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Contents 1 Metafilter Resources 2 Good Things on Metafilter 3 Side Communities 4 Software & Extensions 5 Metafilter Media 6 Metafilter Analyzed 7 Metafilter history 8 Miscellaneous Fun

Metafilter Resources

• Metafilter FAQ - key MetaTalk threads
• Metafilter statistics - growth of traffic
• Metafilter Contribution Index - statistics by poster

Good Things on Metafilter

• Metafilter Distilled via archive.org
• Metafilter Remixed - a collaborative filter for good MeFi threads
• MetaMeta: a second sieve collects good threads
• Best Comments based on favorites received, as of April 2010

Side Communities

• mefi-projects - mailing list for announcements of projects of interest to other MeFites (see SelfLink) (now closed, but archives are still available)
• MeFi Swap - quarterly music mix exchange with other MeFites
• #mefi - an internet relay chat channel vaguely related to MetaFilter.
• 9622.net - a weblog frequented by many MetaFilter users.
• On the NationStates game there is a place called MetaRegion for all MetaFilter players. It tends to be filled with discussions of kittens and pancakes and their relative worths.
• metachat is a side site for metafilter members who want to chat about random stuff that dosn't have a place on metafilter proper.
• Folding@Home Team - contribute to find cures for diseases by donating your spare CPU cycles. Join the MetaFilter team and we can all keep score!
• Kiva - Team Metafilter - Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty. Join Team Metafilter and make a loan today.
• Volunteer MeFite Portrait Photographers - A list of MeFites (organized by location) who have volunteered to do free portrait photography for any local-to-them MeFites who need better photos of themselves for OKCupid (or whatever).
• Ravelry: Metastitcher - A Ravelry group for Metafilter knitters and crocheters.

Software & Extensions

• Greasemonkey Scripts and Plugins
• Bookmarklets

For Firefox:

• Metafilthy - although it is buggy

• Search Plugins:
  • AskMetafilter

• MeFi Navigator - adds easy options for jumping through a members comments within a thread. Also highlights your posts, posts by the original poster, and posts by the admins in MetaTalk.

• MeFi Page at Userscripts.org

Metafilter Media

• Metafilter, a great weblog - Christian Science Monitor ("Welcome to MetaFilter.com - specialists in Assisted Serendipity.")

Metafilter Analyzed

• Metafilter: a profile in successful community building & organizing - from bshort
• Derek Powazek discusses Metafilter - from frayed
• Harshing on Metafilter - Nick Denton

Metafilter history

• MetaFilter in Review ReFi, where cortex and dios review the early days of MetaFilter
• kaycee-nicole saga (wayback archive)
• The Kaycee Nicole (Swenson) FAQ

Miscellaneous Fun

• metafiltr MetaFilter 2.0, a "portal into the riffy, self-reflecting underbelly of MetaFilter proper" created by cortex
• MeFi user sites reviewed by jessamyn and OmieWise
• MetaFilter-esque engines - a list of some open source engines that you can use for your own collaborative weblog wesbite. See also SimilarWebsites and MeFiClones.
• Metafilter taglines - collected nominees. More details about Taglines.
• Spoonfed's MetaMetaFilter (archive.org link) - the best MeFi parody ever, rescued from history. The page that sparked the cult thread 9622.
• Metafilter front page post generator
• mefi-o Metafilter bingo
• which Metafilter user are you most like?
• y2karlulator - untangles heavily anchor-tagged posts. Enter thread number.
• SongAboutMetaFilter
• lucien's MeFi miscellany - another collection of resources
• Two short comic strips about MetaFilter comic 1, comic 2
• MeFi roulette - forwards to a random MeFi user profile
• An interesting look at the distribution of posts made on MetaFilter according to their user number (and thus, registration date).
• Map of MetaFilter by EndsOfInvention