design portals dying? why?
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- gramme0
how many design portals do we need??
- 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 ;-)
- 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.
- 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…
- Randd0
by the way, have you visited my online store yet?
- 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
- kalle0
kiiroi anyone?
- kiiroi is the biggest mystery ever in the design world for me. I never *got* what happened.Jaline
- LOLximeraLabs
- it was the yellow one. that's what happened!monNom
- johnny_h0
It's just not as exciting as it was. I remember k10k was brilliant, years ago. Also dreamless, but surfstation, three oh, DiK all just seemed to not move on, dreamless and k10k sent me to NT when they went off for a while (about 6 years ago) and now NT has become QBN.
Perhaps everyone just got busier with their own jobs and needed to pay their mortgages.- i still miss dreamless! it was great while it lasted.bigtrick
- neue75_bold0
It's the next step toward abolishing design completely... which is ok with me...
- designerror0
I want three.oh back
- I forgot...that was another good one.Jaline
- Three.oh was the bestvisualplane_
- One of my all-time faves.Geith
- Yep. But if we want to go reallly old school, we need to hit up Chank Army & Swanky & Sound of Print.skwiotsmith
- dr_pangloss0
http://www.zeroin.gr another Greek portal, not got round to taking the L72 and Pixelsurgeon links off the footer yet : )
- smellvetica0
I think people are too busy, the guys behind the portals are all doing their own thing, Arber's Wyld Stallions for one.
- olli1010
Funny - after reading these posts, I just stumbled across this. At least these guys are looking for submissions!
- ukit0
Perhaps the format is considered outdated...rather than cram a lot of content into tiny boxes with 45 degree arrows and "pixel" fonts, the new consensus seems to be the rise of the simpler blog format. With larger screens and shorter attention spans, users don't mind scrolling so much, and studies indicate they are more likely to enjoy 11px Arial than 10px Verdana.
Welcome to Web 3.0.
- heheOnePixelSolid
- i (heart) georgia 14 pxpascii
- I actually like Arial more than Verdana, but not the larger sizes. More like 10px and 11pxJaline
- Wait, so you think Web 2.0 == 45 degree arrows and pixel fonts? That was so 1998, Web 1.0 mayne.NONEIS
- ok_not_ok0
I used to go to Newstoday but they're gone now. Now I just hang here.
- visualplane_0
I never even bothered going to those sites.
- kalkal0
The type looks fine here.. a lot of the images are obviously scaled in the browser though.
- dr_pangloss0
so does the type look bad on your screen J ?
- The type looks okay. I think it's the images, as kalkal mentioned below.Jaline
- funny, images don't look too bad to me but the smoothing on the type looks terrible...
dr_pangloss
- Llyod0
they're going away because they weren't making enough money to make the work involved worthwhile
- detritus0
Ride the failure cascade..
http://science.slashdot.org/arti…