TFA == "The Fucking Article"
And nice means "mean or small-minded", and silly means "saintly", and terrible means "inspiring terror". Or at least they used to -- but usage evolves over time past etymological roots.
"TFA" is indeed a back-formation from "RTFA", which is the online-forum equivalent of the aggressive and obnoxious acronym "RTFM". But it contains no verb; and in online discussions there's a sort of a hole in our language for an efficient way to say for "the article currently under discussion". So it quickly lost the aggressive and obnoxious connotations that RFTA has.
As such, I think "The Fine Article" is an expansion more fitting with its evolved usage.
Re:Vitamin D, part 3 – The Evidence
by DoreenMichele on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:32PM
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Although that's what I originally learned it to mean -- from a horribly toxic online space -- some people use TFA to mean "The Featured Article" aka "the article under discussion."
> How can we reconcile promising early observational studies linking Vitamin D to most major causes of death with our current results? One thing that seems increasingly clear is that in most cases low Vitamin D (truly low Vitamin D) is a marker of poor health rather than a cause. Vitamin D is made in the skin after exposure to sunlight. A chronically ill, frail individual may leave the house less often, leading to lower Vitamin D levels. Fixing the Vitamin D will not fix the chronic illness.