I never knew what SNA was! I was thinking it was another one of those shadow boards.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
sooooone1 notice how all of today's top singles are dance, urban, and/or teen bop?
is this because america is shit?
― The Once-ler, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
also I remember when everything sounded more white. even the hip-hop
― The Once-ler, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:48 (eight years ago) link
after the last round of john v. paul, ilm's credit rating was downgraded and austerity is in force :(
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
also something about mexicans not having diverse music taste
― The Once-ler, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
I think my continued attempts to keep the Classical Music You Buy From Boomkat thread going are scaring people away. Sorry.
― djh, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTd54695IrM
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
^Went looking in vain for the Like button on that post
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
You couldnt hear our metallica party? :( - pplains cranked the volume way up hoping for noise complaints
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
i'm on a facebook music group during the day. i like it better than here now. a lot of my real world friends are on it and a lot of my ilx friends too. i mostly look at ilx out of habit.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
now playing or another one?
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
yeah, now playing. that's my spot. i need my daily dose of andy zax. who doesn't?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link
ile is absolutely not as busy as ever, its nothing like as busy as ever
ilm was a bad idea and I'm.surprised it lasted this long
"see this music? it's shit""no its good""sound"
― irl lol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:25 (eight years ago) link
I started reading ILM when it was only ILM around here. You would have hated it.
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:31 (eight years ago) link
d otm, there's no accounting for taste
― the late great, Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:32 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, polling usually does the opposite of accounting for taste
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:34 (eight years ago) link
maybe we need a new scapegoat, a la 1977 and prog rock?
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:43 (eight years ago) link
only thing that might save ilm now is if ppl agree to stop talking about music
also, the music critic thing? not a job. ignore them.
― irl lol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link
There is definitely a lack of posting in the UK morning which suggests not many brits/euros are on ilm now.
I think the lex mentioned once he doesnt even bother with ilx til the americans are awake as its so dead
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
music critics used to make lots of big posts here.. Now it feels they save that for the dayjob. Which is a loss to ilm
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:52 (eight years ago) link
dyou know what would be good
― irl lol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:53 (eight years ago) link
I had thought this too (and the ad money is no longer anything like covering the hosting bill) so tonight I went over all the data I have. Compared to 2013-2014, in the past year we are down average 18% on page views, 27% on active users. People are spending exactly the same amount of time on the site when they do visit, though.
I think a couple of big Google changes have affected us:- The change that downranked forums. This is the one that nearly killed Metafilter. http://www.fastcompany.com/3030848/what-google-search-algorithm-changes-do-to-the-internet
- A more recent change to penalise sites that aren't mobile-friendly.
Can't do anything about the first one, don't really want to do anything about the second but may have to. I also don't think that's the whole story either.
― stet, Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:54 (eight years ago) link
interesting info, thks
feels a lot quieter than even that drop tho
― irl lol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link
stet is there any way to differentiate how many active users are on ile & ilm instead of the sitewide one?
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link
individually counting the bearable ones
― irl lol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:56 (eight years ago) link
dyou know what would be good― irl lol (darraghmac),
― irl lol (darraghmac),
does it include suggest bans?
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:57 (eight years ago) link
Also, there is no change in the geographic distribution of users: 20% are from the UK, and that number has been the same since 2012.
xp not trivially, but I'll try some log analysis
― stet, Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:57 (eight years ago) link
I said users, I should have said "site visitors"
xp I thought better of it tbh
― irl lol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:03 (eight years ago) link
i post a bit less and it's totally because twitter has kind of become where i have a lot of the conversations i would've had here in the past, i imagine that's true for a fair # of people here. still love it here and think that the pace of things around here is a little more agreeable now than they were maybe a couple years ago when it just kinda felt like a daily rotation of clusterfuck threads dominating SNA.
― some dude, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:07 (eight years ago) link
come man that's no attitude
― irl lol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:10 (eight years ago) link
SHOTS FIRED
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
too few polls obvs
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:15 (eight years ago) link
shots fired at a couple years ago? i'm trying to think if anybody noteworthy was posting then that isn't now, honestly don't know.
― some dude, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:15 (eight years ago) link
ilm is 'quiet' because even our young kids are pushing 30 and we've had all the conversations dozens of times and maybe our feelings abt music are slightly less fraught and there are other outlets and kids and etc etc
but mainly because there are few new posters. tbh it's astonishing that things have been somewhat vital for so long
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:23 (eight years ago) link
shots fired at a couple years ago?
