Ideas for ILX

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

xposts that's more or less all people talk about here now

oops, no one gave kev access to the i love dating board

were all just getting tons of dates

*legume's capuchin monkey falls over dead*

i tell everyone you guys are my girlfriend

we are

turn FP back on pls

It's the people who need to turn FP back on, darragh. You have the power.

I FPed that post for good measure

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Dates_on_date_palm.jpg/411px-Dates_on_date_palm.jpg

low-hanging fruit.

wasn't fields of salmon FPed into a temporary ban? The people still have a voice

unfortunately I think it was a mod request that did that

mods had to step in after he slipped through the systems meaty paws

in that case, change is needed. revolution ilx style now!

who is lenin?

did lenin enjoy hotdogs?

loved em