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

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

advertising-free ello was pleased to email me this morning about the new Ello x Threadless T-shirt store

http://i.imgur.com/L6HFZoV.png

Fucking thank your for your continuous stream of sparsely designed & absolutely uninteresting bullshit marketing emails, ello.

Just checked, it's still there.

This reminds me a lot of the delusional kid who would start yet another pointless campus litmag because, you know, the other ones just weren't getting it right and only he had the vision to create something truly underground and beautiful drawing on the same crappy talent pool as every other publication on campus

Just checked, it's still there.

And again, still there. The most recent post in my follow feed is from October 2014.

I'll be happy when people ello takes the place of poor misunderstood Google+ as the butt of social media jokes.

March is NSFW Month on Ello!

http://gizmodo.com/ellos-death-rattle-will-you-stay-if-we-give-you-porn-1689003075

this is still going, and now branded as 'the creators network'.
just logged in for the first time in years.
its not the most compelling experience.

I still get the emails

i logged in purely to switch the emails off, and thought i would have a bit of a wander around.
as i am not a creator i got bored very quickly.

yes whenever I get an email from ello I think "hahahaha I remember that". you'd think the timing would be ripe for a compelling FB alternative again, now, but we'll see. ello ain't it

'...ellooooooooooo!'

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).

tumblr and instagram both already exist, so...

Remember when?

Anyway it disappeared last year. A post-mortem.

https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/

yeah i went to look for it a while ago and found several other things that now use the Ello name

woof, that article is a burn.