design portals dying? why?
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- Randd0
my fear is that design will become increasingly ubiquitous, that every citizen of the earth will sell t shirts and other vainglorious retail items
- Randd0
by the way, have you visited my online store yet?
- 23kon0
praystation's Dreamless was a great forum and bourned the dreamless conferences in the same cities that FlashForward was showing in. This was a cheaper alternative but with much cooler and underground speakers.
ah those were the days eh?
i think i've still got a dreamless tshirt somewhere- http://www.gtwreck.c…
i've used that index so many times in the past few years trying to track down old dreamless buddies.bigtrick - ...dreamless buddies.bigtrick
- http://www.gtwreck.c…
- Faction180
i think part of it is moving on to bigger and better things. some of it is temporary - remeber: computerlove died last year, and was resurrected later on bigger and better with a lot of "social media" features. i also think some of it is natural turnover, as some of the "veterans" are moving into higher-level and more demanding work and don't necessarily want to tweak on their sites until 4:30am after putting in a 13 hour day at the studio.
- Xentic0
haha, Kiiroi, their site was just frozen from a certain moment... it was unchanged for a few years and I kept coming back... always the same old news item... but from a few years ago...
that zander.dk guy was pretty hot these days ;-)
- gramme0
how many design portals do we need??
- Redmond0
I like QBN / NT best cause it's the simplest. I liked Newstoday best though.
- NT/QBN always lacked the heart and personality that other design portals did/do have. Like K10K/Netdiver/DeLijs... was that mate with who you went to drink a beer in a cosy bar while exchanging design news, and NT being the phone booth which is plastered with phone sex ads, besides the design news with some dog pee in the corner.calcio
- visualplane_0
QBN and Threeoh was my favorite. Who wants to make a design portal with me?
- ukit0
oh the glory days of Designgraphik Serving Phour
- Atkinson0
Well I'm happy to announce I have found the answer. This is THE definitive list of decent portals.
http://www.webportal.com/
- Atkinson0
oh, and it's web 3.0 - well ahead of our time.
- Peter0
Virus one, lotsofpeopleinboxes...
Oh, right, that was 99
- 1-UP0
I think Thomas have plans for a redesign of Surfstation... Due before 2009.
- tangereen0
NT/QBN, thank you for not disappearing like the rest.
i also enjoy netdiver
www.netdiver.net
- robotron3k0
two words: Shepard Fairey
- Faction180
looks like kai heuser (founder of lounge72) posts here in the editiors choice now.
- Fizik0
heh ..speaking of netdiver, and on this conversation... I see under the post on Lounge72 on there this:
"_ _ _ _ _ _
On a side note, don't know if you knew that I've been keeping a small directory of now offline sites (sometimes it does not mean the domain is no longer, just that that particular site design is gone - sometimes the domain is gone - sometimes the whole agency / company / freelancer is gone). In the early days of Netdiver - I would just remove everything but then for the past couple of years... I decided I don't want to forget all the talent, work and efforts that once was and now have disappeared and gone to reinvent elsewhere.
Head-up towards memory lane if you wish - the directory is called x_pired (http://www.netdiver.net/x_pired... and see if you recognize some."
ha .... seems the sentiment I noted is shared..hehe
- calcio0
yah, or www.delijst.net, which doesn't mean anything to most of you, but for a lot of us Dutch (or Flanders) peeps in the webdesign branche, it has been our daily starting page (as newstoday, surfstation, k10k, DiK or pixelsurgeon has been for many of you).
I guess that designportals is a thing of our generation and now that we all are 'growing up', we have less time to maintain them, cos I know that is extremely time consuming. But with a partner, kids and a more demanding job, where do you find the time to also keep a portal site up and running. Respect to all of them though, cos they have been our source of inspiration and knowledge for many years.
It should be the new generation (age 17-23) taking over with new and exciting designportal initiatives... but where are they? Is today's designer's generation already so blase?
- it's not that they're blase, it's more that the model for portals like pixelsurgeon and lounge72 is a bit outdated and the kids now appear to be using their own blogs, syndicating more content themselves and generally using things like facebook and myspace etc.jamble
- bruised_blood0
I very much miss Pixelsurgeon. Great for design sites, sure, but also a constant supply of 'check this out!' silly stuff...
I feel so uninformed on silly things these days... :(