ILE: Was ILE around by then? I forget. I started using ILE a few months later, I think.
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jeff W, Monday, 2 December 2002 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
ILM, I was trying to find out how long i'd been posting. the first post i made, i think was in about december 2000, but i seem to recall i'd been reading it for a few months before i actually had the guts to post. i'll check and make sure... oh yes, 5th december, 2000. i was banging on about some dirty dronerock boy from hoxton. some things never change...
― kate, Monday, 2 December 2002 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
ilm: 6 march 2001
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― C J (C J), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't know. I knew about ILM for ages before that, but was scared. I remain scared.
CJ is one of my favourite new posters.
― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donna (donna), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― C J (C J), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 December 2002 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jones (actual), Monday, 2 December 2002 19:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― B, Monday, 2 December 2002 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Michael Bourke, Monday, 2 December 2002 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
I pressed the buttons required to start ILE but the ILM posters had already created it...
― DG (D_To_The_G), Monday, 2 December 2002 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 07:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 08:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― katie (katie), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 08:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 09:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― smee (smee), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 13:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 13:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 13:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
today is my 10th year anniversary of posting to ILX and this post is my 35,827th post
― Mordy, Sunday, 26 April 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link
how do you figure out how many posts you've made?
― the late great, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
listed on the boards page
― Mordy, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Really not sure. I think its been pretty consistently since I googled Emanuelle Parenin a few years ago. But have come across a couple of things that made me wonder if I had been on earlier, around the milenium. I was doing a lot online around that time.Think there was probably another Stevo here too. I don't remember the 2lp vs thread with MBV that I saw yesterday.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
in 3 days, it will be my two year anniversary with this dn. first time i tried posting was in july 2011 but i was scared off that time.
― Treeship, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link
april 26th 2015 is precisely my 8 year and 9 month anniversary
― carles the jekyll (imago), Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
still feel like the new kid in town some days
ive been here too long. ian or ferg can remember better when we first arrived
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
2001 i think
4/25/2005, 11,233
― sleeve, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:34 (nine years ago) link
my first post was 12/3/2003; only 1,501 posts so far, damn
― Brad C., Monday, 27 April 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
I think its been pretty consistently since I googled Emanuelle Parenin a few years ago.
<3
I first posted here on May 21, 2006 and started posting regularly in September. since then I've made about 9,380 posts (8,470 as unregistered and 910 as...registered). I probably ended up here by googling the Olivia Tremor Control or Mark Lanegan or whatever indie rock bands I was listening to as a college freshman. the second thread I ever started (a shameless piece of clickbait) has gotten more replies than anything I've started since.
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 27 April 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
i started lurking in spring of 2004, tipped off by friend and former ilx regular, chris p. don't think i started posting regularly until maybe 2007ish, mostly about basketball. not much has changed in the interim.
― Clay, Monday, 27 April 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link
i started reading ilm in 2005, in autumn probably, as i was new to my freshman dorm at the time. only 2000 or so posts, i've taken a lot more than i've given back, sorry ilx
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 27 April 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
pleasing symmetry of 9.5k posts in 9.5 years, i should aim towards hitting 10k on my 10 year anniversary in november. i have no recollection of how i ended up here, my best guess is via the plan b magazine forum.
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Monday, 27 April 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link
Too long.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 27 April 2015 00:30 (nine years ago) link
i have posted over 15.5k times i am a monster
― Clay, Monday, 27 April 2015 00:30 (nine years ago) link
11-12 years and i have posted 17k+ shitty, useless posts under this username
― computer champion (harbl), Monday, 27 April 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
I thought it was just 11 years or so, but it turns out I was ginning up ILX Literati tournaments in 2001.
― WilliamC, Monday, 27 April 2015 00:48 (nine years ago) link
February 2004, almost 5800 posts - probably 70% in I Love Cooking.
― Jaq, Monday, 27 April 2015 01:29 (nine years ago) link
feeling like this about ilx right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8
― Treeship, Monday, 27 April 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
weird to me that ilx only has 5,000+ registered users for some reason. given how long it has been here. i'm in a facebook group - where i spend a lot of my time now - and they got up to 6.000 members in a heartbeat. easier to join stuff on facebook obviously...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
even more puzzling considering all those socks
― ultimate american sock (mh), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link
Accounts have presumably been purged over time. I found a third login where I wrote a single post under my real name but it looks like the account no longer exists.
― More Fetid Than Fêted (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link
If you don't log in over the course of six months, the account is purged.
― how's life, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
So 5,000 users who have logged in over the last 6 months.
― how's life, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
i was a lurker in the pre-ILE I Love Music era, found through Freaky Trigger of course. I distinctly remember the very beginning of ILE, and reading it in my college computer lab while supposedly working on papers. started posting more or less (usually less) around 2001. this is my 5220th post.
