Ideas for ILX

Every day, somewhere in the vast expanses of all the ILxes, the plaintive cry of "Tracer Hand to thread!" can be heard, more in hope than expectation. The rejoicing when he appears, it is something to behold.

Gimme 50 or 100 search results per page instead of ten. I'd rather scroll than click (rejected Reynolds Girls lyric).

― grown-arsed man (onimo), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In long threads, enable loading of say 50 messages at a time instead of having to load them all.

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

go back to how it was in the old code where posts were coded so that their permalinks were numbered serially, not randomly

also would be cool to see chronological list of threads by board

holla February 2005 - December 2006 IRE

Maybe a separate board where mods can put completed ballot polls.

Gimme 50 or 100 search results per page instead of ten. I'd rather scroll than click (rejected Reynolds Girls lyric).

― grown-arsed man (onimo), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In long threads, enable loading of say 50 messages at a time instead of having to load them all.

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

go back to how it was in the old code where posts were coded so that their permalinks were numbered serially, not randomly

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:13 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know I post this like monthly, but it's super easy to do this manually. Click "permalink" on a post, and then you can just reduce the number in the URL where it says "bookmarkedmessageid="

It takes a little trial and error to get to the exact right spot, but reducing it by a thousand or so is usually good enough.

many websites rate the security of one's password as it's typed. There's a little meter that changes from red to yellow and then finally to green as more characters are added. I'd like a real time meter of otm next to the submit button.

also, precog mods that ban ilxors before the offending post(s)

this is reminding me of a project I started last year but didn't finish -- there's a toolkit for identifying people based on their grammar and syntax. was planning on making a web browser extension that'd learn who users are, and then be able to guess who sock puppets might be. anyone else, feel free to take it up.

if there is going to be an otm meter, then surely there needs to be a set of otm bar charts that track individual user's otm ratings so that we can have quarterly stack ranks

that would let us do away with FP because at the end of the quarter you could just auto-ban anyone who isn't hitting the otm target they agreed to in their yearly development plan

xp should also be able to translate a post into another poster's style or perhaps a weighted sum of several posters' styles

^^^ love this idea

make a nabisco post read like deeznuts wrote it

ILX should say "Your bookmarked thread has new answers" when I first open the page if in fact one of my bookmarked threads has new answers

maybe I could choose from some celebrity voices, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger's or Ned Raggett's, so it feels like I know a celebrity

Unlimited display name characters with marquee animation

http://i.imgur.com/ekLIw1R.gif avatars pls

Sufjan otm throughout

ty for the support, mac dragh. But if I could just upgrade your account to ILX GOLD, I wouldn't have to say it tbh

I don't know if this is feasible, but some way of tagging threads? Non-obtrusively. You only see the tags if you want to. You can browse by tag.

Didn't there used to be drop-down menu for categorizing threads? Not by board, but by "Politics & Govt", etc.

Noize board had their own, like FFZZZZZZZZZZ NO CAN DO or whatever.

Yeah, there were categories in the old pre-Keith code, but I don't know how useful they were. But being able to give a searchable tag to threads that have comedy/unsearchable names would be nice.

• Bring back Ask Chaki

remove "ask" from that sentence and there you go

what if we brought back chaki but he was only allowed to post on the ask chaki board

think abt it

sometimes at night, when ilx is most quiet, you can still hear chaki zing

― omar little

You made that sound like the title card of a Wire episode.

a way to ask for 77 access that works

ILX soda

jumpsuits

done

hire hoos as ilxor big data analyst so we can evaluate long-term trends in ilx posting habits, determine the optimal day of the week for your polls to end

No.

ilx barge off the coast of san francisco to showcase cutting edge 2014 ilx tech

ilx t-shirts that list your personal "top 5" posters

ilxor island

ilxor space station (and grill)

Ban 'em all, let mods sort 'em out.

mandate that every poster flag at minimum five posts per day or else five FPs are automatically added to their account

everyone should leave, leave forever and never return.

ilx should start all over again with a new colony of whoever finds us.

maybe leave idk cankles here dormant, like in alien.

nb this idea was best carried out a year or two ago, obv.

this place is not a place of honor

more nothing beside remains tbh

basically we need to add twelve hours to every day so I can follow ilx and post to it

i'm sure this will require some complex work to the rotation of the earth and gravity and stuff like that but it makes sense

^ tuomas mode of request iirc

this place is not a place of honor

profound lol

/duane = http://i.imgur.com/oCCMY.gif

Less awesome ads for non-logged-in users, please. Why should they get the bonus content?

http://i.imgur.com/yrzBlyw.png

a way of turning off bookmarks until the previously bookmarked thread is back on-topic and not full of talk about, say, pizzas.

I want the inverse of that

suggest chipotle

Out of curiosity, how often does the tracking for read threads get reset? More in the spirit of this thread, can we give an option for users to mark an entire thread unread?