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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

Happy birthday, Metafilter

Matt Haughey reflects on running MetaFilter for ten years. MeFi in the early-to-mid 00s was a cesspool; Matt deserves several gold stars for pushing through, somehow making the site better than it ever was in the early days, and turning the site into a thriving business. Over the years as community fads have changed online, people moved from wanting to build their own Slashdot to Gawker to Digg to Facebook to Twitter, but MeFi as a model of online community deserves more scrutiny…people should be trying to make their own MetaFilters but nobody really does.

Anyway, here’s to you and The Blue, Matt. Congrats!