Nah, I was just goofing at darragh
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:25 (eight years ago) link
I still find plenty to talk about on ilm by digging up posts from the archives, but I'm not terribly in sync with a lot of the new music that gets people hyped on here (and even when I am, I end up liking the songs from albums that other people don't so much). This has been the case for years, though, so I don't see it as a sudden shift.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link
I'm gunning 4u now watch ur back
― irl lol (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link
This is a sad thread
― calstars, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:28 (eight years ago) link
oh shit
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:28 (eight years ago) link
Less people are excited by modern music. Social media can be used to transmit shitty opinions about albums much more efficiently. Take your pick.
― Cousin Slappy, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:48 (eight years ago) link
when you've lost cousin slappy, you've lost the nation
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 November 2012 22:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
― bentelec, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:51 (eight years ago) link
i was otm
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 July 2015 01:54 (eight years ago) link
Anyway, yeah, bummer thread. Have been trying to force myself to delurk and actually contribute something to a place that has meant a lot to me for the past 5 years; I don't want it to wither away now. I especially don't want it to wither away through being outcompeted by the megaplatforms (though obviously I can't begrudge anyone not wanting to hoe the same row indefinitely). I especially don't want it to wither away before the Stereolab poll finally happens!
― bentelec, Thursday, 9 July 2015 02:04 (eight years ago) link
this also seems really otm.
― the late great, Thursday, 9 July 2015 02:06 (eight years ago) link
I've been here since senior year in high school and am now turning 32 this year. It's been interesting watching all of you age out of this thing that you do/once did. I'm in it til the bitter, bitter end though.
― Cousin Slappy, Thursday, 9 July 2015 02:40 (eight years ago) link
It's because twitter is better than ilx.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 9 July 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
I was afraid of that. I liked twitter for a couple years, and then I didn't anymore. Don't want to go back.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 July 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
classic rock poll last year was so much fun, wish we could do it again and again
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 July 2015 04:20 (eight years ago) link
it definitely felt like the peak of my ilx career!
― some dude, Thursday, 9 July 2015 04:36 (eight years ago) link
"yeah i mean i liked RYM, but i just couldn't help but wonder if there was some hallowed land that'd let me talk about pink floyd AND def leppard"
― austinb, Friday, 14 April 2017 01:42 (seven years ago) link
I Love Jeffro Lloyd
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Friday, 14 April 2017 02:13 (seven years ago) link
i love bernard sumner
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 14 April 2017 02:31 (seven years ago) link
Fat Barnie
― yesca, Friday, 14 April 2017 08:41 (seven years ago) link
the best antidote for old ilx nostalgia is actual old ilx
Margaret Atwood should fucking die
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
I like how nü-ILX immediately locked it.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
bravo to the locker of that thread, tho i date "nü-ILX" much earlier - circa the sandbox exile and addition of radio button polls maybe?
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link
Nothing ever got locked or removed by request nor did anyone ever get banned on old ilx.
its funny to think that in 2001 we were referring to nu-ilx already though.
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link
but maybe i should revise my timeline around precisely this shift. 2003 thread starts, title/premise is disparaged but conversation goes on. 2009 revive cast significant side-eye on title/premise, conversation goes on. 2010 semi-revive is a false start, 2012 revive goes nowhere, 2017 revive leads immediately to thread lock. so maybe somewhere in there was a real shift in board values/priorities, which i applaud, and perhaps this marks the arrival of 2nü-ILX.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
I personally think of moving from Greenspun as the beginning of nu-ilx but others think of stet taking over and polls.
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
If you dont blame hstencil you are nu-ilx
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
all of you are like a little baby
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
we've come a long way (for a little) baby
― nashwan, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:07 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, 2017 ILX needs to contritely distance itself from its 4chan-esque past because that thread title is perfectly representative of the types of discussions people were having back in the day. Decline successfully averted!
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:10 (seven years ago) link
By the way, which one's Pink?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
― pomenitul, Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:10 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's an extreme example but like honestly go to any really long thread and get super basic opinions about tom petty and shit if you go all the way to the beginning
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link
best nostalgia for old ilx can be your own old ilx posts tbh
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
otoh a tiny bit after the beginning you do get mark s opinions
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
/Yeah, 2017 ILX needs to contritely distance itself from its 4chan-esque past because that thread title is perfectly representative of the types of discussions people were having back in the day. Decline successfully averted!― pomenitul, Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:10 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink/it's an extreme example but like honestly go to any really long thread and get super basic opinions about tom petty and shit if you go all the way to the beginning
― pomenitul, Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:10 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink/
or read posts on the Kendrick Lamar thread, from yesterday
― flopson, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
i stand by my steve vai posts
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
xxp but just after that you get infuriating anonymous posts via a long time anonymous poster that annoys mark s :D
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
stop trying to make fetch happen
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link
I was thinking of that annoying dude who you had to clean up categories when archiving
― Odysseus, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
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not as much quiet as talking in circles, can't figure out if self parody or realizing true potential
― niels, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 11:23 (six years ago) link