Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

i use bookmarks either for threads that 1) are updated daily but may have had >50 posts by the time i get back from school/work (eg politics thread) or 2) threads that are updated very infrequently - because these would probably have a closed circle next to it so i'd never notice it was bumped without the bookmark (eg, out there r&b or something)

― k3vin k., Thursday, August 9, 2012 5:31 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is how I use bookmarks, too. Everything in between gets no bookmark love from me.

This all sounds very complicated.

I use bookmarks on the threads I care about so the circles seem redundant?

The circles are dangerous siren calls of "You didn't care enough about this to bookmark it, but there are some new answers, and really, if it's this vs work...."

one thing I love about the code for this message board is the myriad of ways it can subtly tell you that there's something on a thread you might want to read; it just fits practically anyone's idiosyncracies

The circles are vestigial; I had honestly forgotten they existed but yeah, back in the day I used the same kind of shorthand processing through the optic nerve of which threads to click on based on the circles. If some people are still in the habit of using them it makes sense that they're around, but bookmarks really do all of the things circles do, and more, and they don't get re-set.

x-post - oh I bookmark too often if anything so I don't think I've ever had that problem. Huh. That's weird.

I don't like knowing about these circles. I can't have a new "thing" to worry about. I like my bookmarks and that's that. I wish I'd never found about about these darn circles dammit! ;)

I don't need to
Click around on circles, click around on circles

I've found that I've leaned on/integrated with ilx a lot more in the last few years, despite having lurked and posted very irregularly since... 2003ish? I feel like ILM was an entry point, with some of the other topical things and polls that floated in ILE being a way I drifted into that side of things.

The combination of having a private board where people are more likely to share and the fact I went through a ton of bullshit in my personal life a couple years ago really made me feel a lot more like sharing and being less anonymous. In the last few years, I've either had a drink with or at least said hi in person to about 11 or 12 ilxors, and regularly email or talk to a handful of people off the board.

imo blog view is mostly there to get innocuously angry about random threads you'd have never clicked on because the topics are annoying

yeah I don't personally find blogview helpful -- I'm kind of an 'all or nothing' person

It is solid if you've read the whole thread.

my life coach tells me this every time we meet

Everytime I remember that 77 exists it just strengthens my resolve to quit again :) Fucken members only boards on ILX, man....

The number of interesting threads, artists, music that I have discovered through using blog view (I'm mystified by people who claim never to have heard the top stuff in the yearly singles charts - it's so easy to spot good tracks that are blowing up by using blow view!) >>>>>>>> the random stupid shit that pops up.

btw the mid 2000s, noize board, and the like were when things were actually interesting to me as free-form discussion and not intellectual post-indie theorizing about pop music (which I liked, but never felt I had much to contribute to) or the in-talk of people who met up regularly off-board. really felt like the old guard of the board wasn't really threatened by that, but the complaining about things being different really was the catalyst for confrontations

I sometimes think I'd be in a much worse place today if not for 77, it's definitely helped shape my self-actualization and ability to accept and read other people

oh yeah, blog view would be good for ilm, might be cool to have filter settings for it to limit it to certain boards!

does anyone use the Board Email Subscriptions?

ugh I'm dumb -- blog view's ideal for ILM.

"blow view!" is a really good idea for a feature actually - - only shows you threads that are BLOWIN' UP

I use SNA but ignore the circles.

I don't use bookmarks or blog view.

I tick the boxes next to the threads I want to read, hit refresh to get rid of the others, arrange them how I wish, and then ask my assistant to print off each one for me so I have something to look at in the toilet stall after lunch.

ILX is beemed DIRECTLY INTO MINE BRANE via neural implant

you guys are killing me

Even the Dutch board? xp

It's really difficult to tell when, say, there's a random thread titled something like I JUST WANT YOUR FULL ATTENTION - is that about a band, a track, a new thing, someone just attention seeking? But with blog view, when you see every person on ILM, one after another, going "holy shit, this track is amazing" - you know that it might be something worth checking out.

And mh, I honestly don't mean to start anything up again, but what the old guard were complaining about Noize Board was not "things being different" but some quite seriously over the line, aggressive and bullying behaviour. Which it's very easy to forget or overlook when you were not the repeated target of this. But not if you were, for example, singled out for repeated harassment for two years solid, because you once asked someone to maybe resize an image.

ENBB you should come now while the Lobster wars are occuring - fight for the Maine resistance force against the maple menace to th enorth! LObsters are so cheap now the local papaer was actually beggin Mainers to eat them

xxp Are you one of those people who use Google Glasses? This isn't the Middle Ages you know. Sub-meson neural interface with Autotranslate provided by the BabelFish module is where it's at.

devastating 2 me how succinctly this digression unintendedly answers the thread question :(

x-post - Yes! My dad was telling me about all these cheap lobsters last week. Gonna be there in October but would like to drive up sooner just cause it's so pretty. Also, CHEAP LOBSTER.

xp On a serious note, I think that technology has had an impact. There is a drop in long form posts. We're used to posting tweets, and viewing websites on mobile devices.

x-post what's that supposed to mean, huh? :(

old ilx never spoke of lobster

flopson keep in mind the whole reason ILE was brought into existence was because ILMers were getting tetchy about music threads turning into discussions about what people had done the night before

Any set of answers to the question which didn't mention Noize Warz would be a little lacking, though.

Mobile devices might be a major structural force underlying a different feel - - ILX was always one of the last bastions of long-form paragraph-style discourse on the internet, and part of its appeal to me is TOTALLY the unapologetically early 1990s look and feel, text text text baby! This also makes it easy to use on mobile devices, which is an unexpected boon, but it also means that you're now trying to craft a post and by the time you're done, 25+ one-line posts have gone by and your remarks are sort of out of place now. Those one-line posts are often really good, mind you...they're not all zings and ho-hums! But they do mean that the format and pace is more like an IRC room than a Usenet board.

DG told me ILE was my fault ;_;

Can I ask an ilx history question: what is the origin of the Noize board?

or the 'noize' term in general

ANother some-time ILXOR will be visitng Portland but she is verydiscreet - she will not eat the lobsters though

xpost Seconded, someone please clarify!

I wish we had a Maine fap when I lived there. Enjoy tha lobstuhs!

I will eat them all!

Noise board creation also had some personality issues involved, though, which is to say that noise-folks wanted to use space to act a certain way, and creating the noise board gave them a space to do it.
Noise board creation would be like if you had a party and a couple dudes wanted to wrestle in the living room, so you said hey, let's set up a wrestling mat in the yard for you two.

Nabisco otm

got it, thank you!

2004-2008ish or so was really zing-heavy. But it was kind of fun. Still, hurtful to some I am sure. It's a lot nicer these days. Some people annoy me sometimes, but at this point y'all are kinda like my family members... some of you say things that make me roll my eyes at the dinner table but I still love ya.

I still rmemeber when there was the complaint that the ILM board was going off topic too much so the ILE board was made - where a tart can be star

Mandee otm

and the days of Momus sitting with us by the fire, chuckling at his genital

Noize was a thing! Wolf Eyes and Lightning Bolt and such!

A bunch of Noize fans made their way onto ILX, they were (most of) young and brash and boys and American. They clashed a lot with the mods, and eventually someone (I'm curious who) had the brainwave of giving them their own board.

someone (I'm curious who) had the brainwave of giving them their own board.

Wasn't there a time when anyone could create a new board?