could "show images" be on-page rather than or, in addition to, being in preferences? i shift between the two very regularly either image or youtube-heavy threads. maybe others do, too?
flopson suggested this some time back and I still think this would be massively handy, if it is at all easily done.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Thursday, 23 August 2012 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
ZING ZING ZING
we need badge notifications
and we need search function for zing
― the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 10:16 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah zing not having search, or the random function, is slightly frustrating for me. I use random when I'm bored but thats usually when i'm in bed and thus, using my iphone :( I know stet explained something on the zingthread as to why its not there but I forget now.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Thursday, 23 August 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
I thought of one this morning: if the default search results ordering option was "newest first" rather than "most relevant first". I dunno, I guess there could be some argument for the way it is, but that's not how I use search.
― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
being able to hide threads from boards we don't care about (like, I really don't give a hoot about cricket, NFL, baseball etc) would be awesome.
― Here's that tenner I owe you, asshole (dog latin), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
You want this:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/CustomiseSiteNewPostsControllerServlet
― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
ah i didn't know about that, but strangely I must have seen it before because all the sports threads are unticked and still I'm sure I get a lot of them appearing in my feed. Maybe not?
― Here's that tenner I owe you, asshole (dog latin), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
I get sports threads appearing in my feed on Mobile Device Interface sometimes, but not when I'm ilxing on a computer.
― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
zing you cant customise SNA on i think is why.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
ah that'll be it
― Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
You can customise SNA on Zing -- just swipe right to left on any board you want to remove, and it'll hide on SNA too.
― stet, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:28 (eleven 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, 23 August 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
we've asked for this before and I think Stet was ambivalent but an ipad version would be fantastic
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
This isnt doing anything for me :/ I have the original freebie ad supported version, would that be why?
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
Aye, that'll be it, sorry
― stet, Friday, 24 August 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
All good! Got yr message as well, and thanks :)
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Friday, 24 August 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
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), Friday, 24 August 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
people should when spolarized just think to themselves 'thus is life' and proceed w/an unshakable sense of equanimity
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
when I read a spoiler I just tell myself "all that will be has become"
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 August 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
'the circle of life is now complete, jah rastafari'
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
How is having a spoiler tag any worse than when someone goes SPOILER...............Here's the thing, dude was fucking his mother.
― pplains, Friday, 24 August 2012 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
Also a good way to hide images. "Here's ten pictures from the World ILX Meeting you missed. Click on the spoiler tag to see each one."
― pplains, Friday, 24 August 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
OK, instead of a single "Skipping x messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all" link, maybe we can paginate them? For example, if x = 100, then we could jump to page 1 or page 2 (assuming each "page" contains 50 messages).
― Pilot Inspektor Leee (Leee), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
each page should contain at least 5000 messages tho
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
So hiding threads is a no go? Just curious.
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
would pay 20 bucks for zing iPad
― the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
What's wrong with the web site?
― ledge, Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
Be more specific?
― Bobby-fil-A (WmC), Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry, was reply to the late great. When I first got iPad I kept on thinking "where is app for [website x with iPhone app]?" before realising I could just use the website.
― ledge, Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
needs retina support
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
nah j/k
i just thought it would be cool to be able to swipe back and forth and around the way facebook works on ipad or whatever
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
i find web clumsy because if i miss my click-point i get an automatic zoom in on, i dunno, someone's funny emoji or a date/time stamp or formatting help
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
i could imagine an iPad zing in the style of the twitter app
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 27 August 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
or facebook,sort of, w/ boards at left instead of users?
― the late great, Monday, 27 August 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Ability to use search function to search within a thread, as opposed to just single thread title or post. For example, a Within Threads search for
pizza AND tacos
would bring up threads in which one post reads "pizza" and a separate post reads "tacos".
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 08:18 (eleven years ago) link
multitouch gestures (for suggest ban, etc)
― the late great, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
webcamera that recognises when you are enraged, flicking the vs, etc, and flags posts accordingly
― v for viennetta (c sharp major), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 09:30 (eleven years ago) link
facetime for 1p3
― the late great, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 09:44 (eleven years ago) link
ILX needs a new style of dock connector
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
ILX should use the new YouTube embed style so I don't have to install flash
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Saturday, 6 October 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
Just bumping to garner restate my support and to solicit ideas and feedback on a "Hide Thread" feature.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Could we get a button where if we push it we simply cease to exist?
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
lol. I was going to post "If you could push a button and a thread would simply cease to exist, would you press it?" as the revive, but I reined in my impulse.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Friday, October 12, 2012 11:33 AM (4 minutes ago)
PLEEEASE. I've been begging for this for, let's see, 26 months now.
― WmC, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
What I'm asking here is, Stet, what would we have to do to make this happen? I would happily double my annual contribution to the server funding drive.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not sure giving more money for the server would generate free time for someone to add a "Hide Thread" feature
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
would be possible with a greasemonkey script (cf user killfile) EXCEPT for the method of specifying the threads you don't want to see, which would be trouble.
i envisage the same thing would be trouble if done on server (although similar to bookmarks)
― koogs, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
the bigger question is "what does a Hide Thread feature look like?"
- how is the functionality invoked?- how do you unhide a thread?- is there a limit on the number of threads you can hide?- is this functionality invokable on a batch of threads or only one at a time?- what happens if you hide a thread you have previously bookmarked?- are hidden threads removed from search results for threads/posts?- are hidden threads removed from blog view?- can a user follow a link in another thread to a hidden thread, or should the hidden thread always appear as if it has been deleted?- are hidden threads filtered out of all locations (New Questions, Site New Answers, board answers) or are they left in some locations? - if you post to a thread, then hide it, should that post appear when clicking "My Recent Posts"?
etc etc etc
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
site new answers and boards have the threads as <li> and a greasemonkey script would typically search through all these and hide the <li> which have a link in them to a hidden thread.
i'd put a link next to these list items that'd hide the thread in question. unhiding it would be more difficult.
search results are different, bookmarks are different, recent posts are different. but, i'd argue, all those are places you'd want to see 'hidden threads' - you've potentially gone looking for them. (and could help with the unhiding)
blog view isn't and would have to be a special case.
― koogs, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
can we get a button to suggest that a poster be banned
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link