― ryan, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link
5,000 users sounds like a lot to me, feels like there's only a few hundred regular posters
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
My first post was in 2003, putting these two jpgs side by side
http://i.imgur.com/6I1ToDi.jpg http://i.imgur.com/c39iIpb.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
wow i have almost 6k posts that seems v impossible.
― irl sweatpants (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
I think I must have been here from around 2007. I was just thinking that I had a sign in that I can't quite remember some variationon Pelucidar or parennin somewhere between the 2 of those, was assigned to me on first signing in.If unused accounts are purged after 6 months and I reset up my account when the forum moved I've probably lost any messages before 2011. So not sure still.I moved into this flat in late 2006 and set up internet in early 2007 which was the first time I had home internet. Had previously been using a University account borrowed from a friend. I don't remember if I had used ILX before I got my own computer so can't remember when still. Just think it was before 2011 and may have been a while after 2007
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
i'm still pretty new
― marcos, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
4,337 messages though
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/08/smoked-chocolate-and-tequila-ice-cream-recipe.html#556658
― nults of 2 ppl don't amount to a will have beens in this crazy (wins), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
fshin for compliments
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 April 2015
― LMAO. GOLD Chrisso. regards, REB (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
marcos has gone in hard
― ultimate american sock (mh), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
lol i still pretty much feel like i'm just a drop in the bucket
― marcos, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
2005 I think?
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
43678 posts. Since the big switches were flipped. Gah.
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
2001 I think, but I just used to make up a different name every time I posted. In fact, one of the first threads I posted on with this name (in 2002) was started by me with a different name, and then 75% of the subsequent posts are me under various other names too. It was a great discussion.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link
nakho's gonna have to do more than that to get me searching for phantom former accounts
― carles the jekyll (imago), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
Eyeball Kicks obv referring to an uproarious & very kinky incest thread where all the taboos got challenged
― carles the jekyll (imago), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
If only.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
a little over 7 years, so about half my life
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
November 7, 2004
I don't know how many posts though.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
about 3.5 years of mostly reading but also posting about once every 4 hours on average
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
but I just used to make up a different name every time I posted.
same for about 4 or 5 years much to the annoyance of mark s and tom :D
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
tho i think i did an actual pfunkboy post in 2002
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
2002 d k (i was in high school, ilm pop music theory was exciting, pharrell with his shirt off, ethan p imitations, getting my first blowjob while listening to freeway, any bumped thread from this period and i scan it already blushing for any embarrassing shit i said) 2004 william wiggins (like a stiff british music writer parody concept but then just talking about da band and cassidy singles in no caps, ten posts about nas in a row) 2004 cloverlandthug (ten posts about lil flip in a row, in hindsight chamillionaire sucked) 2007 dylannn (talked about china and working at a hotel, less interested in posting about music except nas and lots of posts with no responses or not very interested responses months later such as http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=93677 and ITT -_------->>> pictures of william t vollmann (no shops allowed) and lethbridge and selected films of joey wong 王祖賢 1984 - 2004). roughly 5000-6000 across all four?
― dylannn, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
i think i've been here under various names for eleven (!) years, and still never once been invited to the secret board :(
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
Since the start of both, though admittedly I was initially grouchy about ILE.― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, December 2, 2002 11:33 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
― entry-level umami (mild bleu cheese vibes) (s.clover), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
― carles the jekyll (imago), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:50 (46 minutes ago)
there's nothing exceptional there so even in the unlikely event you discerned one, no chuffage would follow
― LMAO. GOLD Chrisso. regards, REB (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
not the -age he's after iirc
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
since 2002
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
Fourteen years next month I believe.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
ciderpress wrote this at 2015-04-28 14:24:06.000
I'm pretty sure there's a post somewhere where stet broke down the entire ilx user base scientifically. I can't find it at the moment, but there's this:
the lurker pool for ilx is huuuuuuuuuuuuge-- strongohulkington, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:28 PM (5 months ago)(really, really huge. Scary huge)-- stet, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:36 PM
-- strongohulkington, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:28 PM (5 months ago)
(really, really huge. Scary huge)
-- stet, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:36 PM
― how's life, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
I still long for the days of a screenshot of 1 Active Users (that isn't after an outage)
I remember ILE starting and never even clicked on it until 2004ish as i was only interested in reading about music (hence why people long for old ILE lol )
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I stayed on ILM for a while when I started. ILE seemed weird and scary to me. I did not love everything. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go to ILX Heaven.
― how's life, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
been here since summer 2004. only posted a lousy 2,444 times.
― Darin, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
12 yrs ffs
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I stayed mostly on ILM for years before dipping a toe into ILE. I think I migrated to ILNFL before I even went to ILE.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
I feel like I read somewhere that lurker / contributor ratio on forums tends to be 90%/10%, so.... ~5000 posters, ~50000 lurkers...?
― Realhiphopshire (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
Or, you know, whatevs the correct math is 🎃
― Realhiphopshire (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
I think you posted a 10%/100% which means lurkers are 100% and we are the posting 10% which seems about right
― ultimate american sock (mh), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link