UIs that accidentally preserve memories

Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories by dsnuh on Saturday May 19, 2018 @12:30PM (#17108550)

I joined Metafilter in 2002, and although I no longer use it as my main source of content discovery, I do love to go back now and again. It's always been a top notch community, and if you haven't ever spent some time on the site, I highly recommend it.

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Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories by AlexCoventry on Saturday May 19, 2018 @07:27PM (#17110292)

I still read it and scan through maybe five comment threads a week for insightful perspectives, but I no longer participate because the community is toxic and mind-killing these days. To me, at any rate.

Edit: IB4, "Metafilter: Toxic and mind-killing, these days."

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Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories by Sangermaine on Saturday May 19, 2018 @07:46PM (#17110368)

Do you mind explaining why you think so? That's a pretty surprising perspective; the community often has intelligent discussions about a range of topics.

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Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories by jstarfish on Sunday May 20, 2018 @03:02PM (#17114266)

There came a point around 2010 where too many posts and threads were being dominated by militant nitpicking feminists, with an occupying force of transgendered cat ladies.

I have no dog in the feminism fight but metafilter quickly devolved from a community garden into a special interest forum concerning matters of the vagina.

I just peeked at the top few articles on main page for nostalgia's sake. Already I see an article concerning toxic masculinity, and another of a game exploring rape trauma. Not much has changed.

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Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories by AlexCoventry on Saturday May 19, 2018 @08:14PM (#17110465)

Yes it does, as long as the discussion doesn't veer into political questions, which can happen in surprising and dismaying ways at times.

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Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories by dsnuh on Saturday May 19, 2018 @09:00PM (#17110588)

But I find that to be true of every online forum I can think of, HN is no different.

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Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories by AlexCoventry on Saturday May 19, 2018 @09:30PM (#17110657)

No, explicit personal attacks are generally frowned on, here.

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Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories by dsnuh on Saturday May 19, 2018 @10:56PM (#17110927)

I haven't found that to be generally acceptable on Metafilter, but again, I haven't really frequented since the mathowie days.

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Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories by AlexCoventry on Sunday May 20, 2018 @03:10AM (#17111617)

That was a long time ago.

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