Have you checked out Ello.co yet? What do you think? Is there a niche it's going to fill that's not already overserved? Did meh give them their weird face icon? Or did ello steal it, while you were sleeping?
I am still waiting for my invitation to arrive... It sounds theoretically promising, but really, I'm not certain that I will post anything there, seeing as how I stopped posting on the Facebook a couple years ago, and I haven't felt the urge to start oversharing my life again. Really, if there is anywhere I overshare nowadays, it's probably here.
I'm there, but not really doing anything with it at this point. Mostly just wanted to lock my name down. It needs a lot of work before I will consider it really useable.
@xarous Sorry, I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I couldn't figure out where the very obvious join link was. All good, thanks for offering me a code!
Looks like I can invite a few people. First three people to email me at jsh139@forward.cat I'll generate an invite code for. Put your email address in the body of the email since I'm using an email forwarder and I don't know if it'll come across in the email headers.
@jsh139 Yeah but once they join then they can invite three… and those can invite three and before you know it the entire user base of meh can be on there...
@Thumperchick Love the email address--and I can empathize. My preferred was taken too, so I inanely stuck a ".email" into the middle of it. Sigh. Hmmm, actually ".sigh" could've worked.
I have a bunch of invites if anyone still needs one. (they keep giving me more!) Just email me at invites@the1pony.com and put your email address in the body of the message. :)
@heartny@KDemo yeah, it needs some work, but it certainly has potential. I'd like it if they would not publish replies on the main feed, so I don't see all these random comments that make no sense, and also the reply threads are in backwards order, which is annoying. But I love being able to use animated gifs, and have my name the way I like it, and other little niceties that Facebook lacks. We'll see how they manage their growing pains. :)
YES! Got the much-coveted Starblind username. I will add all y'all mehtypes and will eventually post kittens. Let's be best friends! https://ello.co/starblind
Thanks to the every Kindly @pony I'M IN!!!!! I'll take almost anything (good) over facebook, wonder if my friends there will join too. I hope. anyway if you vote for me I promise a pony in ever pot....... er I mean ...... MOVING ON, you can find me at htts://ello.co/foxborn
@Starblind I'm used to dealing with all the fun that comes with Beta, so it's no big deal. I was just hoping to add everyone on here. :-) If anyone wants to find me there, my url is https://ello.co/purplepawprints ETA: But, I just realized (because I'm slow) that if I just put the username I'm searching for in the url, I can find them. Yay!
@bluedyn It's very Beta. On the computer, the only way (that I can find) to change the pics is drag & drop. I'm old school and prefer the popup window so I don't have to juggle windows. :-)
@PurplePawprints I think that guy is overreacting. Venture Capital isn't some evil we should be boycotting. It's a way for people with more ideas than money to turn their ideas into a business. Many just couldn't afford to do it any other way. If we all boycotted every company that took VC money we'd have a LOT fewer choices as consumers.
@hallmike I understand what venture capital is and how it works. I just thought his line of reasoning was interesting in the sense that you'd expect the VC to want some return on their investment and if the site isn't going to have ads, then the money has to come from somewhere. I'm going to see where it goes, but I'm thinking we'll see a lot of Micro Transactions for the fun stuff. Might still be worth it, but that's unknown at this point.
@PurplePawprints You are being open-minded about it and are willing to see how it goes, but that guy is overreacting in my opinion by basically saying "OMG they took VC money - I'm out for good, and everyone else should leave too!"
@PurplePawprints I don't mind that they took VC money, I mind that they asked people to work for free yet still took the money and didn't pay people who worked for free. That bothers me
@PurplePawprints Many, many companies are venture funded. It is one major way new companies get funding. That blog is correct that investors want their money back - it is after all an investment for them - an investment in a product or service where the new startup's business plan and product/service looks promising for the company to meet a need, be successful and grow.
It is also high risk as generally around 10% are home runs, 40% money is lost (part or all of it) and the other 50% the investors either break even or make a modest rate of return. New businesses need venture capital as they (and angel investors) are a major source of equity funding (rather than debt funding or hitting up all your relatives and friends). Generally speaking (yes it looks like woot it didn't quite work this way, despite the hopes) whomever buys the company (or it goes public so is now accountable to stockholders) the goal is to preserve what made the company a success.
One catch is that the bigger a company gets the harder it is to preserve the original success components (you have to manage differently when a company is large than when it is small). If a company doesn't accept venture capital, doesn't have a large enough income stream by itself to meet costs, then the company needs to resort to loans. Debt, for a new company, generally is less helpful than equity funding (eg venture capitalist invest in exchange for a % ownership). Debt increases costs due to debt payments.
