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MetaFilter
Who runs MetaFilter, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online community forum alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
Measured from MetaFilter’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit MetaFilter01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs MetaFilter
MetaFilter metafilter.com
Wikidata: general-interest community weblog
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What MetaFilter tracks
We couldn’t read metafilter.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to MetaFilter
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MetaFilter, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read metafilter.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close - 02
The Something Awful Forums
comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka
Very close - 03
Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things
Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...
Very close - 04
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close - 05
Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
Very close - 06
Главная - прикольные картинки, мемы, комиксы, гифки на JoyReactor
Главная страница JoyReactor - это смешные картинки, арты, игровой юмор и гифки (с котами). Но стоит копнуть чуть глубже, и можно найти больше постов и разделов, интересных именно вам, и подписаться на них. Полезно каждый день поглядывать в разделы Тренды и Наши любимые теги на главной странице, можно повстречать много неожиданного и, как минимум, занятного.
Very close - 07
Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You
Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.
Very close - 08
American question-and-answer website
Very close - 09
9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
Very close - 10
클리앙
모두의 커뮤니티 클리앙
Very close - 11
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close - 12
product discovery website
Very close - 13
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Very close - 14
Home — Weasyl
online art gallery
Very close - 15
website for professional and enthusiast programmers
Very close - 16
Experts Exchange | Verified Solutions from Real Technology Experts
Solve your toughest tech problems with expert-verified answers, not AI guesses. 30 years of trusted solutions from vetted professionals. Try it free.
Very close - 17
Chinese question-and-answer website
Very close - 18
American entertainment and social media website
Very close - 19
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Close - 20
Explore - SoFurry
Discover artwork, stories, music, games and more from the furry community. Join SoFurry and share your creations.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MetaFilter’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MetaFilter uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MetaFilter adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to MetaFilter’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577b9814e99630a-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS tanner.ns.cloudflare.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on metafilter.com 20/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- Apple Business · not on metafilter.com 6/20
- DocuSign · not on metafilter.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on metafilter.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on metafilter.com 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on metafilter.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on metafilter.com 5/20
- SendGrid · not on metafilter.com 5/20
- Zendesk · not on metafilter.com 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on metafilter.com 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on metafilter.com 4/20
- Atlassian · not on metafilter.com 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on metafilter.com 3/20