Ideas for ILX

also it's been a couple years since we talked about it but time for avatars imo

I want to publish like three or four epic threads in book form. I've talked about this before.

It would be sort of like a novel: there are the conversation topics but the reaaaal story is what is going on between the posters.

get to print

i've also had the idea of writing a novel where the text was just fictional message board threads. it would be a lot easier to just copy ilx threads though

Just a bit of fun

* Bookmarks separated out by board?

That's potentially something greasemonkey could do give that the board id is in the url... Would need to lookup board name (or use a hard coded list)

Mind, I dunno how useful anyone but me would find it - just sometimes I'm looking idly but nonspecifically for a familiar I Love Photography thread to peruse, say.

android zing wld be v intersting!

plz to restore classic-style capitalization for the "two weeks ago" thingy?

please stop referencing post times to the current time and instead reference them to midnight of the forthcoming christmas day

i agree with Casino, looks yuck now

Absolute dates only.

Dates in kelvin

the time words force you to engage your slow thinking and ask yourself "will this zing be good if it is responding to a fifty-eight minutes old post?"

I like the relative timing - I feel like it's been this way since I came back? Y'all whinin' 'bout 'nothin

The relative time only bothers me on zing touch because you have to click on the individual post to see the date-time

a bot that bumps a random thread every day (and temporarily pins it to the top of SNA) with the text "did we ever get this sorted?"

I like that one. Extra entertaining on days when it throws up an old clusterfuck.

we've got one of these already surely?

did we ever get this sorted?

ilx is aching for a "ask darraghmac: did we ever get this sorted?" thread

I just feel that yknow we have a perfectly good random thread function, are we using it enough kind of thing

I Love Polls board.

For all the polls and their lovers.

every day when you sign in you are randomly assigned the username of another poster. you need to post as that person -- each poster's identity becomes an ongoing, collaborative performance.

I'm 80% sure you already had that idea

No way dude

maybe xp

Ideas for u: go outside, look at a bird, be a cloud

Treeship you should dress up as Jorge Luis Borges and try to be him

Ok we started. This is surprisingly easy. Jon is such a cipher anyway.

instead of fp, can we have a button that just puts a cap on how many posts a poster can post per day/week/month or something

Ability to "like" posts - but every upvote costs you yourself a fp, so they'd be used sparingly. Then a button to display most-liked posts across all boards. Breadcrumbs to the gold in them thar hills.

Ability to edit yr post if nobody has posted behind you - generally, then, would be confined to fixing rypod.

er, *typos

Mandatory catchphrases.

randomised word replacement

a spoiler tag that colours text white on white until you hover over.

Would require adapting for every style sheet

would it? how many style sheets have a non-white background color? fuck 'em, make it work for the 80% (or 90% or 99%).

I'm definitely for this idea!

in the old days we just used rot13

i agree, change is bad.

I was just thinking through how it might be done

Realized immediately after posting that oh yeah I just sounded like that guy

change is bad, unless you're changing from a bad thing to a good thing I guess but when does that happen

i would go black on black rather than white on white so that you know the spoiler is there and don't accidentally mouseover something you don't want to see. though there's probably some weirdo out there with a black background stylesheet so maybe it has to be configurable

This is turning into a terrible work meeting. I want a quick fix, no configuration!

Still want to be able to page people to threads, by saying @stet what do you think? or something.

Also, spoiler feature.

― pplains, Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:39 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh man pplains spoiler tags are always annoying and poorly implemented, plus then you get arguments about spoiler enforcement and blah blah, creates more problems than it solves

― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Black on black is a good idea. I don't know how style sheets work, but could it just be told "take whatever the current text color is and use that"?

possibly set tagged text opacity to a low enough value for you to see that there's text there but not enough to be able to read without highlighting (opacity back to full on hover)