ShadowyBackAlleys

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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. There's a ton of cool nooks and MeFi-related projects off the site too, but this list concentrates on stuff hosted at MetaFilter.com (with the good exception of cortex's MeFi 2.0 research hub MetaFiltr.

The shadowy back alleys of MetaFilter:

Functions & Features

• Travel
• LoFi
• 100 random MeFite websites
• Donate to MeFi
• Google Earth KML File (Copy link to Google Earth)
• Profile Photos - What do MeFites look like?
• Social Explorer - Where else do MeFites hang out?
• Recent Twitters - Say what?
• Recent Flickr Uploads - Say cheese.
• Recent LastFM Tracks - Sounds good.
• User Word Clouds
• 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.
• gopher.metafilter.com - November 2000 - June 2001
• Download/export your comments

Fun Stuff

• MetaFilter Taglines (MetaFiltr)
• taglines.gif (image, MeTa)
• MarkovFilter - Come again?
• Shop MeFi - $$
• 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)
• The Jabber Server (defunct)
• MetaFilter's Style Sheet (um, and another one?)
• April Fools! (year?) There is no spoon...
• April Fools! (2007)
• April Fools! (2008)
• dios vs. rothko fundraiser
• MetaFilter Redesign Contest
• MetaFilter goes on vacation.
• MetaFilter.com is 2 years old!
• Custom Baseball Shirts

Stats

• MetaFilter statistics: Metafilter Infodump (includes stats on posts, comments, favorites, contacts, and users). Some analyses using the Infodump can be found on the MetaAnalysis page.
• 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)
• Initial image of MeFi user locations KML file from this introductory MeTa thread.
• Web Server statistics for MetaFilter ca. Feb. 2002, Mar. 2001.
• Warning: This page labeled zipcode data might crash your browser.

Images

• Your very own Gold Star
• Banned For Life
• Banished won it
• Katrina Relief corner link
• Mattcupid/Siren dizzyingly put to use in this MetaTalk thread.
• SpookyFilter
• MetaFilter: more addictive than crack.
• What MetaTalk looks like for the mods.
• MetaFilter: Now wasting 12% more work time.
• MeFi is On Notice.
• Vestiges of an April 1 buyout.
• I voted and it totally sucked.
• The moderator spammerwatch interface.
• Google Analytics says 77% of people visiting MeFi use Windows.

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