So the big question then becomes if they are planning to remain free - how will they raise enough money to survive? Sell ads? Sell their membership database for spammers (oh wait I mean marketing purposes)? It costs money to run something like this and the money has to come from somewhere. Many new companies do not broadcast all over their website that they have venture funding so in that respect they are not unusual. Getting venture funding though is helpful for reputation effect for the company - the company has been vetted and someone very important with influence has decided you have promise. And it is helpful for company survival, especially when they are young and don't have enough cash flow to meet expenses with venture money (eg equity funding).
So in many regards, in my opinion, there isn't some devious and/or unethical plot by not broadcasting prominently their venture backing. If, on the other hand, They took the money and ran… well they won't get more and if their burn rate (eg how much cash it takes to stay in existence) is that high, they likely won't be in existence for all that long then either without finding more investments/income. And getting that kind of cash, especially repeatedly (venture capitalists generally make multiple rounds of funding as a company grows and is successful), is unlikely on kickstarter or indigogo… So how exactly are they going to meet their payroll, server space, etc.?
@Stumpy91 Not that I know of. They are instituting a version of pagination. Sort of. Which will make pages load faster, hide some of the exchange until you click on a button...
I kinda took the weekend mostly off aside from staring into my dying Trip Glasses, but if anyone happens to have extra invites, I'd be happy to use one. Thanks! Also, is it me or do these invites look a lot like Meh order numbers?
@hallmike@Pony Thanks for the code and offer respectively -- I'm in. Might wait until lunchtime at work tomorrow to start getting situated there. it looks more and more like a Mediocre site, though. Let's just see if there's any pagination...
@Kidsandliz Not really. There are tons of ways to obscure that, and with all of the publicity Ello's gotten these last few days, none of the principals are names we know from here.
@hallmike That's odd. Guess it could be a bug, but doesn't seem likely since the other invites worked. I tried it as soon as I saw you had posted it but it wouldn't take it. Ah well, all is good in the end.
I'm late to the party but if anyone has an invite left, can they shoot it to abitterwoman@gmail.com? I would be forever grateful..or at least for two weeks.
I still have some codes. Send your email address to invites@the1pony.com and I'll invite you directly from the site. I'll be online for a couple of hours. (It's 6:15 AM Pacific time right now)
@jsh139 Got in early, but not so early that single-characters weren't available. It was before @ replies, so it also didn't seem as beneficial to people I suspect. (I just liked that my url looked like the twitter home page if you didn't look closely: twitter.com/_ )
Okay, I've sent to everyone that's emailed me so far, and now I'm off to get a few hours of sleep, hopefully. :) I do still have more invites, (I'm down to 12, finally, haha) so if you aren't in a hurry you can still email me at invites@the1pony.com and I'll invite you in a few hours. If you're in a rush, there should be some more people here with invites now. :)
@cblimes Well I used the second one and it worked but what is does then is give you someone as a friend who you don't know… oh well. So how can we friend each other?
@Kidsandliz If you know their Ello username you can type it in the URL and click the 'friend' button. Like this: https://ello.co/hallmike Another way to add friends is to look at your friend's list of friends and add people from there.
@kidsandliz, i clicked on the x to remove you as my friend :) up above, they said all you need to do it go to the url: https://ello.co/pattih, if pattih is your friend and click on the add friend.
Interesting that they seemed to jump to the alphanumeric segment of the codes. Many more combinations available this way. I still have invites if anyone wants them. Though tbh, I'm not sure it's worth it.
@ruouttaurmind Sweet, nobody owns that domain, mine now. "Anti-social network" - Invite only, no connecting profiles. Private blog format where you just bitch to yourself about stuff. No external social media connections.
I'm starting to think that ello is just an extravagant joke being played by a cabal of particularly bitter hipsters. The good news is that no one seems to get it and the activity is low, so it's easy to keep up. But, yeah, I have to say that the mobile interface totally sucks. On a PC it's tolerable. It is, however, definitely meh, even on a PC.
@joelmw@bluedog Interesting. I actually found it extremely easy to figure out and find the mobile interface better than the desktop though both are just fine. Took me less than a minute to find my profile and upload pics.
I've had strangers start following me. In trying to make them go away, I inadvertently started following them. Can't figure out how to reverse that. (The X didn't work). Advice: if someone with thousands of followers follows you, just add them to "noise".
@Bingo@bluedog I didn't have any trouble uploading pics, but I can't figure out any way to zoom in on a pic in the mobile interface. I find the font and much of the layout annoying--like a bitter hipster. Hence . . .
@Bingo There's also no way to share someone else's post, as far as I can see. And while I'm able to easily figure out most of what little there is that I can do, 1) there's not much I can do and 2) being able to figure it out doesn't make it either intuitive, pleasant or otherwise effective.
@Bingo I don't total hate it. I don't total hate the austerity of it. I just don't really love much about it. And I have to say that I'm more fond of most of my other social media platforms. I haven't given up. It might grow on me. And it is beta; maybe it gets way better.
