just "friended" a couple folks on facebook-- still figuring out how to use that thing, sadly-- :/

Facebook is good for some things, but I really don't want to get all my online socializing in one place. Sometimes I just want to hang out in a specific setting with its own special focus and flavor, without getting distracted by everyone else I know plus world news and whatever all. Facebook groups and so on just don't feel particular enough.

Tangentially related: I miss the era when lots of people kept blogs/online journals full of personal musings and "boring" details of their lives, rather than thinking you needed an essay topic to put text up online. I'm much more interested in my friends' personal details than in links and reactions to links, you know?

Maybe I was wrong to bail out of Facebook immediately. Because now there doesn't seem to be much else left. Hm. Well I'm going to do the postathon. Not because I'm positive that it will make a permanent difference. But just as a gesture for the hell of it.

There's something about reading old online threads that makes me realise that with online communities people generally don't say goodbye. We slowly start commenting less and then stop.
Maybe it's better for human interaction to be volatile. Real world interactions inherently start to fade as soon as they happened due to the nature of our memory.
Maybe that's better; not to be able to see what was lost.

Or maybe online communities like mefi and metachat just don't suit me. There's a certain alienation. Due to the distance in language, geography and timezone. On top of it being just text...

Hi tangerine. Grts from the NL.

Thanks, jouke. And everyone else. It's good to hear from all of you.

Tangentially related: I miss the era when lots of people kept blogs/online journals full of personal musings and "boring" details of their lives, rather than thinking you needed an essay topic to put text up online.

Yes! I was thinking that myself a while back. Now it's either essay topics or sponsored posts or some crap.

I really don't want to get all my online socializing in one place.

I'm the same way. Also I don't really want my worlds all colliding. I like having my private life in my private life, and there's some overlap, but I really don't want complete overlap, nor do I want to be forever tweaking FB settings with tweezers like you have to do to filter as you wish. It just all feels not that important. Even Facebook now, which used to feature people doing more chatty things and talking about their day, is now almost exclusively shares of links, pictures, or memes. Some of which are entertaining, but in the end it feels like reading kind of a chaotic online magazine, only some of which is personal. Irritating as I find it, though, I can't feature being off of it entirely, since I need it for my job and use it to work with community events and plan and invite people to events and meetings and stuff. It's virally infected everything.

with online communities people generally don't say goodbye. We slowly start commenting less and then stop.

True for sites as well. I have seen a few smaller friend-group blogs go this way. A few are still sitting out there, zombified. I have to admit that idly I'd been fully expecting someone to email some day saying that we needed to pay a MeCha hosting bill or otherwise invest in the place, and that'd have been the cue to form the second line, have a party and turn out the lights. But it hasn't happened to my knowledge (I may just not be in the loop, no reason I should), so either someone is quietly footing those bills, or the site is so small and old and under the radar that there aren't any bills.

Rick and Morty. You should all be watching it. That is all.

I'm so busy at work and life basics that I usually have nothing interesting to say.