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Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by ddellacosta »

deepspace wrote: post #9
jordigh wrote: post #6

> the community blog Metafilter, which is like the civilized version of Reddit. Wait, what? That sounds wonderful, I'm signing up.

Unfortunately you are several years too late. The site and community used to be amazing when Matt and Jessamyn ran the show, but went it started going downhill after Josh Millard took over and is now a shadow of its former self.

How has it gone downhill?

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by glhaynes »

deepspace wrote: post #9
jordigh wrote: post #6

> the community blog Metafilter, which is like the civilized version of Reddit. Wait, what? That sounds wonderful, I'm signing up.

Unfortunately you are several years too late. The site and community used to be amazing when Matt and Jessamyn ran the show, but went it started going downhill after Josh Millard took over and is now a shadow of its former self.

I could probably be convinced that a bit of decline has occurred (though, its a different world with some different priorities/urgencies, too), but "shadow of its former self" massively overstates it IMO.

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by acdha »

deepspace wrote: post #9
jordigh wrote: post #6

> the community blog Metafilter, which is like the civilized version of Reddit. Wait, what? That sounds wonderful, I'm signing up.

Unfortunately you are several years too late. The site and community used to be amazing when Matt and Jessamyn ran the show, but went it started going downhill after Josh Millard took over and is now a shadow of its former self.

You're the second person I've heard make that claim but I don't think it's anywhere near as accepted as you're presenting it.

I personally don't see a quality hit so much as the general decline in all sites which aren't Facebook and when Google chose to cut their ad revenue by ~40% which forced them to lay off moderators:

https://matt.haughey.com/on-the-future-of-metafilter-941d15e...

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by rhizome »

deepspace wrote: post #9
jordigh wrote: post #6

> the community blog Metafilter, which is like the civilized version of Reddit. Wait, what? That sounds wonderful, I'm signing up.

Unfortunately you are several years too late. The site and community used to be amazing when Matt and Jessamyn ran the show, but went it started going downhill after Josh Millard took over and is now a shadow of its former self.

Wow. As a member for 10+ years and a reader for slightly longer, this is a surprising criticism.

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by dws »

deepspace wrote: post #9
jordigh wrote: post #6

> the community blog Metafilter, which is like the civilized version of Reddit. Wait, what? That sounds wonderful, I'm signing up.

Unfortunately you are several years too late. The site and community used to be amazing when Matt and Jessamyn ran the show, but went it started going downhill after Josh Millard took over and is now a shadow of its former self.

Huh? I've been hanging around Metafilter for many years. There have been changes since it ran on a box under Matt's desk, but "used to be amazing" to "going downhill"? Not seeing it. It's still one of the most civil places around.

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by nickpsecurity »

jessamyn wrote: post #2

Hey!

Great, insightful interview. Getting people interested in coming to the library, esp for learning instead of web surfing, is something I wonder about periodically. Local libraries seem to use group activities for young people or rent out conference rooms. One thing going on that you might find interesting is merging libraries with maker spaces. It seems to be getting some results with added benefit of letting people apply their learning in creative, hands-on ways:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/every...

http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/a-librarians-guide-to-makerspaces...

What do you think about this development? And have you noticed any other ways libraries are generating interest that aren't one-off in nature?

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by joezydeco »

deepspace wrote: post #9
jordigh wrote: post #6

> the community blog Metafilter, which is like the civilized version of Reddit. Wait, what? That sounds wonderful, I'm signing up.

Unfortunately you are several years too late. The site and community used to be amazing when Matt and Jessamyn ran the show, but went it started going downhill after Josh Millard took over and is now a shadow of its former self.

I'm a relatively new MeFi user and I think it's still lightyears more civilized than Reddit ever was on it's best day.

It's amazing what competent moderators (and a $5 signup fee) do to keep the noise down.

Re: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

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Post by dang »

vikasg wrote: post #10
jordigh wrote: post #6

> the community blog Metafilter, which is like the civilized version of Reddit. Wait, what? That sounds wonderful, I'm signing up.

While MeFi has its own blind spots, it is definitely one of the nicest communities online because of: (1) $5 fee to sign up. (2) It doesn't believe in absolute "free speech" like Reddit or HN. The moderators will tell you to cut it out.

Good grief! I'm not sure where you got that, but https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=... and https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=false&page=0&date... and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html.
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