I'd like to rescind the advice. Moving them to noise now means I'm following them. New advice: just ignore strangers. (Unless anyone knows how to unfriend someone in ello?)
I give it a solid "meh". With features similar to Tumblr or G+, it seems like just another blog-style social media site. Nothing really unique or special.
@username Pshhhh LiveJournal, I'm a unique and different outsider so I use DeadJournal(holy crap that site still exists, I was hoping it would eventually disappear and take my horribly embarrassing 14 year old emo ramblings with it) . You don't even need a code.
@username Probably true but at the time I got into it when LiveJournal was huge in freshman year of high school the differentiator was not needing codes and being for goth/emo/edgy kids.
I would like to point out there's a site called "10 Minute Mail", a temporary e-dress that saves you from having to post your email for all the public to see. http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/
@KDemo Change history? Good I have some history that needs to be changed pronto. I presume I can change history with the knowledge of the future so that when I have a redo I can do again more wisely?
is it just me, or does anyone else think they used "ello.co" just because you could read it as "el loco"? (which doesn't mean i wouldn't take a code if someone offered it)
I'm an intermittent social media-er anyway, but I definitely feel like I've been cheating on meh by hanging out at ello. And I'm nervous she can smell the perfume (okay, hipster sweaty funk) on my shirt.
And The Onion posted a great little piece about ello that made me crack up and think of Mediocre.
@Thumperchick See what we started?!? lol
@Thumperchick I especially love the spoof comment “No advertising is nice, but what really appeals to me is the lack of users.” I AGREE COMPLETELY.
I am still waiting for my invitation to arrive... It sounds theoretically promising, but really, I'm not certain that I will post anything there, seeing as how I stopped posting on the Facebook a couple years ago, and I haven't felt the urge to start oversharing my life again.
Really, if there is anywhere I overshare nowadays, it's probably here.
I'm there, but not really doing anything with it at this point. Mostly just wanted to lock my name down. It needs a lot of work before I will consider it really useable.
I am waiting on my invite too. :-(
@patti Try rattling-this-hands as invite code.
@xarous 1) where's my invite? 2) what URL do you go to to use the invite?
@curtise I never got a reply from @patti if she used it.
@curtise So I guess first person that can get it use https://ello.co/join
@xarous I just tried it and it worked. Sorry if it was a one-time use and I stole it.
@jsh139 Totally did, lol.
@jsh139 BOOOOOOOO stolen!
@xarous Sorry, I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I couldn't figure out where the very obvious join link was. All good, thanks for offering me a code!
@patti See below.
@patti email me a3941285@trbvm.com
@jsh139 You have appeased the robot mafia... Thanks!
@xarous You are the best, come and find me on ello. @pattih xo
@curtise lol, nice ninja edit.
Looks like I can invite a few people. First three people to email me at jsh139@forward.cat I'll generate an invite code for. Put your email address in the body of the email since I'm using an email forwarder and I don't know if it'll come across in the email headers.
@jsh139 Oh darn, stand by
One invite left...
@jsh139 Me me me, I wanna be in ELO!
Starblind got the last one. All gone (for now).
@jsh139 Yeah but once they join then they can invite three… and those can invite three and before you know it the entire user base of meh can be on there...
@jsh139 Worked great, thank you!
@Kidsandliz I can send you an invite if you need one
@Kidsandliz yep, of course.
@jsh139 is "cat" a TLD now too? I just registered a few .beer domains.
@editorkid Lol, I guess so. I just didn't want to post my real email address publicly, so I used the first email fwder that came up in Google!
I have one invite left. If you want it, shoot me a message. The email is thumperchickwastaken at gmail.
I guess this offer for an invite wasn't seen.
I saw. Is it still available ? I sent email just in case.
@Thumperchick I just requested one from you. :)
@bluedyn On the house. https://ello.co/join suppose-splashing-nose
@patti Whoohoo! I'm in! Not sure why I care, but thank you :)
@Thumperchick I have given out all of my invites.
@Thumperchick Thanks ! I'm in. Have to set it all up later tonight.
@Thumperchick Love the email address--and I can empathize. My preferred was taken too, so I inanely stuck a ".email" into the middle of it. Sigh. Hmmm, actually ".sigh" could've worked.
I'm @pattih on ello, come and find me ello-ers! xo
@patti my username on ello is.... are you ready? Thumperchick. I know, I know! WHO would have guessed that?
Oh screw it https://ello.co/join/garden-sir-threelegged is the last one for the day.
@xarous thank you!
@hallmike You're welcome.
I want an invite. oh please some lucky person pass on more invites.
I have a bunch of invites if anyone still needs one. (they keep giving me more!) Just email me at invites@the1pony.com and put your email address in the body of the message. :)
@Pony sent
@Pony I'm In!!!!! Thanks
@Foxborn Yay! :)
@Pony Just sent you an email.
