The relative time only bothers me on zing touch because you have to click on the individual post to see the date-time
― Jeff, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
a bot that bumps a random thread every day (and temporarily pins it to the top of SNA) with the text "did we ever get this sorted?"
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
I like that one. Extra entertaining on days when it throws up an old clusterfuck.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
we've got one of these already surely?
― Len Bincowank (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
did we ever get this sorted?
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
ilx is aching for a "ask darraghmac: did we ever get this sorted?" thread
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
I just feel that yknow we have a perfectly good random thread function, are we using it enough kind of thing
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 September 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
I Love Polls board.
For all the polls and their lovers.
― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Saturday, 24 September 2016 11:24 (seven years ago) link
every day when you sign in you are randomly assigned the username of another poster. you need to post as that person -- each poster's identity becomes an ongoing, collaborative performance.
― Treeship, Saturday, 15 October 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
I'm 80% sure you already had that idea
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Saturday, 15 October 2016 01:50 (seven years ago) link
No way dude
― calstars, Saturday, 15 October 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
maybe xp
― Treeship, Saturday, 15 October 2016 02:07 (seven years ago) link
Ideas for u: go outside, look at a bird, be a cloud
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Saturday, 15 October 2016 02:07 (seven years ago) link
Treeship you should dress up as Jorge Luis Borges and try to be him
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Saturday, 15 October 2016 02:08 (seven years ago) link
Ok we started. This is surprisingly easy. Jon is such a cipher anyway.
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 15 October 2016 02:15 (seven years ago) link
instead of fp, can we have a button that just puts a cap on how many posts a poster can post per day/week/month or something
― a but (brimstead), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
Ability to "like" posts - but every upvote costs you yourself a fp, so they'd be used sparingly. Then a button to display most-liked posts across all boards. Breadcrumbs to the gold in them thar hills.
Ability to edit yr post if nobody has posted behind you - generally, then, would be confined to fixing rypod.
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 03:01 (seven years ago) link
er, *typos
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 03:02 (seven years ago) link
Mandatory catchphrases.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link
randomised word replacement
― wanderly braggin' (seandalai), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
a spoiler tag that colours text white on white until you hover over.
― brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
Would require adapting for every style sheet
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:00 (seven years ago) link
would it? how many style sheets have a non-white background color? fuck 'em, make it work for the 80% (or 90% or 99%).
― brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
I'm definitely for this idea!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
in the old days we just used rot13
― kinder, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:18 (seven years ago) link
i agree, change is bad.
― brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
I was just thinking through how it might be done
Realized immediately after posting that oh yeah I just sounded like that guy
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:31 (seven years ago) link
change is bad, unless you're changing from a bad thing to a good thing I guess but when does that happen
― kinder, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link
i would go black on black rather than white on white so that you know the spoiler is there and don't accidentally mouseover something you don't want to see. though there's probably some weirdo out there with a black background stylesheet so maybe it has to be configurable
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:44 (seven years ago) link
This is turning into a terrible work meeting. I want a quick fix, no configuration!
― brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
Still want to be able to page people to threads, by saying @stet what do you think? or something.
Also, spoiler feature.
― pplains, Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:39 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ugh man pplains spoiler tags are always annoying and poorly implemented, plus then you get arguments about spoiler enforcement and blah blah, creates more problems than it solves
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link
Black on black is a good idea. I don't know how style sheets work, but could it just be told "take whatever the current text color is and use that"?
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link
possibly set tagged text opacity to a low enough value for you to see that there's text there but not enough to be able to read without highlighting (opacity back to full on hover)
― nashwan, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
black on black looks gross how about grey on grey, otoh this opacity idea might have legs.
god i hate meetings.
― brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
a soothing mauve on mauve would do wonders for the temperament of ilx imo
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
the people who use a terminal emulator stylesheet clearly don't give a shit about spoilers, is my foregone conclusion
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
black on black it is, somebody go do it
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
otoh this opacity idea might have legs
probably shit for older browsers and would need media query alternative for touch-select but tried it in dev tools and would work fine with any user-end method of classifying text
(I've already thought about this way too much for someone who would almost certainly never use it and dgaf about spoilers in general)
― nashwan, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Are any of the stylesheets pink? So why not use pink on pink?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
Working lunch! Jimmy johns is ok with everyone, right??
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
Wouldn't work on the mobile apps though. Need to spin up a separate epic for this offline imo
― stet, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
don't make ilx more like other message boards
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 25 January 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
otm
as an alternative we could just make all of ilx a ~no spoilers~ zone, strictly enforced
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
hahaha k3v and karl otm
all-time working lunch thread: Site Layout / Site Design
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
as an alternative we could just make all of ilx a ~no spoilers~ zone, strictly enforced― Karl Malone, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:37 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Alternate plan, make ilx a spoilers-only board darth vader is Luke skywalker's dad
― if young satchmo don't trumpet i'm gon shoot you (m bison), Thursday, 26 January 2017 12:26 (seven years ago) link
Better still, how about people who don't want to read spoilers don't click on the thread relating to that TV show, film or whatever.
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 26 January 2017 12:40 (seven years ago) link
do you realize how difficult that is
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Thursday, 26 January 2017 12:49 (seven years ago) link
not really
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 26 January 2017 13:13 (seven years ago) link
Is there a way to embed tweets?
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 08:51 (seven years ago) link
No, thank god.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 09:07 (seven years ago) link