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jrmy wrote: - I come back for the following things:

6) Looking for LaoWiz / Out Sounds builds in the Shark Tank

That's sweet

As you know I don't post much there and mostly on Instagram. Also, for a few years I hardly built much at all due to getting a desk job and shacking up with my lady that came with a family. Been building more over the past year which has been amazing for my brain but still mainly for myself for the most part. Still have more than a few things that I want to do small batches for like an expanded Systech Overdrive that I'm almost done with circuit wise so hope to post that up here at some point. Might do another run of Error Machines and a few other off kilter or obscure circuits at some point and with my speed meaning over the next couple of years

Since building for me slowed down in 2013, I hardly ever posted in the Shark Tank since then and I've found Instagram to be super easy to post to. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but when I post pics here I usually have to resize in photoshop and then post to imgur in order for it to be sized right on the pages here and then the pics never look sharp when I do that so it's a little annoying. But really just being lazy.

I never post a lot to any forum but I still love this forum dearly and visit it daily as it's like checking the news to me...

LaoWiz wrote:Still have more than a few things that I want to do small batches for like an expanded Systech Overdrive that I'm almost done with circuit wise so hope to post that up here at some point.

LaoWiz wrote: Since building for me slowed down in 2013, I hardly ever posted in the Shark Tank since then and I've found Instagram to be super easy to post to. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but when I post pics here I usually have to resize in photoshop and then post to imgur in order for it to be sized right on the pages here and then the pics never look sharp when I do that so it's a little annoying. But really just being lazy.

Our forum software is badly in need of an upgrade.

Chankgeez wrote: Forums are so last year. They were even "so last year" last year. Other social media platforms are preferred these days.

In summary, forums on their way out & other media on the way in.

This might have been covered already... catching up on the thread, but forums have been out for most of ILF's existence. I'm not sure other media is a major contributing factor. Contributing sure, but not the whole story.

For me, ILF is very important. I don't have many genuine friends in life, and the friends I have from here are amongst those few. When I was at home with baby raptors and couldn't play out I could talk endless shit about music and still feel a connection to creativity, to likeminded-souls.

But I don't hang here as much.

There are more and more threads that I don't care about, more and more pedals that make me meh. And that makes me feel sad. Part of it is spending more of my free time making music. Part of it is working at a computer all day, and hating the feeling of sitting at a computer on my free time. Part of it is just loving the gear I have - I honestly couldn't give a fuck if some other pedal comes out because the noises I can make are exactly those noises I want to make. And somewhere it feels like getting jazzed about new gear is part of the thing with ILF. Or any gear forum for that matter, but I dunno, I've only ILF'd.

For me, I think the forum needs a better mobile interface.
Chats go so slow here, which is wonderful in a way, but also frustrating. I'd like to be able to get chatty and chummy and engage in witty banter from my phone.
Some way to embed memes and shit. I mean, copying and pasting and using forum code isn't exactly taxing... but I'm used to just clicking shit in whatsapp, and now it feels like a barrier.

I also feel that ILF got a bit... I dunno. Like, people get in on secret santa and hope to hell that they get Montreal Scott, or Small Brian Big Brian. Small run ILF shit gets flipped on reverb because hype. BILF prizes are the reason to compete in BILF, not the fun of making rad boards. No-one gives a fuck about McDonald's trays with a Dwarfcraft fuzz and three Dano pedals and a Boss reverb.

Maybe I'm just an old dinosaur staring at the Yucatán and wondering how big the crater is going to be. Maybe all of the above is just cloud shouting. :shrug: maybe I've just outgrown ILF. There's nothing wrong with the place at all, it's just not my place any more.

But I don't want that to be the case. Because this place was/is very dear to me.

6 foot turkey out.

goroth wrote:No-one gives a fuck about McDonald's trays with a Dwarfcraft fuzz and three Dano pedals and a Boss reverb.

Want...

Chankgeez wrote:

LaoWiz wrote:Still have more than a few things that I want to do small batches for like an expanded Systech Overdrive that I'm almost done with circuit wise so hope to post that up here at some point.

LaoWiz wrote:
Our forum software is badly in need of an upgrade.