Still plenty left! :)
@Pony Thank you very much. I am now hamjudo there too.
@Pony Sent you an email. Hope you still have a least one left for me :-)
@Pony Just sent you an email. (Still up?)
I've sent invites to all who have emailed me so far, and still have more left. I'll be up for quite a while, so feel free to keep asking. :)
@Pony Thank you! I'm in! It looks so simple, yet confusing. So not like Facebook.
@heartny - I agree. I guess simplicity is the point, but maybe at the cost of ease of use.
@heartny @KDemo yeah, it needs some work, but it certainly has potential. I'd like it if they would not publish replies on the main feed, so I don't see all these random comments that make no sense, and also the reply threads are in backwards order, which is annoying. But I love being able to use animated gifs, and have my name the way I like it, and other little niceties that Facebook lacks. We'll see how they manage their growing pains. :)
@Pony I'm glad they have a WTF button. I suspect I'll be using that a lot.
Being completely ignorant (and maybe there's others like me), why would I want an invite to Ello?
@pooflady I just joined and I still don't know. Just to claim your preferred username perhaps?
@pooflady I'm like you.
@Ignorant Do you think we should ask someone to invite us?
@pooflady nah.
YES! Got the much-coveted Starblind username. I will add all y'all mehtypes and will eventually post kittens. Let's be best friends! https://ello.co/starblind
Thanks, @Pony! I'm in, but couldn't get either of the two names I wanted, so I'm PurplePawprints there, too.
@PurplePawprints such a cute name!!!
Thanks to the every Kindly @pony I'M IN!!!!! I'll take almost anything (good) over facebook, wonder if my friends there will join too. I hope. anyway if you vote for me I promise a pony in ever pot....... er I mean ...... MOVING ON, you can find me at htts://ello.co/foxborn
@Foxborn Pony in every....AACK! ~runs away~
Well, I'm glad a few people are finding me and adding me, because every time I try to search for someone, nothing comes up.
@PurplePawprints Yeah, search might be busted, all part of the beta experience. You can still go directly to anyone's URL to add them though, like https://ello.co/usernamehere
@Starblind I'm used to dealing with all the fun that comes with Beta, so it's no big deal. I was just hoping to add everyone on here. :-) If anyone wants to find me there, my url is https://ello.co/purplepawprints ETA: But, I just realized (because I'm slow) that if I just put the username I'm searching for in the url, I can find them. Yay!
I'm in, thanks Pony! htts://ello.co/11demo
@KDemo * https://ello.co/11demo
@Thumperchick: Oops - tanks! ;-)
Is it possible ello hates phones? Editing my header only opens the camera, no gallery access.
@bluedyn It's very Beta. On the computer, the only way (that I can find) to change the pics is drag & drop. I'm old school and prefer the popup window so I don't have to juggle windows. :-)
@PurplePawprints Click on the two little squares right above the words 'drag & drop' - that opens a pop-up for me
Beta issues is what i suspected. Thanks for advice. I'll try it on my laptop, another time. For now I'll remain generic.
@hallmike Thanks! I'll try that next time.
Anyone notice Jason Toon referenced Ello in today's safe write-up?
@KDemo Yep, I laughed when I saw that, as I was in the middle of sending invites. :)
@JasonToon - Here's your invite, if you'd like: idea-bristling-their Go to: https://www.ello.co/join
@KDemo and now I'm in too...thanks!
@meow57 That's okay, you're welcome.
@KDemo Aw, thanks! I was in already (for some reason), but I appreciate it.
I've still got a couple of invites left if anyone needs them. Hit me up.
@patti How does one go about hitting another one up?
@TheEndless code: prison-tied-guests https://www.ello.co/join
@patti Thank you very much!
@patti I'm interested if you still have one left. Thanks in advance
@somf69 - Here's one for you: never-executed-corner. See the join link above.
@KDemo Sorry, I stole it, but here's one to replace it: anything-court-could
@stupidrobot - No problem, welcome aboard!
@KDemo @stupidrobot @somf69 Sorry I was late in the game on this but please add me anyway here: https://ello.co/pattih xo
@patti If anyone comes up with another code, I'd love it..
@Bingo here-placed-finished xo https://www.ello.co/join
@patti Thanks. Happened to get one from @Pony just before this so I'm good. Use that for someone else :)
A friend of mine just posted this on Facebook about why they aren't joining Ello. Thoughts?https://aralbalkan.com/notes/ello-goodbye/
@PurplePawprints I think that guy is overreacting. Venture Capital isn't some evil we should be boycotting. It's a way for people with more ideas than money to turn their ideas into a business. Many just couldn't afford to do it any other way. If we all boycotted every company that took VC money we'd have a LOT fewer choices as consumers.
