MeFi 2010
January 5th, 2011
The year 2010 at MetaFilter Infographic.
Two thoughts:
- I'm astonished at the proportion of the site's traffic that goes to AskMeFi. It's not a part of the site I ever visit.
- A nice anecdote from Matt Haughey's post about compiling these stats:
In the past few years I've been contacted by representatives at some major companies sniffing around for acquisitions, but when they find out the moderation and maintenance of the community is all done by hand and we have to talk to thousands of people like grown-ups instead of some amazing whiz-bang python script doing it all for us, the conversation ends and we go back to work.
January 5th, 2011 at 00:11
Huh. I have both regular MeFi and Ask in my RSS Reader, but I spend much more of my time reading Ask questions.
January 4th, 2011 at 23:27
On the odd occasions when I've dipped into AskMeFi none of the first couple of pages of questions that I've seen have been either a) answers to questions that I had, or b) questions to which I could provide a useful answer. Perhaps I just picked the wrong day to browse AskMeFi.
Since clearly I'm missing out on something, I've just added the AskMeFi feed to NetNewsWire; we'll see what comes up.