By Enzo on December 15th, 2008
Update 12.22: Turns out, I hate Vanilla. I’m looking for a better alternative.
Update 12.20: The forum is up and running at its most basic level, check it out.
A couple of things. I was going through the web statistics for Cheer Up, Emo Kid this morning and noticed a ton of links from Plurk.com. Turns out, it’s just another social networking site, which I can only describe as Twitter on crack, and I was intrigued, so I signed up. Unfortunately, nobody I know uses Plurk, which brings me back to the question — who’s linking to CUEK? HUH? Come out of the woodwork and add me. =) I’ve always like as much as possible to keep in touch with people who comment on my work and stuff, so I wouldn’t mind catching up with a few more faces. (And also, I have no friends. SELF-ZING.)
Who came up with the name Plurk, anyway? As cool as the social network is, the name leaves a little to be desired. You can say “just Facebook me”, or “hey, did you catch my Twitters?”, but when I tried out “I’ve been Plurking for the last few days” it sounds like I contracted some sort of stomach infection. But I digress.
Secondly, if I were to make a message board, would anyone post on it? I’ve fucked around with phpBB in the past but never really had enough content to justify the software, so I was thinking of adding something more lightweight (like Vanilla or bbPress) because I want it to be a repository for visitors to come and post their own depressing stories. Kind of like a PostSecret/OneSentence thing, except you don’t really have to be anonymous unless you want to be. The pitch is that if enough people like your story, I’ll make it into a comic strip! Woo hoo! Yes? No?
Thirdly, watch this if you’ve ever wanted to get revenge on your ex-girlfriend.
Anyways, I’m heading down to Cali tomorrow for a day, so the strip for Wednesday might be late. In the meantime, check this out. A Canadian man built a robot girlfriend.
Cheers, guys!
- I did, I do, I will
I would totally sign up to your message board and post there. Something about people sympathising and sharing their depressing and most often amusingly embarassing stories is awesome!
nevermind the chance of an experience of yours being turned into a comic. Sweet cheese! D:
Coool ! I actually have it set up already, I just haven't linked it anywhere yet so
Still can't decide between two different forum softwares. . . We'll see ! Lalala
yooooo yeah dude put up a message board. that sounds awesome!! plus people can help you generate new ideas! and who knows where it will end up – gaylock's fairy story – WOWA WEE WAH!
HAHAHA! Zing !
Ya make a message board…
Which part of Cali BTW…
I live in Los Angeles!
I'm still trying to figure out which software I want to use =X
I went down to Redwood City, south of San Fran so kind of a ways off and I only stayed for a day so
Hahaha ! I bet you're LOVING the gas prices down there lately. (Assuming you drive :O)
Making everyone over here's life easier…
It was almost at $5 once…
That's friggen terrible, my god.
Hey you got some fans at Plurk! xkcd has an account (http://www.plurk.com/xkcd). They post their shit there. I think having cuek do the same would be a great idea. Just a thought. Anyway, great work. I'm an instant fan.