I made Systech OD boards last summer but instead of making a clone I've added 2-3 controls and some switches, goes from light OD with hint of filter to massive synthy fuzz sounds. Option to add cross over distortion which makes it sound pretty fucked! Hopefully will post in Shark Tank in the next couple of months...

BILF is fucking stupid. There I said it! I finally said it! To me it's the most pointless thing we've ever done on ILF. I only participate out of a feeling of obligation (which I am probably making up in my head anyway).

SS is awesome though. What I like about the SS is that I get to buy people stuff who may or may not be able to get something cool previously. I could care less if a builder had me, I've owned all their shit anyway, so it doesn't matter. haha. Almost every year I've gotten someone and said "oh shit! I was hoping I'd get them". Like when I got Ryan from Dr. Scientist. I was fucking thrilled! I spent waaaaayyyy too much on him but I loved the dude. My ILF peps are my fucking heart man.

I feel like this place is one of the only places I can go and say HELP ME! I'M FUCKING LOST! ILF has always been great to me and that's why it makes me sad to see older posters go bye bye and people gradually drifting.


The forum has always been old looking and out of date, but I actually think that's part of the appeal of it. I don't want a mobile site because I want to put my phone in a garbage disposal. I don't want updating because then I have to learn another new thing, and I'm fucking tired of learning new things ok! I'm getting old! Maybe not as old as some of you, but I sure am cranky still.

You know what would be cool? Hosted builder Q&A's like Reddit does. Reddit is fucking old too and there's a metric fuck ton of people on there. So forum are NOT dead, this one just needs some sprucing up.


I'd donate money to make that happen. I bet a lot of you would. Even if it means I have to learn something new.

On one hand I'm all for a forum upgrade, but then a certain amount of the appeal of ILF would be lost. I love the idea of the ILF Discord, but I also prefer the archival nature of the site, which is what brought me here in the first place (and probably oodles of others, too). Though I don't reach out as much as I'd like when I'm down, the Happiness thread is always worth a read, as is the Spite/Rage thread, so I can totally side with that part of ILF feels all the way.

When BILF was happening, I was wondering why ILF proper didn't have an Instagram account, if only to boost traffic this way. Sure it would probably be a loss leader/time waster (like all IG), and I don't even know how we could work out a permission/post scheme (per week? per people going to NAMM/ILF type events? a raffle?), but it could drum up new recruits, at the very least! I mean, ILF is already a known term to regulars on most trading sites/forums (TGP, Reddit, Reverb, etc.) that touch on fuzz/etc., so opening it up couldn't hurt, right?

ILFMAS is truly wonderful in every way, and the stalking is probably the best part! The history/knowledge base is deep here, so it's always wonderful to share that love with other heads when we can The same could be said for all the charitable causes that come up between the years, apart from Xmas, which is pretty effing great. And I know that it's kind of understood that any place that's been around this long has it's share of highs and lows in terms of participation, but that's why it's great we're taking it all apart instead of walking away like so many other forums (dust in the wind).

Here's to a few of the wandering former ILF comrades I can think of (InvisibleMan, $harktooth, ryan_summit, sonidero, nieh & even comsact2.no) - jerking the cirq in the sky, Jedi-style - why not?

I liked $harktooth

Where did he/she/they go?

Also I would totally follow an ILF IG

We have a thread of IG names somewhere. I follow mostly ilfers and damers as well as the #ilovefuzz hashtag. It is great IG.

retinal orbita wrote:I liked $harktooth

Where did he/she/they go?

Also I would totally follow an ILF IG

I pm'ed him the other day. He said he's doing good but doesn't come around much. I told him we missed him and to not be a stranger

Comsect got banned I guess

comesect's still goin' strong:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le48hnA3cu4[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le48hnA3cu4

Reading through this thread made me a little sad because I never want ILF to die. This is by far one of my favourite places on the Internet. I don't have a lot of friends in real life with common noisy, fuzz related interests, which is why I like coming here. I am on here daily. That being said, I don't post a ton and rarely participate in group conversations, but that's not really because I don't feel like part of the group; I'm just stupidly guarded and suck at making connections with people. I don't know how many times I've typed something up and then deleted it because of some nonsense (anxiety or something? I honestly don't even know).

Anyway, I don't think this place will ever truly die; you're all too great to let that happen

dog willing, i'll die before ILF does. this place and Dead Net Central are my online homes, and i'm not going anywhere.