Ideas for ILX

bumping of old threads is one of my fav things about ilx

otm

sic otm too

Searching by date without any other search criteria - like let me see threads started in a date range.

Also while I'm on date searching - the date fields on mobile bring up a calendar instead of allowing text entry, meaning if I want to search by date for something from 2006 I need to click the back-a-month button 100 times.

Then when I move to the next date field (for a BETWEEN search) it defaults to today's date so I have to click it another 90 odd times.

I don't think anything was deleted, was it? Am assuming it just got dropped from New Answers

― stet

idk, i read soda's post in the thread delete request topic and assumed the thread was actually deleted

commendations to the mods for addressing the issue so rapidly. i did see the thread in question because i didn't click on it or pay much attention to the title because my whiney-sense tells me that i probably shouldn't click on any thread he's bumped. honestly didn't register with me that it was transphobic. again thanks to soda; i'm grateful to not have had to be confronted with that old bullshit firsthand.

unfortunately i guess a side effect of that is that it's maybe a bit tricky to piece together what actually happened, but karl, trust me, it was nothing you did.

xp thanks, neanderthal! that clears it up, thank you

wait what happened???

people who are not whiney

unregistered these ideas are seditious

― silby, Thursday, April 16, 2020 9:58 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

agreed, time for someone to spend time in the reneducation camp

― dip to dup (rob), Thursday, April 16, 2020 10:01 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

With long threads as well as 'Skipping xxxx messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all, 'can we have a 'view previous 100 messages' as otherwise alternative is to load the full thread?

― Dan Worsley, Thursday, April 16, 2020 2:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

1 - click permalink on the first post AFTER the cutoff (the one you want to scroll back from)
2 - On that new page where that post is the first post shown, decrease the number in the URL that's "bookmarkedmessageid=xxxxxx" Usually dropping it by 200 or 300 will be enough to get you back to where you want, sometimes you have to lower it by 1000 or so. So for instance your message the messageid=7539647, so if I were to lower that to 7539347 it would load messages starting 300 posts back. I believe that post number is site-wide, so that's "300 posts back" counting all posts made on ILX, not this thread.

I still have all those categories somewhere; we could put them back

― stet, Thursday, 16 April 2020 21:16 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Glenn should run a clustering algorithm over all the ILX threads to come up with inscrutable categories like "escape room" and "pineapple soufflé".

brb registering everynoisethread.com

idk if this one has come up, but a small indicator on a board to see which threads i have bookmarked and which i don't would be cool! (mostly bc i have like... almost everything on ILG bookmarked and i can't remember which ones i don't haha)

There is probably one or more good reasons for this, but why doesn't ilxor.com host images, even if only for a week or month (so that we could post straight from our devices)?

i would guess that it's expensive to do, especially given that there are free alternatives (you can upload an image to imgur from your device and get a bbc-formatted link, although it's one more step i guess)

another possible reason is that if ilx hosted images i would get sternly worded emails warning me about posting enormous, memory-sucking extreme high-resolution extreme close-ups of nose hair of assholes, politicians, and the assholes of politicians

Aside from the bandwidth expense, I wonder if stet would be fielding loads of takedown notices if ilxors uploaded copyrighted images.

It’s a surprisingly fraught security risk - and more importantly it’s potentially really expensive in bandwidth. Those are the main two reasons. But I might have an idea of how to do it; have been looking into it for a while.

Then we can finally get avatars

if it only hosted an image for a week or month wouldn't that exacerbate our broken img problem?

im ok with no ilx img hosting

^

Same.

I’m interested in hearing about stet’s clever idea!

let the image posters survive by their wits, stealing from the rich (internet jerks) to give to the poor (ilx)

otm

No pics please. It’s more fun watching people fuck up embeds

"Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in."

would be nice if this had a link to the results post in it so we don't have to 'show all messages' (which is trouble with long threads)

That's no problem, you can just hit "home", since it's always the first post- it's getting back to read the followup posts that's troublesome. It's often been suggested to have System post the actual results in the update post, and presumably stet would have done this long ago if it were easy.

if you're using bookmarks then the only post you see is the thread bump so hitting home won't work.

the argument in favour of pics is the sheer amount of broken shit we get in the old threads – and the security holes when bad actors buy those domains

If someone's not going to upload a photo to imgur and use that link, why would they bother to upload to an ILX internal server?

Not talking so much about photos on your phone, but finding photo links from the web and changing the URL to those.

it's the "photos on your phone" case I'm mostly thinking about tbh.

Are there any image hosts that automatically shrink phone photos to a reasonable size, for inline posting purposes?

you can do it within imgur but it's kind of a pain (you have to hit edit after you upload and tell it the new dimensions, and plus it tends to reduce the quality of the image for some reason, even though it shouldn't)

"skip to bottom" link at the top of every thread

No pics please. It’s more fun watching people fuck up embeds

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:21 PM (yesterday)

agreed

Y’all have a weird definition of “fun.”

are you only just noticing this

ILX is "fun" in the way that watching other people lose at 3 card monte is fun.

we are all the shill

whatta maroon

Thumbs down, i don’t want ilx to become more 4chan-like

i get so freaked out every time "avatars" get bandied about

otm, plz no

I would enjoy 16x16 pixel avatars

maybe that's for a different forum than this one

emojis

it's the "photos on your phone" case I'm mostly thinking about tbh.

― stet, Thursday, June 18, 2020 9:25 AM

So could I start a thread called Content PP on the HTML board, and curate it as my personal imageshackesque account?

emojis

https://i.imgur.com/Ql7iJJX.jpg

i need $5 for the final push

Leave ILX as is. If you are truly craving avatars, emoji, and picture hosting galore, drop by and say hi on poxyfule.slack.com