Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter?

Re:Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter? by iopq on Thursday May 22, 2014 @04:45AM (#7782774)

I try to avoid it because it looks like garbage. Even though the content is good, I feel the site is not authoritative because it looks like some guy's geocities page.

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Re:Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter? by julian_t on Thursday May 22, 2014 @06:43AM (#7783108)

I agree that the design is a bit old-fashioned, but to me sites are about the content, so as long as I can get the information I want without getting a migraine, I'll ignore it. Authoritative comes from content, not looks.

In fact, to me MeFi and HN are about the same, design-wise...

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Re:Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter? by iopq on Thursday May 22, 2014 @08:33AM (#7783469)

Hacker news has a sane color scheme. Ask Metafilter has barf yellow on swamp green.

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Re:Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter? by rhizome on Thursday May 22, 2014 @01:34PM (#7785043)

Sorry to be so blunt, but that's pretty snobby and I would be seriously concerned if Google actually used that criteria.

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Re:Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter? by iopq on Thursday May 22, 2014 @09:25PM (#7787564)

People click on the search result... and hit the back button right as they see the color scheme. This ruins the Google ranking of the site.

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Re:Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter? by odiv on Thursday May 22, 2014 @09:50PM (#7787631)

And people just started doing this mid-November 2012? Or Google only really started taking it into account then?

A lot of people have been giving earnest, authoritative sounding SEO advice, but I don't think anyone really knows except Google.

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Re:Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter? by rhizome on Thursday May 22, 2014 @10:45PM (#7787746)

Right. Meanwhile, gmane and nabble float to the top of the SERPs. Give me a break.

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