Site Layout / Site Design

But just look at music sites. Look at their web 2.0 stuff they implement.

i would love to create and share playlists of my favourite threads

ilx is the best-designed site on the internet

I can't say I'm in a position to do anything about it right now, but what things would you do if it could be magicked into existence? I did actually have a development version of it with a bunch of web 2.0 stuff on it, but I kind of ran out of steam because it became clear to me it was just a "techfest", in that the things I was doing weren't actually of any real use (in fact, I think they made it worse). Of course, that might just be because I didn't have a bunch of good ideas.

we need numbers dammit. don't come in here without numbers.

ilx is in a prime position to become the next formspring. all you would need to do is change 'site new posts' to, say, 'site new answers'. there's heaps of money to be made as a formspring clone.

One of these days I might bring the stats thing back but do it like this:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/67759016/Screen%20Shot%202013-03-17%20at%2000.28.08.png

I NEED ANSWERS!

haha I Lo, I Lov, I Love

I Ra

guess papers

Yeah, what can you do! Taking out ILE and ILM:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/67759016/Screen%20Shot%202013-03-17%20at%2000.28.33.png

All Noise

Noize dudes all YEAH WHAT'S UP NOW

geez ip3 is smaller than de subjectivisten

I Rate Ever

a tag cloud on the front page would be amazing

let's all get matching tattoos of these diagrams u guys

JJJ, please change yr screen name to Moderato

I MUST on one hand, I MAKE on the other xp

lol everyone loves ilx design, its like a relief from how shitty the rest of the internet looks and handles. its just text. i turn off images as well. classic css. its like a simple sturdy object. a solidity to how you navigate it. click. backtrack. refresh. none of that weird sliding door effect of flash, the pages snap open with this satisfying click. why is this even a question?

i want all 9 of my facebook friends to know about this tremendous thread

― veryupsetmom (harbl), Sunday, 24 March 2013 21:56 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thumbs up for this post

+1

lol everyone loves ilx design, its like a relief from how shitty the rest of the internet looks and handles. its just text. i turn off images as well. classic css. its like a simple sturdy object. a solidity to how you navigate it. click. backtrack. refresh. none of that weird sliding door effect of flash, the pages snap open with this satisfying click. why is this even a question?

― plax (ico), Sunday, 24 March 2013 22:13 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not a question, it's a thread

Haha.

why is this even a question?

because the world's most impertinent web designer has just become our newest friend and has a lotta new ideas to share with us, hello, it's not 1992

what kind of a pitch is this anyway, let's see some mockups to choose from before we go live with this thing

kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n) i think you will find this thread intersting and informative ilx api

I Love Comic. I Love Book.

I did actually have a development version of it with a bunch of web 2.0 stuff on it

Please, please, please, for the love of everything in this universe, don't implement this.

Wow, I not seen that. I have actually done something of an ILX API though it's not live. An old one is though, e.g.

Site Layout / Site Design

what kind of a pitch is this anyway, let's see some mockups to choose from before we go live with this thing

Emily don't worry. I stopped doing it when I realised it wasn't better. I mean it was probably 'the same', but it was of no real value. Just didn't refresh all of the screen when it was loading threads/posts and so on. Nicer design on the front page maybe. I think the thing is, ILX is so light on stuff delivered to the browser and efficient in the middle tier that it's really fast, so the benefit of AJAX stuff to only load part of a page is much reduced compared to other sites.

can you ajax in a pic-heavy carousel containing the day's hot topics?

Haha

i can never tell which articles are TRENDING on ilx

just upvoted this thread

i can never tell which articles are TRENDING on ilx

I've thought about this one from time to time, and easy to do, but it strikes me it's self perpetuating, in that if you report a thread is 'trending' (however you define it), it's likely to trend more, so decided to leave well alone.

clusterfuckometer

Hardly needs technology help!

these are the trending threads fwiw http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/most-read-threads.jsp

Oh yeah I forgot about that. I suppose I didn't make it really obvious at the moment. It was one of the things I did do on the "web 2.0" version. The front page had a box with the top ten most read threads in it.

ilx needs a ticker updating me on breaking clusterfucks, ilx weather, and lolsiest quips of the moment

maybe we could team up with cnn and become iReporters, ilxReporters if you will. trending topics going to the front page of CNN and what not.

77 threads for subscribers only

big iframe the otm marker

heatmap showing geographic distribution of posters

america and not-america ('britishers')

world map of 'posters you've visited' omg people need to get passports in this country already

Keith wtf u hop around after this guy but wont give the hundreds of established and important posters who want sb back a voice

heatmap showing geographic distribution of posters

Hey wait a minute, I could do that!

this week i had to design a way for people to rate ratings. yes, rate ratings.

hah

but who will... rate the raters, oh this guy ok

just out of curiosity, not because i am collecting data on you or anything, how would you rate that task?

I definitely like the fact ILx isnt threaded. The closest comparison this site has is possibly Usenet, but I always found Usenet frustrating because of threading (though I know the reader could be swapped between threaded and flat convos but that was even more confusing!). Threading seems to just make people talk over the top of each other, somehow.

2/10 for the inherent lolz xp

otm, threading in usenet was always horrible, and trying to find anything is just a nightmare

Yeah its also why I find reddit impenetrable. I just cannot follow the flow of conversation one bit.

I imagine Crimhex is scribbling furious notes at all this.

^^^ only worth 5 Args while a crimson hexagon is worth 6.

― FINNISH HIM! Tuomas wins... (snoball), Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

had me loling

test.css 4 life

objectives:
monetize ilx

tasks:
register new user name

xp

"this lagoon fellow is CFO material"

Doctor Casino - do you have a Windows PC and an Apple phone?

Nope - Windows and android respectively. Using Chrome on the former and IE on the latter.

also, everybody OTM

crimsonhexagon is not taken just fyi

― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, March 24, 2013 5:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so much greatness in this thread, but for some reason this response just popped into my brain and is totally cracking me up.