@hallmike I understand what venture capital is and how it works. I just thought his line of reasoning was interesting in the sense that you'd expect the VC to want some return on their investment and if the site isn't going to have ads, then the money has to come from somewhere. I'm going to see where it goes, but I'm thinking we'll see a lot of Micro Transactions for the fun stuff. Might still be worth it, but that's unknown at this point.
@PurplePawprints You are being open-minded about it and are willing to see how it goes, but that guy is overreacting in my opinion by basically saying "OMG they took VC money - I'm out for good, and everyone else should leave too!"
@PurplePawprints I don't mind that they took VC money, I mind that they asked people to work for free yet still took the money and didn't pay people who worked for free. That bothers me
@PurplePawprints Many, many companies are venture funded. It is one major way new companies get funding. That blog is correct that investors want their money back - it is after all an investment for them - an investment in a product or service where the new startup's business plan and product/service looks promising for the company to meet a need, be successful and grow.
It is also high risk as generally around 10% are home runs, 40% money is lost (part or all of it) and the other 50% the investors either break even or make a modest rate of return. New businesses need venture capital as they (and angel investors) are a major source of equity funding (rather than debt funding or hitting up all your relatives and friends). Generally speaking (yes it looks like woot it didn't quite work this way, despite the hopes) whomever buys the company (or it goes public so is now accountable to stockholders) the goal is to preserve what made the company a success.
One catch is that the bigger a company gets the harder it is to preserve the original success components (you have to manage differently when a company is large than when it is small). If a company doesn't accept venture capital, doesn't have a large enough income stream by itself to meet costs, then the company needs to resort to loans. Debt, for a new company, generally is less helpful than equity funding (eg venture capitalist invest in exchange for a % ownership). Debt increases costs due to debt payments.
So the big question then becomes if they are planning to remain free - how will they raise enough money to survive? Sell ads? Sell their membership database for spammers (oh wait I mean marketing purposes)? It costs money to run something like this and the money has to come from somewhere. Many new companies do not broadcast all over their website that they have venture funding so in that respect they are not unusual. Getting venture funding though is helpful for reputation effect for the company - the company has been vetted and someone very important with influence has decided you have promise. And it is helpful for company survival, especially when they are young and don't have enough cash flow to meet expenses with venture money (eg equity funding).
So in many regards, in my opinion, there isn't some devious and/or unethical plot by not broadcasting prominently their venture backing. If, on the other hand, They took the money and ran… well they won't get more and if their burn rate (eg how much cash it takes to stay in existence) is that high, they likely won't be in existence for all that long then either without finding more investments/income. And getting that kind of cash, especially repeatedly (venture capitalists generally make multiple rounds of funding as a company grows and is successful), is unlikely on kickstarter or indigogo… So how exactly are they going to meet their payroll, server space, etc.?
@Kidsandliz Isn't there a maximum character count in posts on this forum? I need a Cliff Notes version.
@Stumpy91 Not that I know of. They are instituting a version of pagination. Sort of. Which will make pages load faster, hide some of the exchange until you click on a button...
http://betabeat.com/2014/09/ello-founder-says-vc-funding-is-no-big-secret-thats-silly/
I kinda took the weekend mostly off aside from staring into my dying Trip Glasses, but if anyone happens to have extra invites, I'd be happy to use one. Thanks! Also, is it me or do these invites look a lot like Meh order numbers?
@editorkid Nope - not just you. Invite code: hadnt-trees-stand
@editorkid send your email address to invites@the1pony.com and I'll invite you directly from the site.
@hallmike @Pony Thanks for the code and offer respectively -- I'm in. Might wait until lunchtime at work tomorrow to start getting situated there. it looks more and more like a Mediocre site, though. Let's just see if there's any pagination...
@editorkid I have a nagging suspicion it is an 'experiment'.
@hallmike Well I suppose that could be chased down by locating who owns the url… (too lazy myself)
@Kidsandliz Not really. There are tons of ways to obscure that, and with all of the publicity Ello's gotten these last few days, none of the principals are names we know from here.
Ooh, time to lock down the user name (like anyone else would likely have it.) Invites anyone?
@Cinoclav her-larger-man-mist
@hallmike Seems someone (err.. a jerkoff) very quickly stole that one. Thanks for trying though.
@Cinoclav We'll find out who it is because Ello tells you who uses the code. Then we can shame them here. I'll send you a new code if Jenny doesn't.
@hallmike Jenny did. And that person is apparently now your friend from the way I see how it works. Go get them!
@Cinoclav No uninvited friends have shown up in my list yet. I wonder if I sent too many at once and they got messed up. Another beta bug?
@hallmike That's odd. Guess it could be a bug, but doesn't seem likely since the other invites worked. I tried it as soon as I saw you had posted it but it wouldn't take it. Ah well, all is good in the end.
