Podcast appearances and mentions of matt haughey

Show DescriptionMatt is here to talk about creating the perfect fantasy CMS for blogging, moderating comments at Metafilter, building sane defaults into programs, how difficult the web is, do we want AI in our CMS, and where is content headed on the internet? Listen on Website →GuestsMatthew HaugheyGuest's Main URL • Guest's TwitterA writer with over 25 years of experience building products. In that time I've worked as a designer, coder, company founder, and senior writer. Links Matt Haughey Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily. MetaFilter | Community Weblog MovableType.org The story of b2, b2evolution and WordPress Ghost: The best open source blogging platform Micro.blog A Whole Lotta Nothing Notes from migrating 24 years of blog posts from WordPress to Ghost Ideas for my dream blogging CMS Embrace the weird The newest episode of Search Engine is incredible Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it's fine - The Verge Sponsors

Matt Haughey, founder of Metafilter, explains how he got scammed. Also: Mark & Matt review the Internet in 2018. Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Matt Haughey" - "Your comments" The Raffeys - "Big Brother" - Eep Snörpsh Now https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/83345

Matt Haughey, founder of Metafilter, explains how he got scammed. Also: Mark & Matt review the Internet in 2018. Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Matt Haughey" - "Your comments" The Raffeys - "Big Brother" - Eep Snörpsh Now http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/83345

Matt Haughey flips the first pancake. We talk about clothes, and cars, and coke, so much coke for a movie about going to the prom. The levels are all over the place as we reacquaint ourselves with the modern art of sound editing.

Alex Goldman is the co-host of Reply All. “I am not the authority on the internet. I’m not an expert on particularly anything, except stuff that I like.” Thanks to MailChimp, Squarespace, and Blinkist for sponsoring this week's episode. @AGoldmund Goldman on Longform [01:30] "Long Distance" (Reply All • Jul 2017) [01:30] "Long Distance, Part II" (Reply All • Jul 2017) [02:00] "This Website is For Sale" (Reply All • Dec 2014) [02:45] TLDR [05:15] metafilter.com [05:15] Matt Haughey on Stoner [06:00] ”How Do I Get a Job at NPR?” (Metafilter • 2009) [08:15] On the Media [11:45] "Stories Pitched by Our Parents" (This American Life • Feb 2010) [13:30] Radiolab [15:30] "Quit Already!" (Reply All • Dec 2015) [17:45] "What Kind of Idiot Gets Phished?" (Reply All • May 2017) [18:00] "Black Hole, New Jersey" (Reply All • Jun 2017) [21:00] "Storming the Castle" (Reply All • Feb 2017) [21:15] "Shine on You Crazy Goldman " (Reply All • Nov 2015) [29:45] Death, Sex & Money [31:30] StartUp [33:45] Serial, Season 1 [35:00] "The Cathedral" (Radio Lab • Dec 2015) [35:00] "All Shipped to Timbuktu" (Reply All • Jun 2015)

