Ideas for ILX

If I wanted to search for your posts, I'd click the "posts" radio button under the search box and type displayName:"call all destroyer"; I might order by newest posts first if I was looking for a recent post.

any chance of being able to order the list of boards on the board page?

guh dan i'm going to have more dumb questions later because i can't figure this out but want to leave work badly.

destroyer, you need to use the *lower* search form. just scroll down...

This counts as a minor annoyance but it would be good if it could be fixed. The multi line "add a post" box on the blackberry does not wrap, I.e. Until you hit return you write one long line of text that horizontally scrolls through the box, it would be great if whatever fag that could be set to make text wrap could be set.

ban every1 get new posters

ok, so this started because i wanted to search for user "dada" who wrote the only reply on kraan's ilm thread. so if, using the second search box, i just type "dada," select the radio button for posts, and order by newsest first, i get kbp's posts from mid-july when he was using the disp name "some dada."

otoh, if i do what i think dan was saying and enter 'displayName:"dada"' and keep everything else the same, it actually searches POSTS, not users, for "dada." and this is def in the lower search box.

so um what am i missing? thanks ilx voluntary tech support.

I was talking about the top search box, the text search (which is the only one I use). I switch the radio button below it to posts and do 'displayName:"whatevs"' to find posts by user whatevs.

Sorry for creating confusion! I will let ppl who actually use the "search by user" box answer from now on.

k so if i do that in text search with my example i still get the newest kbp posts, not the guy who thought kraan was mediocre. maybe there is no way to do what i'm talking about?

you could ask dada for his login email and search by that

mostly i just wanted to see if he was still around since the post was from years ago. but this is not the first time this has happened to me w/punned usernames and search.

Can we have the ability to change our votes on polls? It seems that once we vote, if we select anything else and re-vote we're told we've already voted and can't vote again.

wouldn't it just be easier to search for kraan?

POX: Krautrock

Anyone else getting large white spaces between some topics on the new answerspage?
like this
http://i32.tinypic.com/2u422wz.jpg

its been happening for a few days and keeps appearing now and again.
Im using old.css: Original ILX2 Live Stylesheet

it's because of the characters in rabies' username

ahh ok, thanks Dan.

haha its really funny that its "cheetos" thats singled out there

is it possible to make links in posts automatically open in a new tab/window?

just middle click them

i get kbp's posts from mid-july when he was using the disp name "some dada."

And you consider this a bad result??

it's because of the characters in rabies' username

This seems to happen every time Jrabies posts to a thread. Maybe someone should ask him to change his username?

xpost if i want your posts i know where to find you!

Hey, how about threads existing on multiple boards? So like a thread could be on both "I Love Everything" and "I Love Film"? Or "I Love Comics" and "I Love Cooking" if it's some cooking-related comic?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UKZle04oFnc/SFdGKUPYevI/AAAAAAAAAqw/FjFvQ5Jhf4Q/s400/dope%2Bexploding%2Bhead.jpg

YOU JUST BLEW MY MIND

Or in some cases, a heady melange of I Love Cooking, ILTMI and Thread Dump

"heady"

Here's an Idea:

Search page:

Any chance of adding "thread last updated" date to the result, when you are searching threads?

What happens at the mo is you get loads of similarly named threads for, say, "Kraftwerk", and you end up clicking each to find the most relevant/up-to-date one to add your new comment/info to.

If you tap "most relevant first" when searching for a thread, I think the threads will appear in the order they've last been updated, so the one with the newest posts will be the first result.

I guess there should be some sort of explanation what "most relevant first" actually means, it took me a while to get it.

Been enjoying the various music writing threads of late -- how about the re-emergence of an I Love Writing board?

xpost Yeah, but what is "Relevance"?

Date last updated? Number of messages already in thread?

Actually, both of those would be good. They used to be on all threads on "New Answers" back inthe day.

idea: a "View Next Page" link at the bottom of an abbreviated page to go with the "View Previous Page" at the top

it would be really cool if ilx could have a bikini babe of the day displayed on the "boards" page. just a thought.

idea: a "View Next Page" link at the bottom of an abbreviated page to go with the "View Previous Page" at the top

Actually, this already sort of exists. Just click the "Permalink" button on the last post of the abbreviated page and it'll give you a new abbreviated page starting with that post.

ooh, resourcefulness! I like that

(not sure if this has been covered)

Can we have a "results 1-10 of n" thing on the search results page?

maybe on a user's profile: "see last __ posts by this user" where __ = a #

Hey I was just thinking it would be nice if when you searched, the page would tell you not just when the threads were started but when the last post was. That way, for example, if there are three threads on ILM about a certain band that just put out a new album, you can see which one people might have been talking about the new album on.

cosign last two requests

It would also be helpful if the search page told you how many total posts were in each thread. I just revived a credit card thread, and the main thing slowing me down was trying to find one with a decent amount of posts in it.

idea: in the search page instead of entering a date range have an option of all threads in the past week

It would also be helpful if the search page told you how many total posts were in each thread. I just revived a credit card thread, and the main thing slowing me down was trying to find one with a decent amount of posts in it.

― OLIGARHY (Z S), Monday, August 31, 2009 9:47 PM (1 week ago)

maybe if this is too much work, can the most recently updated thread be shown first? like, if i'm searching "momus" i'd like the most recently posted-to thread to be the easiest to find, instead of digging thru 5 pages of threads

An easier way to browse the lesser-used boards would be nice. Right now the only way is to search for most recent updates week-by-week. It's not an issue on ILE and ILM, where there are always a hundred or so threads up on the new answers page, but on say I Love Books there's no easy way to see what's been discussed in the not-quite-immediate past.

I was gonna suggest a preview post option - but after searching this extended page, 4 people already have. So - I fifth that.

xpost I agree, especially for the AF and IPC boards, they are near dead but I'd still really like to more easily browse through older threads.

I'd like to be able to search a particular board like in t' old days, so you don't get 17 pages of results from I Love Everything when you search for a band name that happens to be a common word.

CP, there's a 'Search Board' drop-down list, just select ILM on that.

On the search page I should add.

Oh right, so there is. Has that always been there? My powers of observation are weak.

I think so, but my brain tends to avoid looking down beyond a certain point too, so I couldn't swear to it.