What is your Ello name, I really really want to follow you on there
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
Hi. Is there someone good at answering questions here, preferably not a librarian, who could tell me if it is possible to post a picture on this new thing called Ello without downloading the picture to your computer then uploading it. Thanks!
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
Literally googled "embeds on ello"
http://gizmodo.com/what-is-ello-1639054383
You can post short messages, add photos, and @ reply your fellow Ello-ers. You can add links and whatnot, but no embeds (yet, presumably), however Ello does boast in-line emoji integration.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
welphttps://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
'boast'i am so surethat's like the tumblr error msg i got today 'something is wack'
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:31 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh wello
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
Boasting about emoji integration is wack, for sure.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
less consume more commune sounds great until you realize consume is your comfortable background setting for any sm platform and you can't imagine what commune means beyond like 'do nothing'
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
*calls friend says hi*
Kind of funny to see actual proper beta software in widespread social use, like I added someone as Noise because they're smart but I don't actually know them, and then I had to add them again because lolbeta, but by normal social media metrics that's a weird passive aggressive things to do.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
i started a thread on this one once. wonder what happened with it.
http://www.stack.fm/
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
@mavenmaven add me 4 maven thoughts
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
there is some charm to "finding your friends" again after years of aggregating people and friend bloat
― sarahell, Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
apparently there will be this:Love + Love bookmarking stream
― sarahell, Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
i started a thread on this one once. wonder what happened with it.http://www.stack.fm/
I sort of vaguely know the guy behind it, he made the fairly staggering decision to seek out no less than €100,000 on indiegogo to get it built. Of course the campaign failed dismally because he never managed to satisfactorily explain why he needed so much money to make a social network. So I'm kind of lol'ing now that ello is taking off with the exact same principles that stack had.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
Given the initial massive excited burst G+ had and how useless it ended up being, I'm not that moved by this thing.
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Friday, 26 September 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
we had fun for a day or two iirc
― markers, Friday, 26 September 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
not gonna lie, knowing someone's relationship status was often useful
― sarahell, Friday, 26 September 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
Some people make you 'ask' for that now on fb. Not Useful!
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 September 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
what a stupid feature
― markers, Friday, 26 September 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:11 (Yesterday) Permalink
Glad u could make use of my visionary thread
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 26 September 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
Um, that's an astonishingly small amount for the proposed work, like Ello has 5x that and looks like literal shit (tho that's its 'thing')
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 26 September 2014 05:54 (nine years ago) link
I like it because it's more random and isolated feeling than fb or twitter. all my friends do is post animated gifs without context. all the whitespace is nice. it's basically like a stupid messageboard. like ilx!
― akm, Friday, 26 September 2014 06:06 (nine years ago) link
"looks like literal shit"
looks like figurative shit
― akm, Friday, 26 September 2014 06:07 (nine years ago) link
akm's top friend.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 26 September 2014 06:24 (nine years ago) link
otm is still available
― sarahell, Friday, 26 September 2014 06:41 (nine years ago) link
https://ello.co/markzuckerberg haha
― akm, Friday, 26 September 2014 06:53 (nine years ago) link
https://ello.co/ass hehehe
― sarahell, Friday, 26 September 2014 07:28 (nine years ago) link
Basically it makes me think of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LDVZFHywzg
― Mark G, Friday, 26 September 2014 09:30 (nine years ago) link
Why does it need €100,000, let alone $435,000, to set up a website? Why does it need any money at all? It's just writing code, which you can do in your spare time. Zuckerberg did it out of his dorm room.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Friday, 26 September 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
It's the 'gradually turning into unusable shit' that costs the big bucks iirc
― kinder, Friday, 26 September 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
you gotta buy a bunch of those computers without monitors, and shelves for them
― j., Friday, 26 September 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
FYI: EC2 instances cost money.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 26 September 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
Holy smokes. They are running on Heroku. A CPU is $34.50 per month ($$$)!
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 26 September 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
If they are using Heroku Postgres (120 GB RAM, 1 TB storage, 500 connections): $3,500.00 per month!
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 26 September 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
i.e. the cloud sucks
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 26 September 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
Can you really not embed images?
― emil.y, Friday, 26 September 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
I've been told that posts are public and search engine searchable
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 26 September 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
touche schlump
― mattresslessness, Friday, 26 September 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
welphttps://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:31 PM (Yesterday)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:31 PM (Yesterday)
more backlashhttps://aralbalkan.com/notes/ello-goodbye/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 26 September 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
(same backlash)
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 26 September 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
― sarahell, Friday, September 26, 2014 2:41 AM (2 days ago)
Not anymore.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 28 September 2014 06:36 (nine years ago) link
uncleshavedlongcock is still available
― sarahell, Sunday, 28 September 2014 10:20 (nine years ago) link
Stickin w friendster
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 28 September 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
Just tried to make use of my invite; site seems to be down.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 28 September 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
I'll use this after it gets acquired by Groupon or whatever
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Sunday, 28 September 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
I only joined FB about 3 years after it took off, and reluctantly (and then didnt use it for 12 months). I jumped on G+ and Dreamwdith right away so I could nab usernames, and theres a temptation do to that here too but I have not once posted on my G+ or Dreamwidth account so screw that (I do use G+'s hangouts chat app tho)
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Sunday, 28 September 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
Still hardly ever use twitter either, and a large chunk of my friends only post/chat there, and I am genuinely missing things theyre up to. Which faintly annoys. but eh, they use the same argt about FB.
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Sunday, 28 September 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link
dreamwidth
― schlump, Sunday, 28 September 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
hadn't heard of dreamwidth until now, kinda love the name
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Sunday, 28 September 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
'...ellooooooooooo!'
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 March 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
you'd think the timing would be ripe for a compelling FB alternative again, now, but we'll see. ello ain't it
another reason i thought i'd have a look to see if it had improved given all the original hype re 'no adverts ...' etc.turns out it hasn't at all.admittedly the site seems to work better, but i care not re an excess of art student projects (things i just dont care about #32).
― mark e, Thursday, 22 March 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
tumblr and instagram both already exist, so...
― Nhex, Thursday, 22 March 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
Remember when?
Anyway it disappeared last year. A post-mortem.
https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 January 2024 16:56 (three months ago) link
yeah i went to look for it a while ago and found several other things that now use the Ello name
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 18 January 2024 16:57 (three months ago) link
woof, that article is a burn.
― Nhex, Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:10 (three months ago) link