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I took the first part of the phrase as a modifier for the word pants.

oh, if only

i refuse to become further enlightened on this. a modifier of pants it shall be forevermore.

fuck fuck pants

A sturdy pair of canvas pants with extra pockets and some external loops for holding shotgun shells might be called Man Who Likes to Hunt Pants, meaning pants designed for the man who likes to hunt.

so tempted to start putting quotes from the GQ essay on here because it's seriously amazing

Seriously. People don't deny yourselves. Click the thread and learn about The Man Who Likes to Fuck Pants.

I've already learnt too much.

And by too much I mean, I've learnt that there's a guy who likes to fuck pants.

beware, loads of stet otm forthcoming

People are really good at conversations, the job of the software is to get out of the way and let them happen. But programmers seem to be unable to not see the messy randomness of human conversations as problems and starting thinking of shit like "can't we rate people? Or thread the display of posts neatly by their subject matter and their place in the conversational hierarchy, just as I do with all my personal correspondence?"

otm. ime ui developers in particular can get excitable and plug in a load of stunning effects that look utterly gorgeous in an international car show kind of way, but (a) were not requested by the customer, (b) were not requested by the designer and (c) are really really shitty for the average user to work with. i've spent entire weeks of my life breaking the hearts of good ui developers who couldn't bear to let go of their usability-destroying eye candy that nobody asked for.

I think there are two things about ILX's design, and they're interlinked: one is how it appears on the web, and the other is how it functions as a way of organising and storing discussions. The former I think is pretty good, but there's work could be done there

responsive design is ~the in thing~ this year, but ilx has been doing it properly since last century. it always looks consistent and behaves predictably on any device (mobile device interface notwithstanding, but that's a different subject).

the whole model of questions, answers, flatness, etc -- is something different, and I think that is one thing ILX has definitely got right. It gets out the way and lets people manage the conversations themselves.

biggest otm right here. getting out the way is an art from that too few sites seem to manage in their desperate attempt to be unique, or appealing, or mega-usable, or etc etc. as an example, medium.com seems to be heading back to genuine simplicity, but even then it's all six billion point garamond and fading-in text and other crap that pushes all the wrong envelopes. they can't help themselves.

marco arment (as much as he drives me up the wall in a gruber kind of way) is a big flag waver of keeping interfaces clean and simple, and eliminating anything that might work as expected 95% of the time (e.g. gestures). ilx has always done that. there is no easier message board to read—no avatars, no auto-refresh, no pop-up menus that leap into focus if you accidentally move your mouse over them, no fashion-week ajax shit.

i also love that ilx is not like every other bloody discussion-based site in the universe (phpbb, facebook, twitter, whatever) because it greatly reduces the chance of my family wandering in here and getting all up in my shit.

so we will be getting avatars when exactly

because i have a cool picture picked out

oh and i could write a whole separate post about the crazy and conflicting shit stakeholders would like to see in something that was always intended to be simple

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.