I'm late to the party but if anyone has an invite left, can they shoot it to abitterwoman@gmail.com? I would be forever grateful..or at least for two weeks.
@jenny sent.
@jenny Care to pay it forward?
@hallmike Thanks! Used and I'm in! I no longer need a code :D!!
@Cinoclav Sure thing. Do I get 3 codes? If so, let me find them.
@Cinoclav Figured it out. Do you want me to send via email or did you want me to post here?
@jenny Sent you an email, especially since... well, see post above yours.
@Cinoclav Done deal. :D At this rate, all of Meh will be on it.
I'm on ello under the same name.
@janetv Do you have any invited left?
@pgathens i'm pretty sure i do. did you find one already?
hey, anyone with ello... can you send me one to ccyoun @ gmail . com? Thanks in advance!
@ccyoun Did you get one yet?
@Cinoclav not yet. can you send me another one?
@ccyoun Tis' sent. See you there!
@Cinoclav thanks.. now I got it!!
Still no luck on the invite code from them. Any extras laying around. I'll post mine on here once I get in
@pgathens Get one yet? Want it posted here, or emailed?
@Cinoclav email would be great. paul.athens@gmail.com
@pgathens Sent! Sorry for the delay, work was in the way!
I still have some codes. Send your email address to invites@the1pony.com and I'll invite you directly from the site. I'll be online for a couple of hours. (It's 6:15 AM Pacific time right now)
@Pony Sent you an email. Thanks!
@frog I haven't received your email yet- try again?
@Pony Sent again. I can try a different email address if I need to.
@frog Yeah- I've still got nothing from you. Weird.
@Pony Ok, I went ahead and sent another from my Gmail account.
@frog That one just came through. Sent your invite. :)
@frog Ha! Your original email just finally arrived. Must have been a traffic jam.
@Pony Haha, Yahoo must be slow today. Thanks for the invite!
@Pony Thanks - got it!
Still a bunch left, (they keep putting more onto my list!) still going to be online for a bit.
I took the liberty of friending people who I could find after only one cup of coffee, and I think I have invites if anyone still needs one.
@editorkid Mind sending one my way. I would also pay it forward
@funkypunk If I'm seeing the entire code, it's called-court-because at ello.co/join. If that doesn't work or if someone snipes it, let me know.
@editorkid I did get another a minute ago so hopefully someone snipes it for themselves. Thanks for sharing
The teamwork in this thread made me smile. Thanks guys.
@Thumperchick Go Team Meh! ;)
Oh, btw, my username is meh over there, but for now it's just me, not meh.com. (underscore and dave were taken, so I settled for this)
I don't plan on using it, but couldn't stop myself from getting an account.
@dave I am surprised that was still available, considering where this thread is taking place LOL
@Kidsandliz Ah, I signed up 5 days ago.
@dave I'm actually curious how in the world you got underscore on twitter? That's insane right there.
@jsh139 Got in early, but not so early that single-characters weren't available. It was before @ replies, so it also didn't seem as beneficial to people I suspect. (I just liked that my url looked like the twitter home page if you didn't look closely: twitter.com/_ )
@jsh139 Also pre-2007 people were mostly using phones to sign up, and _ was annoying to type on a flip phone.
@dave That's awesome. Just goes to show, ya gotta get in early!
Okay, I've sent to everyone that's emailed me so far, and now I'm off to get a few hours of sleep, hopefully. :) I do still have more invites, (I'm down to 12, finally, haha) so if you aren't in a hurry you can still email me at invites@the1pony.com and I'll invite you in a few hours. If you're in a rush, there should be some more people here with invites now. :)
Thanks @Pony! I have some invites now, just pay it forward. Let me know.
@pgathens hey, can you send me one? ccyoun@gmail.com thanks in advance
Sent. I still have more available.
The whole site is quite bizarre and definitely confusing. Sort of, "am I writing something or wtf?"
@Cinoclav I gave up on it after 30 minutes of fumbling around in frustration.
@bluedog Understandable. I think it's going to peak and plummet rather quickly.
@Cinoclav Even though I've done absolutely zero with my account, I've got enough followers to make me feel like Forrest Gump.
It does seem to be the bastard child of a twitter, g+, pinterest 3-way.
@Thumperchick e-mail me and we'll discuss payment for not disclosing the link to my fanfiction.net account
there's not much here but i have one so you can add me to your noise list if you want
Invitation only! I'll never get an invite. I'm too mediocre for the cool kids.
@jimmyd103 Mediocre is the new cool. If you want an invite, email me. I have plastered my email all over this topic- you can find it. LOL
@Pony Thanks for the offer but I already spend too much time screwing off here.
Still waiting for my invite. If any kind soul wants to bring me into the fold I'm my meh.com username at gmail.
@Homechicken Sent you one.
