design portals dying? why?
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- emecks0
I know why design portals are dying (and a lot of other things too).
They became too popular see, SEOs and SEMs discovered this years back and started trying to launch their "virals" through net savvy groovsters... soon after that it came to the attention of "the marketing department" and they started it too - now there are companies actively recruiting poor wannabes into positions where they do fuck all all day except post their shite on "design portals" in the vain hope they won't get called out for being the cunts they are.
Two perfect examples:
http://www.qbn.com/topics/538011…
http://www.qbn.com/topics/537996…
Je rest mon case.
- calcio0
404?
- nephronim0
im part of a site that has a section for pieces of interest, not just a design portal but thats what is updated more often.
We have been looking for people to submit links and even join the team as contributers for out articles section.
We have found it really hard to find people that will volunteer their time. I just think the community spirit is flagging a bit recently. As for the cost of running a design portal site, well unless u want terriible google links and ads it gets costly.
Its a bit of an uphill struggle i find, it would be great for people to get more involved in these kind of sites.
- mz4060
according to his portfolio site the lounge72 was getting about 4000 visits a day, i'm sure it was more than that cause if ads are paying .10 for every 1000 views thats only $.40 a day :(
- Studiospooky0
I miss the jolly *NEWS TO DAY" jingle lady.
I think we are seeing the birth and death of the first generation of online social experience. I think these will things just burn out as we find we have little left to say once the excitement recedes and real life kicks us in the pipe. When I was a kid FM CB radios were leaglised in the UK and for two years the working classes went fucking nuts for CB radio. This was pre-mobile communication so the whole thing was wild and exciting. After two years though we had really run out of things to discuss, sitting in our cold Morris Marinas every evening, and the entire community simultaneously sold up its gear and retired from the airwaves permanently. The revolution was over.
For me, something like QBN is a vital part of my day at the moment becuase I run a one-man studio and spend many busy days working in isolation. I talk abstract crap on something called The Pile, which is a closed group of creatives from around the world and latey I've been posting here too becuase The Pile is beginning to creak. To drop some stupid nonsense into a forum such as this or the Pile is an isolation breaker for me, but I increasingly find it doesn't cut the mustard so much now, and more and more I resort instead to walking briskly up my high street with no pants and trousers on and defecating outside the florists.
- God I'm a schmuck. I forgot I was browsing old threads and replied to this one. WHAT A DOOBER!Studiospooky
- haha, nice post though! insight and hilarious endingFizik
- tparsons0
I remember when it was only Kaliber10000.com and K10K.com... Must be getting old.