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Post by Ben Grimm on Jun 30, 2024 6:13:43 GMT -5
Oh, Nabin’s coming back… great. Just a reminder if you’re considering seeing if AVC can recapture the magic, you can’t go back again. I've got zero illusions about it recapturing the magic. I just want somewhere to spend time on the internet during downtime at work.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jun 30, 2024 7:55:59 GMT -5
Oh, Nabin’s coming back… great. Just a reminder if you’re considering seeing if AVC can recapture the magic, you can’t go back again. On the one hand I can't think of a more appropriate film for MWoF's triumphant return than Madame Web. On the other hand he spends the majority of this entry talking around his barely concealed lust for Dakota Johnson, so, um, yeah. Also he confuses telekinesis and clairvoyance.
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Post by ganews on Jun 30, 2024 7:58:54 GMT -5
Would we all go back if disqus was reinstated? Or has the general decline become too much to bear? I never visit it from one year to the next these days - shame, as it was the first online community I ever bothered with. I've been visiting some recently with the same Kinja burner account I've had since 2016 or whatever (I swore off during G/O ownership), so I'm looking forward to a return to Disqus. But I have somewhere else online to socialize in work downtime, which I have much less of compared to a decade+ ago. I'd like to see an active commentariat in TV reviews again. I don't have time to trade witticisms on Newswire articles to pad my upvote/comment ratio.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jun 30, 2024 17:23:03 GMT -5
I could never get Kinja to work properly and gave up, which bummed me out because there were TV shows I really wanted to talk about with people! It would have been fun to pop up in the She-Hulk comments, where I did get a shout-out, but I was unable to respond to it and I feel bad.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jun 30, 2024 20:59:44 GMT -5
Would we all go back if disqus was reinstated? Or has the general decline become too much to bear? I never visit it from one year to the next these days - shame, as it was the first online community I ever bothered with. Bringing Disqus back would be better than what is there now.
But the commenting system isn't really the core problem. It is decline in quality of the writing. If THAT improves I may check out the site more often.
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Post by Celebith on Jul 1, 2024 1:58:58 GMT -5
Would we all go back if disqus was reinstated? Or has the general decline become too much to bear? I never visit it from one year to the next these days - shame, as it was the first online community I ever bothered with. Unlikely. Commenting systems are usually blocked on my network, or are fairly spotty. And open comment systems like Kinja / Disqus are too easy for drive-by trolls to abuse. I'm sure that some sense of community grows around these sites, but investing in them is not worth the effort. I'd probably comment on some of their FB content, but that would be the extent of it.
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Post by Nudeviking on Jul 1, 2024 3:23:46 GMT -5
I could never get Kinja to work properly and gave up, which bummed me out because there were TV shows I really wanted to talk about with people! It would have been fun to pop up in the She-Hulk comments, where I did get a shout-out, but I was unable to respond to it and I feel bad. There was some sort of alphanumeric code thing that Kinja gave me and told me never to lose. I copy pasted it onto a word document on my desktop and then like 2 days later my computer ate shit and died and thus ended my attempt to master the mystical art of kinjitsu.
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Post by Celebith on Jul 7, 2024 10:43:33 GMT -5
It's nice to see Will Harris interacting with the commentariat in the Andy Richter Random Roles chat.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jul 7, 2024 19:03:29 GMT -5
Would we all go back if disqus was reinstated? Or has the general decline become too much to bear? I never visit it from one year to the next these days - shame, as it was the first online community I ever bothered with. Probably not (and would need to make a new disqus account anyway). I’m not watching as much stuff, I’m going to be out of “the demo” this summer so new things just will be less relevant to me by design (to say nothing of the circus around them), and there’s just not going to be an interest in retrospective content (they had trouble supporting it when the site was thriving). I’ve ended up at Nabin’s page on the odd occassion there’s been something I wanted to look up and he wrote about it, but I can’t imagine actually going to a site expressly for this week’s column about watching awful stuff anymore. I can’t separate the classic AVC from the culture of the late 00s/early 10s anyway. A lot of funny stuff was dependent on context and being there, and viewed from outside it looks pretty different from inside. I remember when Tom Scharpling was reading through a bunch of (described-as) terrible AVC newswire comments and he had to stifle a laugh when he got to “I find this news difficult to masturbate to.” There’s no question that’s funny. I don’t know if that comment crossed a line, but I think a lot of people who approached that line wouldn’t even try to get there today. That’s a sign of maturity, but immaturity + erudition was what brought a lot of us there, and there’s no going back. I also don’t know if the comments would be any good given the state of media literacy now. The journalist Whet Moser noted recently that a lot of people online seem not to understand not just narrative ambiguity but really how to read narrative fiction anymore, putting everything into “good” or “bad” (or “right” and “wrong”). The thing is I’ve seen this happen with people who were fairly sophisticated viewers or readers—it’s a way of approaching fiction people have cultivated for whatever reason. That, plus the rising tide of Xennial curmudgeonliness, make me wonder how pleasant an AVC comments section would be today even when on-topic. I have to admit, though, that I really wanted to participate in one of those thick, rich, Mad Men-level comment sections when Shogun was airing. They had it at a set time week-by-week too, it would have been perfect!
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Post by Celebith on Jul 8, 2024 19:43:07 GMT -5
Would we all go back if disqus was reinstated? Or has the general decline become too much to bear? I never visit it from one year to the next these days - shame, as it was the first online community I ever bothered with. I have to admit, though, that I really wanted to participate in one of those thick, rich, Mad Men-level comment sections when Shogun was airing. They had it at a set time week-by-week too, it would have been perfect! This belongs in another thread, but since we're discussing it here, I much prefer weekly episode drops to the netflix ' dump it all on day one' model. It's not so much a matter of having time to digest each episode as it is a good week to discuss (or watch recap / analysis videos of ) them. Even missing out on the initial conversation, the weekly model leads to more content online. For example I've been watching / rewatching a bunch of Twin Peaks: The Return analysis lately, and while Lynch is one of those directors that nerds love to 'talk' about, most of those binge-drop shows are lucky if they get one or two analysis / recap videos.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 8, 2024 20:27:38 GMT -5
Gizmodo is now using spot.im.
