Site Layout / Site Design

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 thread is exactly why hannah arendt thought that decisions about technology should not be left to the technologists

http://wsbs.typepad.com/.a/6a016766723365970b0167679b9c0e970b-320wi

replace 'BUSINESS' with 'WRINKLEPAWS'

clearly all these threads need a comments section, i mean wtf ilx this is the 21st century

ilx is perfect as it is, really it should have fewer features

That's where my head is at...

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

really we should just turn ILX into a usenet group

or a gopherspace, gopherspace is where it's at

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Bob Marley

It did get me thinking that it was just Usenet in 1992 - rec.music.misc and alt.music.alternative.

Darraghmac tbrr

http://help.aol.com/Platform/Publishing/images/AOL%20Message%20Boards/msgboard.png

alt.everything.wallogina

dating more than 50 women would be a feat

from now on all thread posts must be in the form of vines

The Lighter Side Welcome to the lighter side of the message boards.

Should ILX have avatars?

thank you j for username, now let's inconveniently roll some posts under the fold starting with post #51

also, plax otm

Adding social media bullshit would be the worst thing ever, ugh

Bookmark//Flag Post//Permalink//Like//Tweet//Bob Marley

Just ctrl+f'd Keith's responses because there is a heavy ratio of signal-to-noise here.

Keith: I am all in favour of simplicity, as well. I think the site has many good qualities, so don't get me wrong.

The stuff I would change is really the things I mentioned, as they seem something I would hold in high priority, except for the blog text, which I agree is small peanuts.

Really, there isn't a whole lot I would change, but I would also add:

If you want a simple design, I think displaying less info would be better for readability. Clogging each thread title side by side with so much info is a little tiring to read; especially when they are so long. Color coding might be a way to go, but I would rather just take out more details from the thread lines in the thread list and maybe even have a thread be two lines: title and a sub-title where info such as user who created thread, time, last updated; really basic stuff like that. And let me be more specific, "Started" doesn't really need to be there, in my opinion. Neither does the whole "X new answers", because I never stay logged in, e.g. My cookies are deleted after closing my browser and I usually browse incognito. The time stamp works well. I would use something else instead of time stamp but this is personal preference. Something like X Comments would work better in place of this, for me, personally.

Enhancing readability and streamlining content is what I prefer. Like you say, cutting stuff out, which is strange that you say that, because there are so many subforums. Are all of them actually that popular that you need to put them together in a list with ILM and ILE? I don't know, just my 2 American cents (living in Yankee Land for now), otherwise I'd give you 3 more cents :P

I'm still trying to figure out what I think of your handling of skipping comments within a post after X number of comments.

Gonna get back to work now. Thanks for the reply

Bring back SB just for this thread.

can we have a gesture based interface. swipe to otm, etc.

xpost sb yes plz co-sign

I have lots of brilliant recommendations. But lucky you I will never have time to type then up.

I'm still trying to figure out what I think

kafkaesque I think you need to stop being coy. just ask keith if he will design you your very own ilx. that way you don't have to bother with all the bells and whistles that 99% of the rest of us actually use and/or pay attention to.

all these horrible suggestions

it feels like ilx got dragged into a shiny office full of beanbags and whiteboards

yes lol! that is the image, its like we're all suddenly in a meeting room checking our watches and repeatedly declining a pitch.

lets just take ten because i know some of you are dying for a cigarette so just grab a coffee or whatever and be back as soon as you can because we're running behind schedule.

http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/53/blog/images/marketing-meeting-agenda.png

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2503/4013043215_899235e531_z.jpg

Just ctrl+f'd Keith's responses because there is a heavy ratio of signal-to-noise here.

There's a reason we don't have an All Signal Dude Summertime Fun Board and Pickle Bar.

this place would be great without all the ilxors ruining my train of thought

now what was I saying?

we need a signal filter like maybe upvote arrows plus some sort of machine learning algorithm. can we crowdsource this?

i want integration with digg and maybe we can have a comments section at the bottom of each thread with gravitars?