Ideas for ILX

Tim Geithner

buzza and unregistered are semi-famous?

in the same way that special darks are semi-sweet

Almost semi-famous

Don't want to reveal too much here, but buzza is a former US President xp

We've never had a former president that was either special-dark or semi-sweet, highly doubting any of this.

with stet mentioning the hassles of funding the site i was wondering if a rolling voluntary sub style model a la patreon had been considered, presumably less administratively demanding than periodic fundraisers altho that may be wrong, i have no clue.

i'd buy an ilx funding t-shirt

Oh shit that’s not a bad idea.

http://teespring.com

?

a wall o' gina patterned bowling shirt

wear it to your NASA press conference or whatever that was

A feature that provides a textual précis of embedded YouTube videos so I have some idea of what my valiant workplace is preventing my delicate eyes from seeing.

i really think we oughta end youtube auto-embeds

Ability to enter a Login ID and get a list of every screen name that person has used.

― Oren Zombarchi (WilliamC), Monday, April 14, 2014 2:55 PM (1 year ago)

I think this one occurs to me out of the blue every year or so.

and every other login id theyve used as well

and their phone number

not enormously important but the board new answers link on each thread on SNA ("last updated n minutes ago by username on <board>") links to the www-less hostname from the www version of the SNA page, which is confusing when you think you're logged in and suddenly you're logged out

sorry if this is wrong thread, did not seem like a mod request or a protest either. thank you for reading

if we're just not meant to use the www version of the URL any more, hmm, that's doable but will take some clearing of browser and muscle memory

btw it's been doing this for a week or two or maybe more as I wasn't logging in much for a while but I forgot to say so

and if it hasn't bothered anyone else in that time it's p. low priority obv

i have also noticed this and been mildly annoyed.

ya nbd but at least a year. browser-related?

Should be fixed now

It is (for me, anyway); thanks very much!

frequently, clicking on a link in a thread sends me back to the top of the thread i'm already in. a second click on the link then takes me where it's supposed to. this has been happening for months - not a big deal, but i'm curious now. me? ILX? or mozilla?

^same

shd've specified this is only on links to other ilx pages

this happens to me when I've been away from the computer for a while

SNA looks odd at the moment. i see:

undated section with a dozen posts
Footcelsior - last updated 2 minutes ago
...

Last on Friday, 11 September 2015 15:02 (one thread)
And so it starts..... - last updated Yesterday

Last on Saturday, 12 September 2015 14:31 (a bunch of stuff)
are autechre and squarepusher taking the piss? - last updated 2 hours ago
...

Last on Friday, 11 September 2015 23:59
The Best Free Online (in-browser or downloadable) Games - last updated Yesterday

(everything after this looks normal)

A poll where you have to choose a digit and results are shown as the average score

scale of this poll type should always be same so comparisons can be made between poll results

Android app

Using random thread function, pick the liveliest looking candidate from the first page of returns and bump with "did we ever sort this out?" regardless of conclusion of thread heretofore

How have I never clicked that link?

"Chameleon" feature introduced but only waterface can use it. He would have the ability to post under any username.

Not chameleon I guess so much as shape shifter. Other users can habe other superpowers too, all designed to cause maximum havoc

racing stripe

an iphone stylesheet that actually looks good? unless I'm missing something

Still think it's a good idea to have a poll type where you have to choose a value on a scale of 1-10 (or 1-77) and results are shown as the average score

it would be really useful to be able to order thread title search results by *most recently updated*

^^

prevent users from ever being able to change their usernames. I hate having to keep track of who's who.

Be able to change the number of posts a thread will show before going to "Skipping #### messages at this point, click here to read them all" mode.

"Fishbowl" discussions. Some threads will have just 10 or so users posting, maybe people who know a lot about the given topic, but everyone can read the thread. Then there will be another thread where everyone else discusses the "main" thread, scrutinizing posters the way commentators do after a presidential debate.

i think it would be cool to print out ilx and house it in a reference library somewhere remote like marfa, texas. the collection is accessible to the public but you can't check out any of the files. the librarian's salary is paid for through the yearly drive

dibs on librarian job

Some classic threads could be made into podcasts. Each poster would be voiced by a different actor. No celebrities though, we should support struggling artists

Maybe one or two could be performed live. The dialogue would just be the thread but other aspects of the performance -- the setting, costumes, the actors' gestures and intonations -- would put all of it in a different context. Like, the discussion might be about mia but thats not whats really going on with the characters

Maybe instead of performing threads as plays, we could film them as porn parodies. (Again, we'd hire outside talent for this).

was with you until that last post

wtf is a porn parody