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

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

I gather noise is like ILX's killfile

"noise" kind of seems like "people I will not defriend but only check their feed if I'm really really bored" which makes sense to me as a feature. I have a feeling facebook's newsfeed algorithm overthinks things and probably creates feedback loops with seeing certain people's stuff while letting me entirely forget about other people.

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

How is this any different from the "unfollow" (nb: not unfriend) function in FB? I already have a reasnoably large list of "friends" whose posts I pretty much never see on my FB feed because who wants 237846785648935 posts about puppies to be rescued from pounds/puppies beaten by their owners/OMG SAVE ALL THE PUPPIES. Not to mention the compulsive "post six youtubes a day" music fiends.

I'm hardass with FB. I have only ever blocked one person, and defriended maybe 10, the rest I simply unfollow, and add to a filter so when I post they dont see my posts, so for all intents and purposes to them, I dont use FB (jokes on you, you boring meme posting hippies).

ello.co

2014-2014

haha

What Was Ello?: A Symposium

fuckin' ello sending me earnest messages about their monetary philosophy when they still haven't given me an invite, smh

Someone on my FB feed today liked an AFP post informing all and sundry she's on ello now. Says it all really.

yeah got same today, do not have invite yet, feel like I'll be getting a "goodbye" e-mail before I ever get one

Guys, pm me I'll get you invites

do you have guess papers as well?

fuckin' ello sending me earnest messages about their monetary philosophy when they still haven't given me an invite, smh

lol same

um, yes?

Xpost

Hey everyone! Am I late?

http://img.ifcdn.com/images/99c80658004ac516991918fc63fcd207664ea5f937e73e91a0a9fcf6f0b66400_1.gif

I'm starting to see ello talk on my FB again...is the renaissance imminent?

I haven't discontinued the emails yet, so I know they just implemented emojis! That must be what's kickstarting the renaissance. :P