Usually, at 18-year-old online community MetaFilter, a U.S. presidential election year means a big increase in heated political discussion. But once a victor is declared, and the transfer of power occurs, things go back to normal. Not this time. The 2016 presidential election – MetaFilter’s fifth – has created a situation where, six months after the election, they are still dealing with far more political discussion than they would normally be seeing. For a community that isn’t focused on politics, this is an incredible burden on moderators and has “measurably affected both the distribution and tone of discussion,” according to owner Josh Millard. It has become the election year that will not end. We also discuss: MetaFilter’s recent ownership transfer from Matt Haughey to Josh Member suicide deaths and the impact they have had on the community How MetaFilter has addressed casual sexism, racism and transphobia Our Podcast is Made Possible By… If you enjoy our show, please know that it’s only possible with the generous support of our sponsor: Higher Logic. Big Quotes “‘How did this happen? How did we not know? Is there something we could have done?’ [Suicide in an online community] can leave people rethinking their assumptions about the place as a community. You stop and think, ‘This person, who was a long time contributor here, it turns out that they were suffering. They were really not doing well, and we didn’t know.’ Or maybe, there were signs. [They left] comments that they were maybe struggling a lot lately, but we didn’t really know to do something. We guessed that something was up, and then this happened. That can be really challenging. That can be really emotionally devastating to find yourself second-guessing your relationship with that person.” -@joshmillard “As much as we’ve been getting steadily better on [casual sexism and misogyny at MetaFilter], in general, it has remained an incremental process because you have to get people on board. You have to set that expectation, you have to do education. You have to teach people to question things that they had taken for granted previously and that includes things like, who is impacted when you’re just joking? Who actually takes the brunt of your disinclination to re-examine the stuff that you learned in middle school? It’s very step-by-step. Every once in a while it feels a little three steps forward, two steps back, because you can’t teach everybody and new people join and some people come out of the woodwork and something sets someone off. Even when people are trying, it’s really easy when you’re dealing with discussions of isms, in general, for someone to have a fairly defensive reaction to being told that they’re doing something, even if their intent is reasonably good, even if they aren’t a real jerk.” -@joshmillard “The last thing we want [at MetaFilter] is to say, ‘Good enough. We’re pretty not sexist, we’re pretty not racist. Everybody just chill. I think we found a good compromise.’ It’s going to keep being a thing. It’s going to be an ongoing, difficult effort because that’s how improving at this stuff works.” -@joshmillard About Josh Millard Josh Millard is an artist, musician, programmer and generalized weird-creative-stuff-maker from Portland, OR. Josh is the owner and manager of the 18-year-old web community MetaFilter, where he’s worked for the last ten years as a community moderator. Related Links Sponsor: Higher Logic, the community platform for community managers Josh’s website MetaFilter, an 18-year-old online community, where Josh is owner and manager Patrick’s South by Southwest 2018 proposal, based partially on past episodes of the show about IMDb, closing communities and Photobucket’s hotlinking change Community Signal episode with Matt Haughey, MetaFilter founder, where we discussed how he stepped away from the community Community Signal episode with Jessamyn West, former director of operations at MetaFilter, where she talked about how MetaFilter could have dealt with LGBT and gender issues better than they did “mathowie Transfers Ownership of MetaFilter to cortex” by Josh about MetaFilter’s recent ownership transfer “Sixteen Years” by Matt Haughey, about his decision to move on from the day-to-day management of the community, passing the baton to Josh LobsterMitten, a MetaFilter staff member MetaTalk, a section on MetaFilter where members discuss site-related topics “Where I’m Off To” by Jessamyn West, about her decision to leave the MetaFilter staff “The Road Ahead” by Jessamyn West, also about her exist from the staff “Help Build MetaFilter’s Savings” by Josh, asking the community to contribute financially to MetaFilter’s future. The comments of this post include criticism of the financial side of the MetaFilter ownership transfer “holdkris99’s Death Was a Hoax” by Josh, about the fake suicide that occured on MetaFilter years ago “A Member of Your Online Community Lies About Committing Suicide: What Do You Do?”by Patrick “RIP Bill Zeller” by Matt Haughey, about the suicide of MetaFilter member null terminated Wikipedia page for Eternal September, which we discussed on the Community Signal episode with Howard Rheingold FanFare, a section of MetaFilter for entertainment discussions Josh on Twitter Josh’s paintings Josh’s retro game programming work Transcript View transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be so grateful if you spread the word and supported Community Signal on Patreon. Thank you for listening to Community Signal.

[Matt Haughey](https://twitter.com/mathowie) never touched weed as a teen, despite being a competitive BMX rider in Southern California. He didn't smoke any weed in his 20s either, busy founding [Metafilter](http://www.metafilter.com/) one of the internet's first collections of "cool shit people find on the internet." By the time he was in 30s, Matt was curious to try marijuana but didn't know anyone who had any. Finally, a decade later, legalization came to the West Coast and he set off for Washington State to acquire some weed so he could smoke his first joint, age 42. We talked about the lack of beginner's weed-smoking information on the internet, touring elementary schools and churches performing in a D.A.R.E. BMX show, and why he gave Metafilter away after 16 years.

