Well, PokerFilter never really went away but I did do a redesign and upgraded the software. Best of all, I’ll be posting regularly again.
The original idea had been to copy* the feel of MetaFilter, a popular link posting website. The only problem is that MF is a custom program written by Matthew Haughey so I couldn’t just grab something off the shelf. I was able to find some folks who tried to do a knockoff but it appeared that development had ended some time time ago and updates were infrequent at best. I hacked up this software as much as I had the time and patience to but eventually I became very frustrated with it. That combined with the fact that I was doing 99% of the posting vs. my original goal of making it a community driven link site and I had to give some thought about what PokerFilter should actually be.
The first idea was just to kill it off and just do more newsy postings along with my normal stuff here on this blog. I may still do that but I think PokerFilter has a nice sized audience of folks who like to read a human edited version of poker news/blogs and so for now I’m going to continue giving that its own place.
Anyway, go check ‘er out and ping me with any feedback.
*The intent wasn’t to rip off MetaFilter. Matt posted links to the knock-off software package and seemed to enjoy the compliment offered by their imitation.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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Great work Bill, pretty good and clear new design ;).
Very sexy Bill, nice work!!