This is a list of major events or milestones in the history of MetaFilter, along with the corresponding announcements.
| 1999
|
| 14jul1999 | First MetaFilter post
|
| 2000
|
| 03mar2000 | MetaTalk launched
|
| 2001
|
| 22jan2001 | The origin of 'pony requests'
|
| 15may2001 | The first use of '.' in an obituary thread
|
| 20may2001 | Is it possible that Kaycee did not exist?
|
| 06aug2001 | Matt and MeFi go on vacation
|
| 20aug2001 | Vacation is over
|
| 24aug2001 | Thread "9622"
|
| 12oct2001 | Posting limited to one per day
|
| 20nov2001 | "we have cameras"
|
| 2002
|
| 09may2002 | Pepsi Blue
|
| 26jul2002 | Signups reopen, limited to 20 per day
|
| 29jul2002 | Threads over 1 month (30 days old?) are closed
|
| 01aug2002 | WHAT. THE. FUCK. MATT?
|
| 05sep2002 | "the toy broom... it vibrates?"
|
| 06nov2002 | Matt contemplates closing or selling the site.
|
| 08nov2002 | Signups closed. Last user #17318. Metatalk reference to closure.
|
| 12nov2002 | Metafilter threads get titles. Fixed link for mathowie's explanation.
|
| 2003
|
| 05jul2003 | The Metafilter server moves from apartment to apartment
|
| 08dec2003 | Ask MetaFilter launched (First Question)
|
| 12dec2003 | Matt first discusses Askme posting-limit ideas
|
| 2004
|
| 01apr2004 | User signups reopen, 20 per day
|
| 13jun2004 | supposed you killed somebody...
|
| 15jun2004 | Contacts are launched
|
| 12oct2004 | First anonymous Ask question
|
| 18nov2004 | Five dollar signups begin
|
| 14dec2004 | Askme 7-day posting limit first implemented, then also for MetaTalk
|
| 2005
|
| 12jan2005 | Metatalk thread closure added
|
| 18jan2005 | Tagging added
|
| 24jan2005 | jessamyn becomes second admin (MeTa)
|
| 10feb2005 | Best Answers added to AskMe
|
| 16feb2005 | HURF DURF BUTTER EATER
|
| 17feb2005 | AskMe gets titles & tags & more fixes, temporarily breaks anonymous questions
|
| 20feb2005 | Flagging added
|
| 17apr2005 | Anonymous posting returns
|
| 08oct2005 | AskMe questions stay open for a year, instead of closing after a month
|
| 08nov2005 | Projects launched (First Post)
|
| 12nov2005 | Mushroom Thread
|
| 15nov2005 | Matt wields the BanHammer against dhoyt; and highsignal, hall of robots and jenleigh.
|
| 2006
|
| 09feb2006 | Titles appear on the page, rather than in the HTML header - Mefi & AskMe.
|
| 10may2006 | Favorites added
|
| 30jun2006 | MetaFilter Music launched (First Track)
|
| 24aug2006 | MetaFilter Jobs launched (First Job)
|
| 22oct2006 | IMG tag disabled
|
| 18dec2006 | Askme posting limit changed to 14 days
|
| 2007
|
| 03jan2007 | (NOT RACIST) debuts
|
| 01feb2007 | New URL scheme implemented (number/title rather than mefi/number)
|
| 13feb2007 | Metatalk gets titles
|
| 16feb2007 | Podcast #1
|
| 28feb2007 | cortex becomes third admin (MeTa), & deletion reasons get signed by the mod
|
| 02apr2007 | HI I'M ON METAFILTER AND I COULD OVERTHINK A PLATE OF BEANS.
|
| 06apr2007 | Askme limit returned to 7 days
|
| 06jul2007 | A preview of TravelFilter is announced during podcast 11
|
| 14sep2007 | Subtle but major HTML vulnerability discovered and subsequently repaired
|
| 19oct2007 | MeFi Mail private messaging system implemented
|
| 23oct2007 | Close Your Account functionality implemented (aka The Big Red Button). Matt discusses it a month later.
|
| 02nov2007 | Contact activity sidebar launched
|
| 08nov2007 | Meetup threads stay open for six months (earliest reference I could find)
|
| 16nov2007 | Extensive discussions about sexism (see also Boyzone)
|
| 12dec2007 | note: Everyone needs a hug.
|
| 31dec2007 | The Givewell affair
|
| 2008
|
| 10mar2008 | Startling revelation that a banned member has been around for years under a different name. Longest MetaTalk thread in Metafilter history.
|
| 18may2008 | Vacapinta becomes fourth mod, the first not based in the United States.
|
| 27may2008 | Projects switches to public comments, something that had been requested a couple times at least.
|
| 30jun2008 | Boing Boing's "Unpublishing" of Violet Blue
|
| 29aug2008 | Sarah Palin as McCain's Running-mate thread created, eventually becoming the longest thread in Metafilter history.
|
| 16Oct2008 | Deleted threads made visible to the poster. This was rolled back at a later date (probably early 2009) for performance reasons.
|
| 27oct2008 | Posting sends out an automatic form letter with links to those posts, "an easy way for people to find their own posts in case of deletion, appearance of lagging posting due to caching, or other mishaps."
|
| 17dec2008 | Three minute editing to comments announced with a "beta-test".
|
| 2009
|
| 24jan2009 | A spammer/cracker exploits a SQL injection in some old pages. MeFi is down for about 4 hours, unstable for most of the weekend, and MetaTalk isn't back until Monday.
|
| 10apr2009 | First episode of the Metafilter Music Podcast
|
| 05may2009 | Tenth anniversary meetup subsite launched
|
| 12jun2009 | mefi.us utility domain goes live
|
| 07jul2009 | Edgar Martins photoshopping outed; followup post
|
| 10jul2009 | Metafilter store launches, with new t-shirts.
|
| 14jul2009 | Tenth anniversary MetaFilter post
|
| 13aug2009 | Infodump relaunches, with more data
|
| 20aug2009 | cortex announces month-long meetup junket
|
| 11oct2009 | "Interest areas" profile feature launched and unlaunched again after criticism.
|
| 01nov2009 | Favorites behavior is modified for a one month test; followup discussions
|
| 12nov2009 | mathowie's pituitary tumor revelation and a promising update
|
| 20nov2009 | User #100,000 raffle raises over $12K for charity.
|
| 18dec2009 | Updated "recent activity" feature launched
|
| 2010
|
| 08jan2010 | Data loss destroys a day's worth of askme answers, some of which are manually recovered.
|
