Ideas for ILX

increase the maximum number of poll options

ugh, no, 50 is too many as it is for OPO polls

Being able to enter 1st, 2nd, 3rd choices would be better.

polls shouldn't be threads. They should be pop ups. You are required to vote in every new poll before you may read threads. A password to the threads is provided after the polls.

While in a thread, there should be a scrolling marquee with poll updates

I miss the limitless poll options.

Favorite Guided by Voices or Guided by Voices related song

a tool to run borda-count polls as is the common ballot poll format on ilx would be pretty cool and something I've periodically considered writing but I don't write code for fun anymore

polls shouldn't be threads. They should be pop ups. You are required to vote in every new poll before you may read threads. A password to the threads is provided after the polls.

― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, August 27, 2014 4:35 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

what ilx needs is more popups

we were promised avatars

read that thread the other day I was otm in it as usual

thx 4 pointing that out

I didn't know if you'd had time to read it all thought you'd appreciate a precis

ya i mean i wasnt planning on reading it

i wanted to poll "the brit box", the box set of british indie c. 1980-1999 that everyone hated

THE BRIT BOX POLL

DO U HATE IT?

-YES
-IT IS BAD
-I AM BRITISH

i can't turn my poll into a box set

I've finished my GM script to reset a user's read threads -- if there's any interest, I'll share it, but where to upload it? userscripts.org is dead.

I'll wait for a non GM script you Monsanto devil

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Image hosting so that you could more easily post pics and not have as many dead links. Has this not been done because of costs?

http://imgur.com/ !

imgur will probably be sold in the next 2 years to some major

Pretty much costs Je55e. We shift an amazing (to me) amount of bandwidth and that's just text.

how does ilx bandwidth compare to other message boards? it seems like there are a billion phpBB forums out there, and ilx is relatively clean and feature-free by comparison (or so it seems to me). is our bandwidth exceptionally large for some reason? audience size?

fuckin post length

I'd love to know what sort of page views other big forums get, does anyone know? we used to be quite high up a list of biggest forums, but the sourcing on that seemed suspect to me.

Emoji support anytime soon? As in, it is possible to post/create threads w/ emoji unicode characters in them

yeah emojis only work in display names currently right?

Oh, thanks, stet. I didn't see that you'd replied.

imgur is good and very easy but images expire unless you have a pro account. I guess it's important to me that my pics of my cats endure for longer than a year. I would use Flickr but it's become a pain in the ass, especially on iPhone.

dropbox

^^^

I bet we could do emoji, but we'd need to watch with the right-to-left switch and other fun stuff.

imgur is good and very easy but images expire unless you have a pro account

oooooh, i didn't realize - i thought they just stayed up no matter what. i just checked imgur's FAQ and it says "As long as images are getting at least 1 view every 6 months, they will stick around forever." so that's decent, but i guess if you have a thread that doesn't get revived for several months/years (aka most of my threads) the images would disappear on occasion. bummer!

ilx cld have a script that views dormant threads every few months

ilx could just hire someone to do it. i, for example, would gladly go through dormant threads in a systematic fashion in order to make sure that the imgur images don't get deleted. someone's gotta do it...

lol

Kickstart that, Karl!

ok but just to put all my cards on the table i'm going to be asking for funding for coffee and chips and salsa as well. funding these important food groups will pay for itself in the form of my increased dormant thread reviving productivity

maybe i'll just make it so that the reward for the fundraising target is that i do the job sort of and complain a bunch, but if the stretch goal is reached and i get the chips & salsa and coffee than i don't complain so much as i'm doing it

did it all for teh gifz

Dropbox linking is now cuntish iirc the copy public link option is hidden away cuntishly

it is a right click away

not on an android phone :(

You can't get the public link on the dropbox app on an iPhone iether fwiw

i-ether

hah i had a post going off on that too but i deleted it

maybe drew houston will be on stage with bono tomorrow

i'm going to turn this into the apple thread now

my work blocks ilx because it thinks it's a dating site. why

what u dont get tons of cool dates off here sucks for u man

ive gotten some very excellent dates off here let me tell you yep lots of good quality dates