Community | July 25, 2009 | 28 comments

Current Art and Style group relegated

source: http://current.com/art-and-style/

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Creativity on the back burner, fine arts programs gradually disappearing from schools, US education system archaic and irrelevant, and now Current demotes the Art and Style group.

Why?

No homepage love and no top menu love.

Is this the handy work of newly assigned Current CEO Mark Rosenthal?

Or have groups like the Movies group(no offense, jlichman) just taken priority over our beloved Art and Style group?

A&S curator, sgwhites, has been running her channel/group like clockwork, with nearly 500 contributors, and over 22,000 articles/items.

It's tragic and has to be reversed immediately, for our sake.

*to be continued...
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28 comments // Current Art and Style group relegated

  • arteazul
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      arteazul  

    • 'tis sad - similar to things like: TIME mag's 'Arts Section' - usually just movies and pop music. While those things are interesting, it is such a limited expression of all that creativity can be.

    • 2 years ago
  • meli8
  • SHAWN_RITTIMAN
  • wilmo1975
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  • EtVoila
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      EtVoila  

    • One time, I had a nightmare that Current removed the Art and Style from the homepage, and replaced it with a "Christian" section.

      Ughh. -.-

    • 2 years ago
  • mario_a
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      mario_a  

    • hey folks,

      the decision was made to pull both Gaming and Art & Style off of the homepage. it's pretty simple, we're a TV station and a website. right now our top channels on the current.com homepage correlate to shows on Current TV, but both Gaming and Art & Style did not.

      they both still exist as groups, and if you join the groups you should receive updates and even messages from those curating these groups.

      we have many more changes planned as we move closer to bringing the "community picks for TV" back to Current.com.

      thanks,
      mario

      online community

    • 2 years ago
  • couldntfindausername
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      couldntfindausername  

    • There certainly seems to be something very odd going on.

      The top-of-page menu now lists "webmash", "odd news" and "wtf" - which are all, so far as I can tell, the same thing. "Lovelife" and "sex and love", and "tech" and "upstream" would also appear to be pointlessly redudundant redundancy. "Entertainment" manages to get a look in. Conspicuous by their absence are such things as "news", "actual factual stories not just photoshopped for lulz" and "non-celebrity stories".

      The homepage is even more bizarre, spewing forth webmash, upstream and lovelife, again, with no news to be found.

      Is my interwebz broken or is Current busy jumping sharks?

    • 2 years ago
  • mario_a
  • couldntfindausername
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      couldntfindausername  
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    • couldntfindausername:

      I was referring to the green channel menu adorning the page, and the main body of the homepage.

      Unless there's some firefox compatibility issue I haven't heard about, the site now seems to be clogged with fluff - making the proper news and other mind-expanding content harder to access.

      By way of illustration, pointing the laptop at current.com leaves me one mouseclick away from orgasming turtles, but Vanguard requires a search except when it randomly appears in an buried at the bottom.

      Maybe Current are now going after a different demographic, but I would have thought Vanguard deserved more prominence than turtle spunk.

    • 2 years ago
  • Mob_Barley
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      Mob_Barley  
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    • Did you know that if you boil a pot of water and throw in a live frog that that frog will hop right out, saving his life to croak again another day (ha, ha)? If, on the other hand, you place a frog in a pot of cold water and turn the heat up slowly, that frog will stay in the pot. He will not jump out but slowly acclimate to the increasingly hot water until it boils to death. Truth or urban legend? To prove it I’d have to cook a live frog and that’s not going to happen. It sounds true and so should be because of what it teaches us.

      A women comes to see me for help. She tells me her story, sighs, and then says, “Really, it’s not that bad.” Oh, yes, it is! She’s sitting in a pot of very hot water. If she had been dropped into her intolerable situation all of a sudden she’d be saying, “Holy Cow! Get me outta here!”

    • 2 years ago
  • Nettle
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      Nettle  

    • Make room for the next homepage release. I'm not going to pretend to understand the technical details, but I trust they are making the right decision.

      And in all honesty, what will it matter if Art & Style isn't on the homepage for a while? Seriously. Will user submissions slow down? If people really like something, they will make the effort to contribute to that group. For example, my Otaku page isn't on the front page, but I've had a steady increase in membership and user stories since the groups launch.

      I can't wait for everyone to start crying censorship and conspiracy. >_>

    • 2 years ago
  • retro_Syl
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      retro_Syl  
    • Nettle:

      i know they still exist, i only stated that they've been demoted and it eerily resembles what our schools are doing to the arts.

      also, i came to current believing that it was a news forum by the people for the people.

      art and style has an overwhelming amount of submissions, responses, contributors, and relevance to our society; therefore, it belongs where it was.

      also, their removal of art & style from the top menu and the homepage sends an overtly negative message to all of us.

      oh, i love otaku, and if it were to gain as much popularity as the A&S group, i believe it would only be right to showcase it.

    • 2 years ago
  • DeliaTheArtist
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      DeliaTheArtist  

    • First of all, "make room" for what? Second of all, bookmarking the sections might be a solution for getting to the page, but not for the overall implications of what Current is doing and why, which I think is the real question here. Saying "It's still here, just not on the main page", no offense, is obvious! There are tons of groups on Current now, obviously the ones that remain homepage topics are the ones that Current wants to focus on. Thus, the first loss of Earth and Science and now the loss of Art and Style (I'm not that broken up about Gaming because I think there are enough entertainment/media groups on the homepage as it is) is alarming to some. Including myself.

      I love Current, but I certainly don't trust or agree with all of their decisions and part of the community aspect of the site is questioning their choices.

    • 2 years ago
  • current89
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      current89  
    • DeliaTheArtist:

      No offense meant Delia but if you had been in on the conference call which every alpha tester was invited to, you'd know. Current is gearing up for a big change, one most have been asking for.

    • 2 years ago
  • DeliaTheArtist
  • Mob_Barley
  • Nettle
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      Nettle  

    • OK, they haven't been dismantled either page. They have been moved. You can bookmark both pages on your browser and visit it just as easily. That's what I'm doing.

    • 2 years ago
  • ras_menelik
  • EtVoila
  • AlbeeYap
  • current89
  • arteazul
  • AlbeeYap
  • current89
  • DeliaTheArtist
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      DeliaTheArtist  
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    • I'm sorry but this is BS. First the Earth and Science section, now Art? You've jipped out SCIENCE AND ART, CURRENT?!? RLY? What are you, my high school?

    • 2 years ago
  • Nettle
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      Nettle  

    • Already talked to peeps. They're trying to save space on the homepage. The gaming channel (my personal favorite) has also been removed. Steph isn't going anywhere though.

      They plan on releasing the new homepage sooner than expected and needed to get rid of some items in order to prepare. The groups have not disappeared, they are simply no longer on the front page.

      As much as I really liked seeing these two groups on the homepage, I'll trust their decision and continue to visit both pages anyway.

    • 2 years ago
  • remanns
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