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.

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone who searches for information on the web will land on MetaFilter eventually, probably without realising what it is. Nowadays, the web is designer driven, and priority is given to bold headlines, ...

To the millions of people who have frequented it since 1999, MetaFilter is more than a Web site — it’s an icon of an earlier Internet. But this week, as the collective newsboard/discussion forum laid ...

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 ...