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A community weblog running since 1999 where members share the best thing they found online today, with thoughtful threads underneath each post.
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MetaFilter sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: The other directories, random buttons and curated indexes. We are one of these; it would be dishonest to pretend the others are not worth your time.
Yes. MetaFilter is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use MetaFilter without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file MetaFilter as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
Hand-curated index of several thousand active blogs, sorted by subject, for when you want writing rather than a feed.
A plain list of personal websites, each added by its owner. Pick any name and you land on somebody's homepage, built exactly how they like it.
Hand-listed index of useless websites, sorted into categories so you can choose your waste of time rather than roll for it.
A daily leaderboard of new apps, sites and gadgets, upvoted by the people who make and use them. The place to spot a tool before everyone else does.
Multi-model forecasts with a meteogram showing how confident the models actually are, which most weather apps quietly decline to admit.
Name every station on a city's metro map from memory, and find out how many lines you use daily without ever reading.
Around 140 visual phenomena, each with sliders to break the effect and a vision scientist's explanation of why you fell for it.
Factory building crossed with tower defence: conveyor belts feed the guns, and the guns hold the line while you fix the belts.
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