fine to me, and certainly a huge improvement on the previous incarnation
― giraffe, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 17:29 (two weeks ago) link
Fine here and it looks great
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 17:32 (two weeks ago) link
yeah redesign is much better (puts away reading glasses)
― default damager (lukas), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:15 (two weeks ago) link
The way they announced it on socials — "The Quietus is reborn" or some shit — made me worry they were gonna try to pivot to Unherd/Free Press/The Atlantic-style conservatism, while still covering music. Glad it was just a reskinning of the site and not some kind of "now let us tell you what we really think" nightmare scenario.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:45 (two weeks ago) link
I gladly cannot think of anyone less likely to pivot to any kind of conservatism than John tbh
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:23 (two weeks ago) link
lol very true
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:21 (two weeks ago) link
or Luke
Yes of course Luke as well!
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:37 (two weeks ago) link
Looks nice but I did a few reviews for them years ago and the first few paras of them don't appear under the new look, which is weird.
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:47 (two weeks ago) link
Worth getting in touch to explain that - I'm sure they have an easy way around that glitch...
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 09:24 (two weeks ago) link
if you have the urls we could check the source code and see if there's some css styling/js that is creating that glitch!
― fpsa, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 13:17 (two weeks ago) link
The way they announced it on socials — "The Quietus is reborn" or some shit — made me worry they were gonna try to pivot to Unherd/Free Press/The Atlantic-style conservatism, while still covering music. Glad it was just a reskinning of the site and not some kind of "now let us tell you what we really think" nightmare scenario.― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, May 14, 2024 7:45 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, May 14, 2024 7:45 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Curious to know why this would make you think that?
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:14 (two weeks ago) link
The actual language I saw on Twitter was:
The Quietus has regenerated.Welcome to our new realm of cultural discovery, devilment and debate.
Welcome to our new realm of cultural discovery, devilment and debate.
I'm old enough to have seen too many media outlets (especially ones emanating from TERF Island) use language like that to signal a pivot to "iconoclast"/"contrarian" editorial perspectives that boil down to middle-aged right-wing bullshit in a leather jacket. And since my only exchange with the editors, some years ago, was an unpleasant one (they asked me to write a review, but only on the condition that it was negative), I was suspicious.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 16:15 (two weeks ago) link
You can't Quiet Us, woke moralists
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:58 (two weeks ago) link
it's called humour, unperson.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 18:23 (two weeks ago) link
i am just rather chuffed that the 4 (thomas dolby, age of chance, don letts, and foetus course), interviews i did for them, have been ported across to the new site.
― mark e, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 18:27 (two weeks ago) link
"foetus course" : "foetus of course"
What wine goes with foetus
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 18:30 (two weeks ago) link
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel (Of Cheese)
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Thursday, 16 May 2024 08:21 (two weeks ago) link
"Culture Countered" is a bit rubbish (not sure if that's always been there though)
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 16 May 2024 12:23 (two weeks ago) link
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/music-industry-greed-taylor-swift/
Eamonn Forde on the state of the music industry
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 May 2024 16:46 (two weeks ago) link