MetaFilter is a news and discussion site dating back to the early years of the web. Founded in 1999, it’s attracting attention this week after coming forward about how a Google penalty has severely ...

Jessamyn West used to describe Metafilter as a social network for non-friends, a description belied in part by the tight-knit camaraderie that emerges in an online group of only a few thousand people.

Is Google broken? Or is your site broken? That’s the question any webmaster asks when she sees her Google click-throughs drop dramatically. It’s a question that Matt Haughey, founder of legendary ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Matt Haughey talks about why Facebook is like AOL in the ‘90s, and the best and worst developments in online ...

In 15 minutes, Metafilter cracked a family secret that had gone unsolved since the '90s On Monday, Metafilter user JannaK asked for the Internet’s help in solving a decades-old family mystery. In 1996 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The message thread reads like the play-by-play from an alternate reality game, ...

There are few sites on the internet that continue to be wonderful years and years and years after they’re first created. And guess what, folks? Metafilter.com is definitely one of them. Where do I ...

What Google gives it can take away. Startup founder Matt Haughey learned the strength of the search engine's power the hard way. He created the community blog MetaFilter in the late 1990s, grew it ...

Granted, this is a pretty goofy chart, with tongue firmly in cheek. But back up: Behind the jokes, there’s serious information in there about who uses each service and how the users see themselves — ...

Two weeks ago Daniel Drucker went to Metafilter with a request. "My father passed away this morning," he wrote. "I'm going through his file, and I came across JOKES.TXT ... which contains only the ...