Ideas for ILX

it's 100 times more annoying than embedded tweets imo.

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 4 November 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Well, that's not the feedback I've been getting.

Nah it’s good, just post “paywalled” and i know to hit archive from the git

just type bleepborp and I know to filter the gaff into the meowbox

I like to pay for words. Both because I think that is a good thing to do (word-writing is work that should be compensated), and because I am a word-writer myself (who likes to feed his family).

But I also like to give words away, because I think that is a good thing to do. So if anyone wants a gift link to anything on WaPo, NYT, the Atlantic, or the New Yorker (and I think NYMag as well), hit me up.

I've been dying for years for a way to unfollow a thread I accidentally clicked into. I use the unfilled dot as an easy way to see what threads have unread posts, but I don't want to bookmark them because I also don't like having a long list of them at the top of the page.

Delete ILX 👍

Load 100 previous messages option. I noticed that the Saturday Night Live thread had got loads of new posts, but missed the initial posts which revived it, so had to open all 9000+ posts to see what kicked off the discussion.

That's a good idea.

I've been dying for years for a way to unfollow a thread I accidentally clicked into. I use the unfilled dot as an easy way to see what threads have unread posts, but I don't want to bookmark them because I also don't like having a long list of them at the top of the page.

this would be really useful. even better a killfile but for threads

Load 100 previous messages option. I noticed that the Saturday Night Live thread had got loads of new posts, but missed the initial posts which revived it, so had to open all 9000+ posts to see what kicked off the discussion.

This kind of already exists. If you click a post you can increment the URL to get earlier posts.

Step 1: Click the "link" tag at the end of a post.
Step 2: the URL of this new page will contain something in the middle that says "bookmarkedmessageid=8701535" (but the number will be different.)
Step 3: Decrease that number a little bit and you get the thread loaded from an earlier point. Usually 1000 or is a good number (so in this case you would change the number to 8700535).

What I would love for ILX (and I know this has been mentioned before) would be on the Search Page if you could order results by "Most Recently Updated", not just Most Relevant, Newest, or Oldest. That way if there's multiple threads on Godzilla or whatever you can find the one that people have been using recently.

yes! Newest AND most relevant.

there's already a kilfile for threads:

https://github.com/acdean/kilxor/blob/master/snatk.user.js

todo, check it still works

It doesn’t work if you use zing or the android app. Stet said he was working on a hide thread feature for zing for a future update.

Yellowkid, thanks! I will use that...

Following on from the opton to load X amount of previous messages, how about an option to just to the first message in the last 24 hours?

*jump to the…

can someone remind me what the trick is for searching a particular phrase? I searched “son of saul” (in quotes, looking for discussion about the film fwiw), and the results are basically any post with any of those words in them

I just did a search that looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/rHKDYFa.png

Many different posts and threads came up, but they all contained those words — Son of Saul — in consecutive order.

k3vin, you have smart quotes in your post and probably in your query. you probably want to disable that on whatever device you're using

(smart quotes are the goofy thing that replace the double vertical ticks with curved ones on either side of what your computer things is a quote)

To illustrate the difference...

Dumb quotes are straight, meaning that open/closing marks are exactly the same: ", '
Smart quote open marks are different from closing marks: “”, ‘’

ah interesting, thanks!

Is it too late to have an ILX NFT offering? Man, we shoulda done that.

still hodling my board apes

make the buttons bigger!

Write your own CSS :)

My stylesheet “teal_and_orange_dot_xls.css: ” has big buttons: https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/changestylesheet.jsp

It also has some bugs I will one day get around to fixing.

Bugs like, when I wanted to go back but clicking on "Change Style" didn't work anymore? I see what you're doing here - you want everyone trapped in a t&o madhouse!

Eventually it worked, but it took several attempts at clicking the Change Style button. It's a cool-looking stylesheet though!

That’s just a general browser caching issue for all styles on ILX, I find refreshing the page works to clear that.

I want to hide threads sometimes.
is that possible?

Yes. Use zing. It’s great.

Don't have an iphone and will never have an iphone so don't think that's going to work.

I don’t “get” Zing, I gotta say. Gimme the web.

it'd be cool if the page that lists all your bookmarks ever were in chronological order, with the most recently created or updated at the top or bottom

Oooh, that would be helpful. I hadn't looked at my bookmark page in a long time. Your post made me want to check it out and see if I could do a little pruning. Apparently, I have over 2,100 threads bookmarked! I developed a habit of just clicking "Bookmark" on the last post of any thread I read. I think I just need to clear them all and start over.

i do the same thing and i refuse to ever stop

huh i pretty much only view bookmark snas, but look at new thread lists every few days i guess. i don't even cut my historical bookmark list because stuff doesn't get revived that often imo?

due to this pattern, the distinction bw web and zing doesn't feel so big at least to me.

it'd be useful to me b/c sometimes i want to post in a thread i can't remember the name of and that i am caught up with. such a thread might be relatively active, but not active enough that it appears on SNA, so it'd be nice if i could find near the top of my list of bookmarked threads

I have purged all bookmarks a few times over the years as a cleanse