Thanks, @Pony! Two invites of my own to give away now:
https://ello.co/join/some-before-is-after-deb80e-3c3115
https://ello.co/join/keep-things-trees-81fece-bf0048
If you click and see a red light next to the Invitation Code box, someone already beat you there.
@nibbles Keep things trees is now taken, thanks Nibbles. c:
@earendilscomet You're welcome! Both gone now, but I'll post more if get them.
@nibbles Two more here, not sure how to hyperlink: solemnly-atom-eye-30d9f0 | thumbria-help-why-c2fd36
I found a google document with a ton of codes. First one I tried worked:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18f5nLB8wIbk09Sawy01EPmr4H-Vxep4XxwpQjNswebg/preview?pli=1&sle=true
Click on the link provided above. There are like 12 pages of codes on that document.
since I used one of the above here is a couple more:
https://ello.co/join/queen-outoftheway-189a05
https://ello.co/join/in-before-eaglet-games-ee1afd
@cblimes Well I used the second one and it worked but what is does then is give you someone as a friend who you don't know… oh well. So how can we friend each other?
@Kidsandliz If you know their Ello username you can type it in the URL and click the 'friend' button. Like this: https://ello.co/hallmike Another way to add friends is to look at your friend's list of friends and add people from there.
@Kidsandliz Why did you use one of those when I emailed you one as requested several hours ago? Now you've wasted one of my invites.
@Pony I have just emailed you all of mine.
@kidsandliz, i clicked on the x to remove you as my friend :)
up above, they said all you need to do it go to the url: https://ello.co/pattih, if pattih is your friend and click on the add friend.
@cblimes ADD FRIEND!!!
Here are the codes I got. @pony said to go ahead and post them here:
every-adventures-sound-f16121
chains-mean-pulling-15ba88
worth-poison-some-4ae18d
tonight-know-same-lost-471abd
mind-knuckles-verses-7cfbe2
@Kidsandliz thanks, I used the Mind-Knuckles code
@Kidsandliz thanks!!! I (think I) used the poison one. I'm Mrsbeny over there :)
@Kidsandliz thanks I got in with chains-mean...
@Kidsandliz Thanks, I used the every-adventures code.
@jmhsrv Try one of the ones in the main comment ^^^
Interesting that they seemed to jump to the alphanumeric segment of the codes. Many more combinations available this way. I still have invites if anyone wants them. Though tbh, I'm not sure it's worth it.
add me if you pleaseth: https://ello.co/katylava
@katylava I do pleaseth
@katylava me too
@katylava added via woozy
The Ello.co face reminds me of my Roomba.
@katylava
I think there may be a niche for a "anti-social network". It could be called "Mehspace.com".
@ruouttaurmind Sweet, nobody owns that domain, mine now. "Anti-social network" - Invite only, no connecting profiles. Private blog format where you just bitch to yourself about stuff. No external social media connections.
I'm starting to think that ello is just an extravagant joke being played by a cabal of particularly bitter hipsters. The good news is that no one seems to get it and the activity is low, so it's easy to keep up. But, yeah, I have to say that the mobile interface totally sucks. On a PC it's tolerable. It is, however, definitely meh, even on a PC.
@joelmw I wouldn't even call it tolerable on a PC. I can't even figure out how to upload my profile photo.
@joelmw @bluedog Interesting. I actually found it extremely easy to figure out and find the mobile interface better than the desktop though both are just fine. Took me less than a minute to find my profile and upload pics.
@Bingo I'm going to try from my iMac at home and see if I have better luck.
I've had strangers start following me. In trying to make them go away, I inadvertently started following them. Can't figure out how to reverse that. (The X didn't work). Advice: if someone with thousands of followers follows you, just add them to "noise".
@Bingo @bluedog I didn't have any trouble uploading pics, but I can't figure out any way to zoom in on a pic in the mobile interface. I find the font and much of the layout annoying--like a bitter hipster. Hence . . .
@Bingo There's also no way to share someone else's post, as far as I can see. And while I'm able to easily figure out most of what little there is that I can do, 1) there's not much I can do and 2) being able to figure it out doesn't make it either intuitive, pleasant or otherwise effective.
@Bingo I don't total hate it. I don't total hate the austerity of it. I just don't really love much about it. And I have to say that I'm more fond of most of my other social media platforms. I haven't given up. It might grow on me. And it is beta; maybe it gets way better.
I'd like to rescind the advice. Moving them to noise now means I'm following them. New advice: just ignore strangers. (Unless anyone knows how to unfriend someone in ello?)
@KDemo the X is how you unfollow someone. It's worked for me. There isn't really a way to stop someone from following you, though.
@Thumperchick someone on here figured it out. They deleted me from following them.
still waiting for my invite
@jmhsrv send me your email address, I'll invite you. invites@the1pony.com
@Pony thank you!