Jessamyn West is a member of mlkshk, an online community that’s closing. She’s part of a community-led effort to build the next place where this group of people will get together. Best known for her work in the library space, she’s also an experienced online community practitioner, having spent 10 years on staff at MetaFilter, leaving as director of operations. Building on our recent discussions about the thoughtful way to close a community, we look at mlkshk as an example of a group that has done it right. Plus: The differences and similarities between dying and being banned from an online community Why it’s easy for community members to love new ideas, but hard to get them to commit to helping make them real The disconnect between wanting to be a moderator and actually being good at it Big Quotes “One of the things that happens with hobbyist communities, as opposed to giant corporate communities, is the person who’s running it has to kind of love being there as one of the primary things in their life.” -@jessamyn “I like to joke that I’ve created 20, 30, 40 online communities just by banning people, where they get mad and they say, ‘I’m going to create a new community.’ I’m like, ‘Okay. That’s fine. Create your own thing. That’s great. We just can’t do that thing here any longer, because it’s not what we’re about.'” -@patrickokeefe “For some people, I really do feel like the internet kind of flattens who we are to a certain extent. Not in a negative ‘the internet isn’t real’ way, but just in a ‘the internet can’t tell you certain things about people you interact with, and some of those things may matter’ way. It’s hard to say it without sounding really judgmental.” -@jessamyn “It’s so important for [some people] to not be judgmental about personality problems that you wind up with people who are borderline sociopaths, who are unmoderatable, just because people are like, ‘Well, that’s just how that person is.’ You’re like, ‘Well, how that person is, is that they harass female Wikipedians.’ You’ve got to make a choice, right? You just have to make a choice.” -@jessamyn “If you make a decision to leave [our community], that’s your choice, and maybe you’ll come back. You’re welcome, even as a non-member, to talk to us about what the issue is. But for people within the community, they’re like, ‘The goal is that nobody leaves.’ To me, that’s like saying the goal is that nobody dies. Sure, that sounds like a good idea at some level, but realistically, if nobody died, there would be huge problems and, if nobody left the community, you would wind up with a stagnation that would be difficult in its own way, that the community is not supposed to be everything to everyone.” -@jessamyn About Jessamyn West Jessamyn West is a librarian and community technologist who writes a column for Computers in Libraries magazine. She consults with small libraries and businesses in Central Vermont to help them use technology to solve problems and runs a regular drop-in time to help digitally divided people use technology. She is the author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide and is a frequent public speaker at library conferences throughout North America. She has a library newsletter and a blog. Related Links Jessamyn on Twitter Computers in Libraries magazine, which Jessamyn writes for Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn’s book MetaFilter, an online community where Jessamyn was a member of staff for 10 years, resigning as director of operations TILT-Y MAIL, Jessamyn’s librarian-themed newsletter librarian.net, Jessamyn’s blog David Lee King, digital services director at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, mutual friend of Jessamyn and Patrick Community Signal episode with David Lee King Nashua Public Library, one of Patrick’s libraries as a kid Community Signal episode about the IMDb message board closure with Timo Tolonen Community Signal episode with Gail Ann Williams mlkshk, an image sharing community Andre Torrez, application engineer at Slack and founder of mlkshk Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter, who works in editorial at Slack Amber Costley, design lead at Begin and founder of mlkshk “Beloved Image Sharing Site mlkshk Saunters Off Into the Sunset” by Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch, about mlkshk’s plans to close in 2014 Post from mlkshk’s blog about why they didn’t shut down in 2014 Discardia, a book by Dinah Sanders, that provides “a flexible, iterative method for cutting out distractions and focusing on more fulfilling activities” Josh Millard, who currently runs MetaFilter Paul Bausch, known as pb on MetaFilter, who previously served as the community’s sole developer and technical administrator Greasemonkey script that enables you to see, on MetaFilter, who has been marked as a librarian by Jessamyn Ask MetaFilter, the community’s question and answer section “mlkshk Shutting Down”, about the site’s forthcoming closure GitHub, a development platform where some current members of mlkshk are collaborating to build the next place they will hang out at “holdkris99’s Death Was a Hoax” by Josh Millard, about a MetaFilter user who faked their own suicide Community Signal episode with Matt Haughey, where we talked about the fake suicide “A Member of Your Online Community Lies About Committing Suicide: What Do You Do?” by Patrick, which Jessamyn left a comment on Wikipedia page for Godwin’s law LearnedLeague, the online trivia league that Jessamyn is a member of “Jeopardy! Contestant Who Died Before Show Aired Keeps Win Streak Going” by Keith Allen for CNN, about a former member of LearnedLeague LearnedLeague’s in memoriam page, created at Jessamyn’s suggestion Community Signal episode about managing a cancer community with the online community manager of Breast Cancer Network Australia’s online community Details about MetaFilter’s “brand new day” policy, which allows banned members to return ColdChef, a MetaFilter member who is a third-generation undertaker and funeral home manager Jessamyn’s consulting website Jessamyn’s personal blog Transcript View the transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be grateful if you spread the word. Thank you for listening to Community Signal.

