design portals dying? why?
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- tparsons0
I remember when it was only Kaliber10000.com and K10K.com... Must be getting old.
- 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
- 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 :(
- 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.
- calcio0
404?
- 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.
- 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... :(
- 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
- 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
- Faction180
looks like kai heuser (founder of lounge72) posts here in the editiors choice now.
- robotron3k0
two words: Shepard Fairey
- tangereen0
NT/QBN, thank you for not disappearing like the rest.
i also enjoy netdiver
www.netdiver.net
- 1-UP0
I think Thomas have plans for a redesign of Surfstation... Due before 2009.
- Peter0
Virus one, lotsofpeopleinboxes...
Oh, right, that was 99
- Atkinson0
oh, and it's web 3.0 - well ahead of our time.
- Atkinson0
Well I'm happy to announce I have found the answer. This is THE definitive list of decent portals.
http://www.webportal.com/
- ukit0
oh the glory days of Designgraphik Serving Phour
- visualplane_0
QBN and Threeoh was my favorite. Who wants to make a design portal with me?
- 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