@jmhsrv You're welcome. :)
If anybody has another one lying around, I'd love to "get in it"
@Hypnos email me. invites@the1pony.com and I'll send you one.
If you need an invite - That gmail doc where the link was posted earlier (posted again below) in the post has 12 pages of codes.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18f5nLB8wIbk09Sawy01EPmr4H-Vxep4XxwpQjNswebg/preview?pli=1&sle=true
If one doesn't work (the red button will stay red rather than turn to green after you put it in) try another one
@Kidsandliz I think most of those are dead. I found this suspicous tool ello-invite.com (use at your own risk)
Had to add an n, which was expected, but I'm there. Woo...
@Mavyn nello?
@marklog jello.
I give it a solid "meh". With features similar to Tumblr or G+, it seems like just another blog-style social media site. Nothing really unique or special.
is this where I beg for an invite?
@marklog Did anyone give you one? I can't do a damn thing on ello from my phone, but I can get out my laptop and help.
@marklog I still have a few left. Send me your email address. invites@the1pony.com
@Pony thanks, just emailed
@marklog In spite of not being able to give you a code, I friended you there. It required little effort. :)
@bluedyn no, I friended YOU.
@marklog @bkuedyn so the two of you are now besties?
Would anyone be willing to share a code with me?
@lizbeth374 yep, post your email here and i'll send one
@marklog lizbeth374@gmail.com
@lizbeth374 sent. I have two more to give.
@marklog Could I get one of those?
@nasedase email please
@marklog dasenase@gmail.com
@nasedase sent
@marklog I clicked the link and it was blocked here at work. I went on my phone to do it and the email was gone.
@lizbeth374 resent
@marklog is it gmail unfriendly? I cannot find a new one or the first one. Can we change the email or did it get wasted?
@lizbeth374 click the "social" tab in your gmail.
@Thumperchick my social tab is empty. if someone would please send one to my yahoo, I would be so grateful beth25_2@yahoo.om
@pony thanks!
I am https://ello.co/mlog
@marklog Love the finger.
@jsh139 Just my little way of saying 'hey! Remember me?! I was relevant once!"
@jsh139 That's what she said.
https://ello.co/baron_von_danger
I might have one or two codes left.
anyone has LiveJournal code?
i promise to give it back once i get my 5
@username Pshhhh LiveJournal, I'm a unique and different outsider so I use DeadJournal(holy crap that site still exists, I was hoping it would eventually disappear and take my horribly embarrassing 14 year old emo ramblings with it) . You don't even need a code.
@JonT i thought DeadJournal needed codes as well at some point. or they had a limit on userbase or some such
@username Probably true but at the time I got into it when LiveJournal was huge in freshman year of high school the differentiator was not needing codes and being for goth/emo/edgy kids.
@username I can get you 60 free minutes on AOL.
Ohh, check out 'ey', the new Funny or Die social network, inspired by Ello. I got user #74!
http://www.funnyordie.com/articles/e5c07b3b5a/funny-or-die-presents-ey-the-elegant-new-google-doc-that-is-taking-on-ello
@jsh139 Well that was fun. #89 here.
@jsh139 - I'm 99. I skipped 92 thru 98 'cause 99 is better.
I want in please!! clonetek@gmail.com
@clonetek , aren't you glad we're friends? ;) If any one else needs an invite, let me know. I've a few to spare.
I would like to point out there's a site called "10 Minute Mail", a temporary e-dress that saves you from having to post your email for all the public to see. http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/
@KDemo This is also why meh needs private messaging and the ability to delete a post at any time, even days later.
@Kidsandliz - Maybe private messaging, but didn't you see 'Back to the Future'? Deleting an old post can change history.
@KDemo Change history? Good I have some history that needs to be changed pronto. I presume I can change history with the knowledge of the future so that when I have a redo I can do again more wisely?
is it just me, or does anyone else think they used "ello.co" just because you could read it as "el loco"? (which doesn't mean i wouldn't take a code if someone offered it)
never mind. no invite needed. i am https://ello.co/carl669
I'm an intermittent social media-er anyway, but I definitely feel like I've been cheating on meh by hanging out at ello. And I'm nervous she can smell the perfume (okay, hipster sweaty funk) on my shirt.
@joelmw
@JonT Awwww. meh is way more adorable than ello. I would never leave you, meh.
I'm on Ello. https://ello.co/keyeno
@Keyeno necromancer!
@Eris For some reason this topic came up as second to top on the forums for me. I posted before noticing how old the dates were. :P
I'm there, too, but not forever. Turns out I have invites to share as well. If anyone wants one, let me know.
@ACraigL I'm tempted, but still don't understand what ello is and why I would want to join.
@mossygreen there's always room for ello.
@mossygreen I'm sure everyone said that about facebook in the early days and uh.. myspace and whatever, just do it.