An exploration of the cultural shift that began with a leisure space of idle chatter and led to some of our most productive modern work environments being deliberately designed to make space for play. With special guests Matt Haughey of Slack and MetaFilter, Audrea Hooper of Zappos, and Andrew Sinkov and the conference rooms of Etsy HQ.

The evolution of MetaFilter: this week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Matt Haughey, the founder of MetaFilter, the collection of sites and communities that Paul describes as “one of the real success stories of the web.” The conversation covers Matt’s early career at Pyra Labs, the accessibility of digital technologies, his current job as a writer for Slack, and how if you spend enough time publishing online, you’ll inevitably attract the attention of two groups — trolls and lawyers.

Matt Haughey is the creator of MetaFilter, and the co-creator of Fuelly, among many other sites. He spends his free time shooting photos and also rides and races bikes. These days, he works on the editorial team at Slack.

Matthew Haughey is a programmer, web designer, and blogger. He is the founder of MetaFilter, the PVRblog, and Fuelly, and is the publisher of the long-running weblog A Whole Lotta Nothing. Original Air Date: March 9, 2010

This week Myke is joined by Matt Haughey. They talk about Metafliter's past, it's troubles with advertising, accidental crowd-funding and the site's future. Make sure that you stick around to the end of the show for a big announcement.

Matt Haughey founded MetaFilter, a well-moderated forum for discussions about interesting things that expanded to also answer questions. At just a few months over 15 years old, it's a veterans of many Internet lifecycles. In the last couple of years, however, MetaFilter began to face an existential challenge, which we'll talk about in this episode, along with its history, nature, and future. Sponsors & patrons This podcast is made possible through the support of sponsors and patrons. Thanks to our sponsor, Harry's: A great shaving experience for a fraction of the price of its competitors. $15 gets you a set that includes a handle, three blades, and shaving cream shipped to your door. Use coupon code DISRUPT for $5 off your first order. We've started a new kind of ad: "indie ads"! If you're a solo creator or small firm, we're offering discounted short ads with the kind underwriting of Cards Against Humanity. (CAH just launched a site where you can buy directly from them, including their Bigger Blacker Box and their 2012 and 2013 holiday packs, the profits from which are donated to charity.) Thanks also to patrons Bryan Clark, Rönne Ogland, and Mike Mansor for supporting us directly through Patreon! You can back this podcast for as little as $1 per month. At higher levels, we'll thank you on the air and send you mugs and T-shirts! Show notes Atex was the first digital composition system, used widely in the newspaper and magazine world into the 1990s, when PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and other software superceded it. Matt worked at Pyra Labs on Blogger for a short stint in its early days with Ev Williams, Meg Hourihan. We mention Tim O'Reilly, a publisher and thinker who invested in Blogger and a number of other interesting early-stage ventures. He founded Global Network Navigator (GNN) in 1993, which was sold to AOL in 1995. He is part of O'Reilly Alphatech Ventures. David Carr, the New York Times' media critic, used the terrible, terrible term platisher to refer to Medium, which is a combination of a platform and a publisher in a recent article. An OC-12 line is up to 622 Mbps of throughput. MAE-West was once the major interconnection point for ISPs on the west coast. The MAE stands for Metropolitan Area Exchange. In 1995, I wrote "The Experiment Is Over," about the how the National Science Foundation was shutting down its contracts for NSFNet, because commercial organizations could now directly operate the Internet backbone. A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a virtualized instance of an operating system running on a host alongside potentially many others, each of which is allotted guaranteed amounts of CPU usage, storage, and the like. VPSes are just like running a virtual machine on one's own computer, but designed for efficiency and reliability. Glenn uses Linode, which recently switched all its drives to SSDs and doubled many system parameters. Digital Ocean is slightly cheaper (it used to be much more so). Amazon EC2 is another alternative for rapid scaling. After years of pictures of cats in scanners, MetaFilter set up cat-scan.com to house those and its memories. BREAKING! Cat-scan is dead and its file lost forever! BREAKING! File were found and it's fixed. As you were. The community at Ask MetaFilter produces some remarkable answers. A poster asked for help deciphering coded messages her grandmother on index cards before she died in 1996. Within 15 minutes, there was an answer. Andy Baio asked about an image he used a decade ago for the soon-to-be-revived Upcoming, and Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza had an answer four minutes later. Einstein probably didn't tell a story about "no cat," but it's an interesting history of where the apocryphal quote came from; and my original Google Answers query, for which I was willing to pay $15 if someone had an accurate reply. Jessamyn West is part of the lifeblood of the interesting part of the Internet. Matt blames his PVRblog for the rise of content farms. On Medium, Matt explained MetaFilter's Google search and AdSense predicament. But the good news is that even after we recorded this episode, donations continued to pour in. They've now received about $40,000 in one-time donations and a commitment of $10,000 per month in recurring ones. That monthly figure is about one-third of the site's Google ad revenue, and thus a good cushion against future drops. (Photo by Chris Ryan.)

