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

Stickin w friendster

Just tried to make use of my invite; site seems to be down.

I'll use this after it gets acquired by Groupon or whatever

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)

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.

dreamwidth

hadn't heard of dreamwidth until now, kinda love the name

it was a LiveJournal replacement. No one uses it.

(amazingly, some hardcore holdout friends of mine still use both Livejournal, AND Usenet ffs)

I've got like 5 g+ accounts that I never use.

i swear to god i got a Yahoo! Groups invitation in my e-mail today.

Wow Yahoo Groups still exist!?

I was even suprised the other day to find Myspace seems to still be going (and is used by some bands and whatnot even tho, why would you when theres Bandcamp and Soundcloud?)

i still have an earthlink e-mail address, maybe that's why i got it...

Probably for the same reason you'd use a Hotmail acct xp

bc it's the account i used to sign up for ilx?

things like this always make me think about how I'm pretty calcified in my internet habits, or it feels that way - like, new platform? lol whatever, feel like I've got what I need here chum, you kids have fun with it tho

I go where the (bulk of the) action is, generally speaking. Thus in my internet life its gone Usenet --> LiverJournal --> ILX/FB (with a tiiiiny smidge of twitter). But all along its been about a combo of blogging and discussion for me (as opposed to posting links/social justice/soundbites). I cant for the life of me work out what ello would offer.

Liverjournal? lol, nice freudian slip. Also, I forgot about IRC.

Actually yeah Livejournal is what Ello reminds of in its scope (no celebs, not your grandparents). Except LJ without decent privacy options, which appears to be largely missing the point.

It's interesting to see people complain about what they now consider standard social media features, as if the idea is to be another Facebook.

It would be funny if there was a huge migration back to Livejournal. I know that's not how the internet works, but I'd do it.

Has LJ already revamped/rebranded itself like MySpace did?

LJ has made some cosmetic changes in the past few years but it doesn't really need to be remade or rebranded b/c it remains very popular in russia

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.