I find that very amusing.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jul 11, 2024 17:33:12 GMT -5
Gizmodo is now using spot.im. I find that very amusing. Literal lol (also shocked they’re still around, or at least still in the comments business)
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Post by Hippo on Jul 12, 2024 2:09:33 GMT -5
I mean it’s probably a good commenting system when it’s not being besieged by a hundred bit-makers posting rapidly.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jul 18, 2024 8:44:38 GMT -5
So Disqus is back. Using the Brave browser, AVClub does not recognize my Disqus login (the Disqus site does, so I think its a security setting somewhere). Chrome allows me to login, but there are ads at both the top and bottom of my browser, which makes it near unusable.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jul 18, 2024 8:48:37 GMT -5
So Disqus is back. Using the Brave browser, AVClub does not recognize my Disqus login (the Disqus site does, so I think its a security setting somewhere). Chrome allows me to login, but there are ads at both the top and bottom of my browser, which makes it near unusable. Aha. I must have disabled AdBlock for the site at some point in an attempt to get Kinja to work (this didn't help). I feel bad blocking ads for the site, because I know that is how the writers get paid, but the other option is to not go to the site at all, because the ads really make it unreadable.
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Post by 🐍 huss 🐍 on Jul 18, 2024 9:48:24 GMT -5
So Disqus is back. Using the Brave browser, AVClub does not recognize my Disqus login (the Disqus site does, so I think its a security setting somewhere). Chrome allows me to login, but there are ads at both the top and bottom of my browser, which makes it near unusable. Aha. I must have disabled AdBlock for the site at some point in an attempt to get Kinja to work (this didn't help). I feel bad blocking ads for the site, because I know that is how the writers get paid, but the other option is to not go to the site at all, because the ads really make it unreadable. I'm using Duckduckgo's browser on my tablet, and I can log in to disqus there and the ads are hidden. haven't tried Firefox on my laptop yet, although I know I have problems with disqus on other sites because of some add-on or extension or security setting or something.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jul 18, 2024 12:44:00 GMT -5
Disqus comments within the AV Club page won't load in Firefox at all for me. I had to use, ugh, Edge.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 18, 2024 13:43:34 GMT -5
I finally arranged all my privacy and security settings on Firefox to get Disqus working on the AV Club site. Yay! Got it working even with AdBlock Plus enabled. This is now my minor achievement that I'm proud of for the week.
Edited to add: As mentioned above, I would love to disable AdBlock on the AV Club, but wow, their ads are completely obnoxious.
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Post by Celebith on Jul 18, 2024 18:44:27 GMT -5
Our work network blocks comments on AVC, Stereogum and other sites. They might all be disqus, but I think it's just a function of the adblocker. Probably just as well, as far as my productivity is concerned.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 18, 2024 22:09:12 GMT -5
It's Old Home Week in the Newhart obit. Even the Taco Bell Bell bonged! Maybe the last few years was all a bad dream. Maybe we'll all wake up next to Susanne Pleshette.
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Post by Hippo on Jul 19, 2024 9:47:35 GMT -5
Wonder if they fixed the moderation issues there, Ernie sucked at it.
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Post by Prole Hole on Jul 19, 2024 10:46:23 GMT -5
Whatever crap commenting system Gizmodo runs doesn't work on my browser. It's lovely.
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Post by Gumbercules on Jul 19, 2024 10:48:41 GMT -5
Wonder if they fixed the moderation issues there, Ernie sucked at it. ![](https://media1.tenor.com/m/2GUcl7wS_1EAAAAd/ernie-upset.gif)
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 19, 2024 14:07:59 GMT -5
I’m in. First people I saw were Alien Jesus and Kirk Cameron Left Me Behind.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 19, 2024 14:54:58 GMT -5
I was actually able to log into my Discus profile to comment at TOC. For some reason it says I only have 32 comments between AVC and the Avocado, and I thought I had more than that. The more disturbing thing is that, although I can go back and see the Avocado articles I posted on, every time I look for something at the AVC it gives me an AVC page that says
"404: We’re sorry, but the page you’re looking for doesn’t seem to be working.
Why not check out: The A.V. Club Homepage"
I fear our history is lost.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 19, 2024 16:33:08 GMT -5
I was actually able to log into my Discus profile to comment at TOC. For some reason it says I only have 32 comments between AVC and the Avocado, and I thought I had more than that. The more disturbing thing is that, although I can go back and see the Avocado articles I posted on, every time I look for something at the AVC it gives me an AVC page that says "404: We’re sorry, but the page you’re looking for doesn’t seem to be working. Why not check out: The A.V. Club Homepage" I fear our history is lost. In one of the threads yesterday, one of the employees was saying they are trying to recover all the old comments. He said they are visible if you go to the exact article link, eg the exact episode review, but they aren't tied to anyone's account anymore.
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Post by Hippo on Jul 20, 2024 0:26:00 GMT -5
If I didn’t show up would anyone care?
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Post by Frohman on Jul 20, 2024 4:16:23 GMT -5
If I didn’t show up would anyone care? I'd care.
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Post by Hippo on Jul 20, 2024 6:06:06 GMT -5
Okay then, I shall post! One comment though, I like seeing old friends even if I have nothing to say.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 20, 2024 11:13:28 GMT -5
If I didn’t show up would anyone care? I would care.
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