MI, Pitchfork and digital disappearances

[Mower Liberation Front]

Yep. Those were the days. 

[Anvil]

The only thing I remember from the Kerrang forums was a mod who thought Lawnmower Deth was the greatest thrash band ever...

[Thorn]

Oh. Mower?.Were you secretly part of the Big K team???

[Anvil]

Didn't post much, read more.   Vim Feugo was their user name, I think, but they went on about Lawnmower Deth a lot.  I might be misremembering.   

[open face surgery]

Vim Feugo posted on MI as well.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Didn't post much, read more.  Vim Feugo was their user name, I think, but they went on about Lawnmower Deth a lot.  I might be misremembering. 

Yeah, I remember Vim, I think he was from New Zealand, he was the biggest Lawnmower Deth fan I ever came across. There was a bunch of us ended up setting up countries on that Nationstates eons ago, his country was named Lawnmowerville.

[astfgyl]

Isn't there a Vim Fuego on here as well somewhere?

[Pagan Saviour]

Would anyone here that wrote anything for metalireland still have digital copies of their work? Would it be worth creating a space for it on the site here?

[astfgyl]

I think that'd be cool enough but I'm sure it has been brought up before and nothing came of it

[Mooncat]

This is a somewhat related, depressing, but very interesting read. Makes you all the more glad that little golden corners of the internet like here exist!

It's an article about the 'enshittification' of internet platforms (FB, TikTok, Amazon, Google etc), how they start off really useful to their customers, and the gradual process of how they end up passing all those benfits to their shareholders at the expense of customers and businesses. Really worth reading the whole thing. If you were thinking about giving up social media or the like, this might give you the push you need!

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

[hellfire]

Yeah, it's a pity the user data model is so lucrative. Myself and I'm sure a lot of others would pay to have a tracking free option. The trouble is that makes a lot of data sets incomplete.

[Pentagrimes]

Would anyone here that wrote anything for metalireland still have digital copies of their work? Would it be worth creating a space for it on the site here?

I had most of my interview for MI online elsewhere for a bit along with other bits I did for other sites but I honestly can't remember if they're still up. And  I can't be fucked digging them out if they're not.


The big lesson from MI- and ye can all tell me otherwise but I won't believe you- is that certainly towards the end all anyone was interested in was the forum.

[Dark Stranger]

The Wayback machine is the only way to get it as far as I know. The closure came completely out of the blue even to the mods - we were certainly never told in advance. I asked CT if it could be reopened for a bit to get the Hall Of Fame threads saved but it was a no.

I think he was fed up paying for a site that didn't have a huge amount of engagement towards the end, plus it took so much time to run, and for very little payoff really.

[Mooncat]

How useful is the wayback machine? Like is it possible to piece together everything you want to retrieve or has it only saved snippets?

[Mooncat]

Yeah, it's a pity the user data model is so lucrative. Myself and I'm sure a lot of others would pay to have a tracking free option. The trouble is that makes a lot of data sets incomplete.

Be interesting to see if that value starts to decline though. People do seem to be vacating Facebook in droves, so I wonder will it ever return more towards the useful sign of things or would they just squeeze every penny until they have to put it down. I mean I guess Myspace still exists out there so I'm guessing they won't put it down...