Why do people leave ILX for good?

fucking 21st century blows.

some good stuff on the dogs thread lately

eoy coming up on ILM

it's all good

and as stated ∞ times the surrounding web is now so horrible that ilx is a relative blessing

I feel too sad to click on the dogs thread after my dog had a stroke last week and had a bit of a relapse last night, during his slow recovery.

Can't complain too much about ILX, the rest of the internet is much worse.

sad to hear that calzino, hope he/she gets well soon

ahh shit happens, he's already a year over the average age for a lab.

sounds a bit cold, but y'know he's had a good innings.

sounds like a good boy

even the postman was on the verge of tearing up when I told him earlier, he deffo has a bigger fan-club in the area than I do!

an historical conclusion: all my threads are good and everyone is bad for ignoring most of them

flopson - raise the discourse and name names!

i agree. i think is because the internet in general doesn't feel fun anymore

― Trϵϵship, Saturday, November 24, 2018 1:20 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think ilx is fine but I was talking about this at work with someone, I've been realizing this just how boring and shitty the internet is, like it's hard to find anything that interests me

Most of the stuff I read comes from ilx

I tell myself I'm going to stop visiting ILX at least a couple times a week, and usually it's because I want to scale back my internet use across the board. This isn't specific to ILX; it's the same with a few other sites. I don't think it's habit that keeps me here so much as that I need some kind of distraction to get through a work day.

I mean what an I supposed to do....work?

the problem is the element of discovery or mystery is gone as all content has basically migrated to a handful of platforms. it's just boring. even often like specific thread revives, i can tell what link or tweet will have been the impetus because i'd just seen it minutes before

that's a good point, the whole sphere is shrinking/speeding up

at the same time that also results in clustering of niche interests/personas which is like a weird combination of homogenization and specialization

i miss when the internet was like 'www.jimschoepke.com' with a hit counter, his list of favorite movies, a bunch of gif links to the web rings he was in, and what cons he was attending

internet discussion is terrible, it feels like there's no point in discussing anything. well, just politics, but fucking everything is political these days. i still love music and want to tell people about the cool stuff i've heard, but the framework just isn't there anymore. i just need to find locals to randomly text about stuff smith records, or get my uncle's cell phone number and text him about it. there's nothing on the internet that feels like it can be used to build on.

at the same time that also results in clustering of niche interests/personas which is like a weird combination of homogenization and specialization

― global tetrahedron

i feel like the "long tail" is vanishing, i have a lot of niche interests and have no idea where to talk about them

I mean what an I supposed to do....work?

a hit counter, his list of favorite movies, a bunch of gif links

I remember that web. It was about as exciting as a toddler's pull toy that bobs its head and waddles as it moves.

more fun to explore tho, and actually easier to find some stuff on, as i've recently opined on one of the lamenting-the-old-internet type threads

someday maybe we'll lament the demise of places like ilx

actually, there are already several dozen threads on ilx, lamenting the demise of ilx

but you know what i mean

you're right. the internet is just going to become more homogeneous. like wal mart, but more treacherous because the whole thing is organized along partisan lines and it's very easy to say the wrong thing.

there's nothing on the internet that feels like it can be used to build on.

― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, November 24, 2018 12:05 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i find this sadly true but maybe i am just thinking about it the wrong way. in theory, the internet provides an amazing platform for creativity as anyone can get an audience. but there is something bleak about the structure in place to reach that audience and the way the content gets organized

It's all fragments, now more than ever.

actually, there are already several dozen threads on ilx, lamenting the demise of ilx

these have been going since at least 2003

Taking sides: nu-ilm vs old-ilm

damn i was 13 then. glad i wasn't posting yet.

it was always already bad, as were the places we all arrived from

I have the same conversations most time I'm with irl friends, why would the Internet be any different really?

ILX is just a (very) dry pub to me, mostly

totally forgot about hit counters.
seem to recall I put one on my site for a few weeks.
strange times.

we can make ilx good again by adding avatars, post signatures and an upvote/downvote system

I mean what an I supposed to do....work?

― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

browse tvtropes

For many shows, the Status Quo Is God. No matter what happens in a given episode or arc, somehow, things go back to the way things used to be by the end. However, there are series that have the guts to break this pattern — to seriously change their premise, or at least to shake up major parts of their story, and really mean it. No Reset Buttons, no Snap Backs, no way to restore the comfortable status quo. Nothing Is The Same Anymore is Exactly What It Says on the Tin — the setting, or the characters' situation, has changed significantly and irrevocably, for better or for worse, and now the characters have to deal with it.

The trick is to do it without Jumping the Shark, which can be a difficult task.

As there isn't an easy out if it all goes wrong, the writers tend to have to resort to desperate measures like All Just a Dream to attempt to undo the damage should things go pear-shaped and are rejected by audiences. This rarely goes well, and can even result in a Franchise Killer. Pretty much the only hope is a well-executed Continuity Reboot.
See also Game Changer, Wham Episode, Freak Out!, Post-Script Season, Breaking the Fellowship, Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome, and Ascended Fridge Horror.

we can make ilx good again by adding avatars, post signatures and an upvote/downvote system

no.

i forgot Facebook integration and the chance to give ilx gold to particularly accomplished posts

you've earned a trophy!

one month without a flagged post

I kind of wish you could upload small temporary pics directly to ilx. But that's probably because I wanted to post a pic of my dog.

I never thought cutty was mean.

bg oozing for a bruising

kind of wish you could upload small temporary pics directly to ilx

you can upload small temporary pics to the internet and then post them on an ILX thread, which is exactly the same procedure as uploading a picture to ILX and then posting it on a thread would be

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/arts/the-end-of-endings.html

The mutually assured feedback loop between Twitter and cable news has suspended us in a kind of informational purgatory. As the BuzzFeed news reporter Joe Bernstein put it recently: “One amazing thing about being alive today is the constant electric sensation of bad things coming to a head that never resolves but still maintains its tension over time.” The algorithmic “timeline” — which does not show tweets in chronological order but instead boosts the most attention-sucking posts — has corroded the sense of even the passage of time. Tweets from hours and days before mysteriously resurface to haunt the present. Facebook creates a similar sensation in one’s personal life: Recently I found that every time I logged in, the first post I’d see was a tribute video to an acquaintance’s dead dog, over and over again.

a tribute video to an acquaintance’s dead dog, over and over again

If you want a picture of the future...

Today I learned that calzino should stop biting the postman.

(Sorry about your dog, man)

I used to be a thread starter, but I doubt I've started as many threads this year as I did in Nov 2013..

At this point, the internet for me is basically ILX and baseballcardvandals.com. Don't really know what else anyone would want/need.

I get a lot more actual reading of actual books done these days, so three cheers for the internet's senescence on that front.

I don't know if this is really the right thread ask, but could someone expound on how the internet has gotten worse? I mean, aside from the ascendance of Twitter/FB/Instagram?

Was there something of the good internet that simply no longer exists? I mean, there are still good websites. Is it something to do with actual good blogs being replaced (and, I guess, eventually decimated or even destroyed) by microblogging?

Is it that Google search simply doesn't lead you to the good stuff anymore (which, in itself, would have a severely delitirious on the existence and creation of good stuff)?