Much of that time was passed in bored agitation, like a long wait at a Verizon Wireless store.
sorry had to stop reading there
― duke of irl (Edward III), Monday, 11 July 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
Had no use but R.I.P anyway.
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
I suspect they're all just being quiet until she goes away
― remy bean, Monday, 11 July 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
R.I.P fiction-fan or fan-fiction borads, whichever of you are dying- you will be missed.
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Message boards are the record stores of the internet.
― polyphonic, Monday, 11 July 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
my friend has so many hilarious and incredible stories from her Women Trying to Conceive support group like they are stunning
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 11 July 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think most people would consider Facebook to be a replacement for message boards - I have a feeling that WebSense may be as responsible for the decline in board traffic as anything else (assuming the decline is real).
― o. nate, Monday, 11 July 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
it has made me want to make a tv show about a Women Trying to Conceive support group that solves missing or murdered children cases but I think in the long run it would make me feel bad
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 11 July 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
ive been posting threads on twitter using the #ILX hashtag for a couple months now, just thought i'd make this thread to let yall know ur obsolete
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Monday, 11 July 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
Last month, a once-popular eight-old-year British board about mental health went dark with a note
Is she talking about ILX here?
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 11 July 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
an eight-old-year
And haha, btw.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 11 July 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
It is pretty dark in here.
― Confused Turtle (Zora), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
Too dark to see. Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
Message boards have gone off the internet because of you
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
I propose a big relaunch and rebranding event for our beloved site and turn it into...
ILX+ !
(that's it, just add a + at the end, no other changes whatsoever)
Come on, who's with me?
― StanM+ (StanM), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
That so strange that a message board for women trying to conceive would fizzle out. I wonder why that could be. It's almost as if all of the women who were regular posters eventually had something else enter their lives that took time away from posting to message boards and made the trying-to-conceive topic suddenly irrelevant.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
I propose a big relaunch and rebranding event for our beloved site and turn it into...ILX+ !(that's it, just add a + at the end, no other changes whatsoever)Come on, who's with me?
Add N to ILX
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
IXL would be a better name now.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
rebrand should be iL:X obv
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Monday, July 11, 2011 11:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
:-D ;-)
― Asamoah Nyan (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
We should do the relaunch over the holiday season. Call it ILXmas.
― You get nothing for a pair, not in this game (snoball), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
il,____,
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Something very similar happened at the cancer message board I used to frequent.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 11 July 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
maybe JT will buy the place!
xpostoh man
ILX3
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
THE STRANGEST SUPER-HEROS OF ALL!the ILX-MENhttp://i.imgur.com/9yKgC.jpg
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Why does Cyclops look like a hunchback who has cacked his pants?
― You get nothing for a pair, not in this game (snoball), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Favorite Omega-Level Mutant
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
OIC
― You get nothing for a pair, not in this game (snoball), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, because suddenly no other women anywhere are trying to conceive. Your argument makes no sense.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 11 July 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
it was a shame when the great chautauqua went extinct, too, but i hear they're comin back because hipster steampunks and shit
― fat mantis got sonned by a fred over a strava beef (Hunt3r), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
xpost - Today's couples don't want to bring children into a world where messageboards are all dying/dead
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 11 July 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
Women whose posts suggested distress were often treated to “good vibes” and virtual hugs. You knew you’d been hugged on a message board when your screen name was rendered in double and triple parentheses, like this: (((you))).
i think we should start doing this btw
― some dude, Monday, 11 July 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
fu could be 8===D you C===8
― mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Monday, 11 July 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
(((some dude)))
thugs get hugs :)
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 July 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
Every messageboard I've ever been a part of or looked at has had a core group of dedicated regulars who set the tone for the place, serve as moderators, take care of hosting/coding, and generate most of the valuable discussion. You can't really have a community if it's just a constant revolving influx of new blood imo. And most of the best ones seem to involve people who are obsessed with the board's topic and have been active members for years. I would think that most people posting on a "TTC" board are not going to stick around for a decade.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Monday, 11 July 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
Add N to (((ILX0R)))
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://media.herald-dispatch.com/blog/idol/uploaded_images/Heaven-I-Need-a-Hug-Poster-729884.JPG
― online pinata store (Nicole), Monday, 11 July 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
Also wk otm
― Let Them Eat Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 July 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
Otms replaced by hugs
(((wk)))
― Last Friday Night (G.T.F.O.) (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for the "good vibes"!
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
thanks {{{m@tt)))
― some dude, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
Nobody tell that lady about SomethingAwful.
