Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

nabisco was occasionally otm, iirc

does anyone outside of ilx listen to that King group that everyone loves here or is it strictly a hivemind obsession. or what's left of the hivemind during these sad waning days of the empire.

King p much sold out a medium to large venue in london

there's a lot of ilxors in london though

there's a v obvious answer being as how we lost our best poster by far in the last year

― Mordy, Monday, 6 February 2017 20:16 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought Frederik got unbanned?

audience was not rly the mostly white hipster crowd responsible for much of the visible crit discourse tbh

also nakh will return, have faith

maybe he has already

still miss a puppy

i can say honestly that i am not here to read anyone in particular -- i am here to talk/learn about xyz thing. the people individually and the idiosyncrasies of their opinions are not of interest to me really.

it's not so much being here to read so-and-so (i suppose when i was 17 it was exciting to me that Jess or Nabisco whoever wrote for p1tchf0rk), but over time certain voices limned from the chorus and grow on you. and i was being intentionally excessively glib upthread, obvs still many good voices that keep me coming back

Armpits don't draw any attention unless they happen to really stink. I think that describes my presence here.

there's a v obvious answer being as how we lost our best poster by far in the last year
― Mordy, Monday, 6 February 2017 20:16 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know who this is tbh

it's not clear to me whether people think that the quality of ILM posting has gone down, or if they think it just isn't active enough (as suggested by the original premise of this thread), or both

also nakh will return, have faith

doubt it; it's ok tho. this particular venue was just a constraint anyway. we lost drash too (who really was w/ us too shortly to be said to have really been here at all). idk, whatever. things die. there's a famous isaac bashevis singer quote about yiddish that works for ilx too (paraphrasing) - yes yiddish is dying and may it continue to die for many years to come.

A bit of both but a lot more of the second option.

I think a big part of it is that the sheer proliferation of blogs and social media posts and free file-sharing sites means that ILM in general is A LOT less Googleable than it used to be.

(xpost to NA)

i always figured u guys had some contact w nakh off-ilx? tell him i say 'hi' if so. i figured he was just on-and-off, hadn't noticed that this was an extended break for him? a talented writer and painfully knowledgeable dude

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Drash was great.

i remember weeks when i was top of the statscock - dark days my friends

lex's point about threads dedicated to singles and albums getting 5 posts and then vanishing is weird to me - wasn't it always like that? too granular.

i still really, really value this place. i trust you guys! mainly. and i like the "old music" threads too.

It did use to be like that. I remember when it was a huge thing if a thread reached 100 posts. The nas thread and DMB thread where people were amazed at how many posts they had.

having to register did kill those threads. I miss the days of the random googler but the spam was getting too much so registration had to happen.

For me, the search function being out of service has been pretty limiting on my use of the board.

― Austin, Monday, February 6, 2017 12:52 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For me, too. But it also makes me wonder why I bother reviving old threads about some Krautrock band or some new thing I just discovered just to get one or two responses before the thread dies again (and yes, xp, in my experience, this does happen). Don't know what I'm expecting, necessarily--maybe nothing?--but yeah, I dunno. I hate the Rolling threads and I hate barrages of Youtube clips and I don't keep up with mainstream pop music.

But the absence of the search function has definitely kept me checking in less than usual this past week.

there used to be way more people. that makes a big difference. i remember when there were LOTS of threads with 100+ posts. but there aren't enough people around to make that happen now.

i'm not even around now...on ilm anyway. you're welcome.

the rolling threads seem like a direct response to the issue of "reviving old threads about some Krautrock band or some new thing I just discovered just to get one or two responses before the thread dies again"

ilx needs more clusterfucks

I never look at rolling threads tbh.

why do people hate rolling threads idgi

i never look at them either.

they're boring.

Donald Trump needs to start a music career.

The problem w clusterfucks is that if you're in any way an emotionally healthy person they are deeply unpleasant to be in the eye of which trains you not to start or participate in them again which winnows the field

i like rolling threads bc they let me find new music esp in genres that i don't know much about, i guess that's weird

Seems like they will be full of overly serious 'genre experts', could be wrong because I never look at them.

well, long threads on ilm used to be (sometimes) informative and entertaining. when people were debating things. and if you were into it. the fast and furious responses. it was fun. might have even been better before youtube too. people had to discuss what they were getting at instead of just going: see, like this. and posting a video.

i guess it depends on whether you're here for the music or the music writing

well, there were more debate champions in the old days.

and most of those people are long gone.

and i'm not dismissing the "here for music writing" cadre or anything, i know that's a big part of ILM history, it's just not what i use the board for personally

It's too regimented for my liking. That all goes over there in that thread, and that belongs on that thread.

you can read/post in more than one thread you know

think I'm going to advertise ilx about town but not quite sure what angle to take

It's not often that someone is trying to push the cluster down the fuck hill on purpose. It just happens.

U quickly learn where the sensitive points are

ilx shld have a snapchat filter

it's been fun and all but i look forward to the day ilx is gone

maybe next time there's a hosting drive we can have a "delete the whole damn thing" drive and see who raises more money

i like ilx a lot and spent most of my 20s posting to it but this type of being on the internet doesnt feel natural anymore. i mean a lot of what i liked abt ilx was that it was entirely separate from my real life and gave me a place to take positions or inhabit persona that i wouldnt have felt as comfortable doing on ~social media~ but that also meant that once i wasnt as engaged w/music and books and other stuff i posted on ilx abt i quickly fell out of reading and posting regularly

also a lot of the allure was feeling that you were in on this long-running dialog with the other posters and as those posters disappeared it made it harder to post longer/more meaningful stuff? idk

it's been fun and all but i look forward to the day ilx is gone

maybe next time there's a hosting drive we can have a "delete the whole damn thing" drive and see who raises more money

― the late great, Monday, February 6, 2017 4:26 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ime opinions like this mean that you want to quit ilx but have fomo. just quit if you want to.

I've killed loads of threads with really boring posts. Sorry.

ILX prevents me from looking too much at the cesspool that is much of the rest of the internet these days so it's still invaluable as far as I'm concerned.

Our pizzagates are much better