A couple weeks ago, Matt Haughey, the founder of TLDR's favorite website, Metafilter, announced that his website is dying. And he says it's because Google algorithmically stopped directing traffic to the site over a year ago. Alex tries to figure out what you do when Google's algorithm decides it no longer likes you. Thanks for listening. If you like our show, please subscribe to us on iTunes. Or you can follow PJ and Alex and TLDR on Twitter.

Dan is joined by Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter and briefly Glenn Fleishman to discuss what it truly means to run a business. Links for this episode:5by5 | The Pipeline #6: Matt HaugheyDan and Matt discuss the MetaFilter community, controlling a website's growth, starting up a business without taking investment, the recent PVRblog sale, the personal life (or lack thereof) of a developer and community builder, blogging about your personal life, and more. PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviewsMetaFilter Podcast | Community WeblogMatt Haughey (mathowie) on TwitterA Whole Lotta NothingSponsored by Less Meeting (use the code DANSENTME5 for 10% off).

Colin Marshall sits down in Portland's Slabtown with Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter, the most civilized community on the internet, co-founder of Fuelly, and creator of several other sites as well. They discuss his escape from San Francisco's "goofball startup culture"; what it means for MetaFilter to be "civilized"; his desire not simply to create "a safe place for people to yell past each other"; the importance of keeping personal identity out of debates; the strange backend provided by MetaFilter's question-and-answer service Ask MetaFilter; the second-most popular Ask MetaFilter thread of all time, Colin's own "What in life did it take you a surprisingly long time to realize you've been doing wrong all along?"; the strange popularity of questions about how to talk to girls, relate humanity, and/or live life, also known as the "forever alone" series; what it takes to become one of MetaFilter's ten worst users, drunk on power or stupidity; the hyperarticulate sourness that makes bad comments on MetaFilter especially bad, and how it leads to users pre-emptively armor-plate their sentences; Portland as a setting for the simple life, but also the good one; advertising's domination of internet business models, and the bite mobile browsing even now takes out of that; who's actually clicking those ads that ostensibly support everything; the benefits of living down the long tail, and of executing difficult-to-describe ideas that are therefore difficult to replicate; where to shut yourself off from the net in Portland, be it on a bike or at a food cart; and how a Portlander can possibly react to a kid on a unicycle, in a Utilikilt, playing a bagpipe, topped with a Darth Vader helmet.

Matt Haughey of Metafilter and his wife Kay split household chores right down the middle, except when it comes to garbage duty.  Does the person taking out the trash have "garbage hands" that are only suitable to replace the trash bag and deal with all matters dirty?  Judge John Hodgman decides!

Writer Paul Ford (a.k.a., Ftrain.com) joins Kevin and Deb to talk about the Egyptian revolution, whether Arianna Huffington is a tummler, and the ultimate question of the entire Internet: Why Wasn’t I Consulted? Paul on Twitter: @ftrain Quote of the Week: […]