Wait, somebody tell her about it. Or4chan. Or reddit. Or WATMM. Or ILX. Or Whirlpool...
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
“My guess is that as time went on and the archives got larger and larger, many people are researching old topics rather than starting new threads,” another wrote. “Every possible topic has already been discussed.”
POLL: Do you wear a wristwatch?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
xxxp it's always good vibes with Hugs A. Money!
― Last Friday Night (G.T.F.O.) (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
TAGS:
FERTILITY, INTERNET FORUMS, MESSAGE BOARDS, WOMEN
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
its sad, we posted on one
― # (Lamp), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe the gist of the story is, "I noticed an old forum I used to post to is dead. I also found a couple of other dead forums, thus it's of course a new webwide trend. Sprinkle in some plausibility with Web 2.0 gibberish, and print!"
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
You know what I also hear is dying is NEWSPAPERS LIKE THE NY TIMES.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
I scoff at the Old Media just like I scoffed at Old Europe during the Iraqi War or Operation Sunblock or whatever it was called
― dell (del), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
xpost it's true! The News Of The World shut suddenly last sunday!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
So many of those message boards look like shit. All those stupid icons and signatures. Good riddance!
― Mount Cleaners, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 10:49 (twelve years ago) link
Message boards have been replaced with LiveJournal. THAT IS SO SAD!
― Breezy Summer Jam (MintIce), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
LiveJournal's already been supplanted by DreamWidth.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
more like dreamwitch (because livejournals are for goths)
― positively clean dishes (absolutely clean glasses), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
google+ is the new livejournal, going by the amount of blogging on it
― stet, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
google+ came over to my house and literally replaced my previous social networking sites, photos uploaded, the lot. It then washed the dishes before leaving.
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
My wife used to post on some of those boards made up primarily of late 20s women. They always seemed to erupt in drama when one poster criticized anothers' parenting skill too harshly, then camps formed around various posters and breakaway boards were created to keep the warring factions away from one another.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
people pretty much just use google+ to talk about google+ as far as i can tell
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
i got chased off metafilter by a bunch of 20something women for daring to suggest that the parents of transracially adopted parents aren't any more 'noble' than parents who bear their children themselves, and should that adopting a black/asian/russian kid didn't make you some kind of saint or martyr. p.s. i am transracially adopted and love my parents.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
the parents of transracially adopted parents.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
"i'm 3rd generation transracial myself, you can probably tell"
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
metafilter is that worst of all possible worlds: a population of idiots that fancy themselves smart
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
and before the obvious zing flies in, i would suggest that at least on ILX we know we're all idiots
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, for sure.
bit of a mistype above. it was interesting how quickly the metafilter bile flew, and how racially inflected it became w/in two or three minutes.
― a real, you know, eugenic guy (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
ha cmon now
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
i hardly look at metafilter now, but i remember any post about music or politics drew a mountain of disspiriting conversation
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
metafilter is better than fark or reddit, but thats not saying anything
― ☂ (max), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
c'mon on the racially inflected bit? a lot of u.s. adoption law/custom is really fucked up by fundie adoption agencies who see adopting kids from foreign countries as a form of civilizing, missionary work. on the other side, a lot of countries have really low opinions of U.S. citizens coming to 'take' their babies, and treat adoptive parents like garbage. it's a really heated issue, and i wandered into it unarmed
― a real, you know, eugenic guy (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
You were born in Colombia, no?
― Twenty Flight Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
yep
― a real, you know, eugenic guy (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Pasto? Armenia?
― Twenty Flight Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, those are just some names of towns I learned recently that I liked.
― Twenty Flight Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
oh man
like, every single thing in that article is wrong
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Mosquera, Cundinamarca
― a real, you know, eugenic guy (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
xxp didn't mean any offence, remy, and sorry if you took any. It was a throwaway 'awkward party introductions' kinda comment, not meant to hit any sore spots.
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
np. i'm a real eugenic guy.
― a real, you know, eugenic guy (remy bean), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not touching that
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes feel I keep this place going just to save myself from ever having to go to metafilter again tbh
― stet, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.metafilter.com/89131/Hipster-Puppies
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.metafilter.com/82458/Three-Frames
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Thought about jumping ship but, like the castaways on Gilligan's Island, I don't want to escape under false pretenses, I want to be rescued properly.
― Twenty Flight Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
like, did it occur to v heffernan that google is attempting to make social networking MORE like messageboards, i.e. conversations that "stay in the room" ?
or even to ask a friend what "web 1.0" means?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
"Hi, Gladys? Good, thanks. Say, I was just wondering...do you happen to know what the web 1.0 means?"
― dell (del), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link