Yes definitely what we needed was more social media: the Ello thread

yeah I'd go back to LJ if everyone else did(it had the friend-feed wall concept waayyyy before FB did for starters) but given its now Russian run who knows how safe it is any more. i peep it v occasionally but haven't posted in some years.

friend of mine went on a tear on twitter lately telling the sad story of LJ's core communities and its depopulation to another friend

I'm long on email and "whatever mobile group chatting service my friends are on" as the social networks that will endure

I'm on here as @drunkdalek

design kinda makes me think of a gawky 90s tphile that says BEST VIEWED IN A 9PT MONOSPACED FONT at the top

Got my invite (I've decided to join, if only to 'park' my name but will see how it goes) but on trying to join, it redlights my password choice no matter what I put in there and won't let me proceed to 'create account'. Whywhywhywhy?

I can't figure out how to post an image
Lol/sob

i've only been able to do it by dragging an image from my desktop into their weird update box.

If you click in the posting box (marked 'Say Ello'), an 'Upload' icon appears underneath the box. You can use that to browse and select images from hard drive etc. As previously mentioned, you can't embed images from other sites.

Got my invite (I've decided to join, if only to 'park' my name but will see how it goes) but on trying to join, it redlights my password choice no matter what I put in there and won't let me proceed to 'create account'. Whywhywhywhy?

That might be because it does not like your choice of user name, particularly if someone else has it.

Still waiting on my invite, but looking at the sample profiles I actually don't like the design so far, it feels very forced minimalist in a way that doesn't actually make it more readable.

Also it seems to lose some of the functionality of fb that is actually good (maybe they will add later?) such as embedding video content.

it feels very forced minimalist

I guess that's a matter of taste, although I think it's hard to argue that it's not much more readable than, say, Facebook. I like the look of it personally, as in I find it attractive (and I've always disliked the basic look of Facebook, let alone with the addition of ads and multiple sidebars etc.). That doesn't mean I'm going to use it though.

I like that it has less clutter, but at the same time I find the spacing awkward and I don't like the typeface, and there's too little use of design elements that might help separate one thing from another. It's very tumblresque, which I guess a lot of people like.

this thing looks like total ass

ty

like, I'm talking an entire, unappealing behind dripping with cracksweat

every eyeless smiley face sticking out like an overripe whitehead

...on an ass?

imagine reading status updates...on an ass

someday, you will

Is the main font Courier? I've always liked that style of typeface. It's personal taste, I suppose. I also like that it's just black and white (and a bit of grey).

I don't like the typeface, it looks like a high school poetry zine

can't wait for november 2014 when nobody gives a shit about this anymore

could even be october 2014

I don't like the typeface, it looks like a high school poetry zine

That may be why I like it (or some similar association).

could even be october 2014

Yes, I see a lot of people joining up but apparently not in a hurry to post anything much.

I think I generally don't like this trend of "hip-looking shit just appearing before your eyes unexplained" in web design, app design, etc.

can't wait for no one to care about this either so i can be myself, maven huffman, in peace.

haha apparently I have broken my ability to post to Ello by trying to post a Youtube link to a braying donkey

I think I generally don't like this trend of "hip-looking shit just appearing before your eyes unexplained" in web design, app design, etc.

I think I kind of understand what you mean. It ties in with what you said about Tumblr, in that a lot of Tumblr blogs aspire to looking sort of plain, but in an 'artistic' way. But if you don't like that, how do you like things to look?

I guess that was a little broad, I mean sometimes that style can look great. I just don't like seeing functionality sacrificed for it. I hate when I can't figure out what button is what on a tumblr page because someone went "minimal"

I certainly agree with that. As an aside, despite dabbling in using it, I must admit I am generally mystified by Tumblr, e.g. the fact there is generally no interaction (at least not publicly visible) between users other than clicking on reblog or like.

Tumblr is really where the Disqus commenting system took off, so maybe you're just looking at the wrong tumblr blogs?

Maybe. I have a Disqus account but I didn't like the way Disqus looked when combined with the Tumblr theme I'm using.

Also, I don't understand why they saw fit not to incorporate commenting into the design, making it unnecessary to fiddle around with something like Disqus.

My chosen username is not actually in use on the site, which is why I want to grab it NOW.

I would totally nab a popular name/company's name now, just in case it does blow up. Then get a bit of cash when you sell it later.

Companies are already exercising rights to deny users names. Clickhole did it to someone yesterday.

I guess if you have a legitimate reason for taking that username and the company isn't huge/public, it'd be easier to pull off?

I think there has been some legislation passed against that sort of thing since the original days of domain name squatting

http://www.nissan.com/Lawsuit/The_Story.php

^ informative read

ok i just posted a gigantic image to the three people who can see it

i always want to be in on the goldrush just to stake out my space but really this looks so eh

what does "noise" mean? noise is a good thing imo, so i am confused

When someone posts too frequently and isn't entertaining enough, you can move them into the "noise" feed so that it won't ruin the flow of your hilariously engaging "friends" feed

dang that's cold!

Someone who understands a lot more about design than me explains why the design is terrible:

https://medium.com/@jvdgoot/ello-a-design-disaster-d53022ab3a62

*farts*

ironically, if this were ello that would signify the equivalent of liking my post

I attempted to post a link to http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com with the tag "looking forward to Ello's inevitable appearance here" but Ello wouldn't let me, lol