Ideas for ILX

As I've been staring at the Mad Men and Curb Your Enthusiasm threads today and trying not to click them (since I haven't seen the latest episodes yet), I've been wondering if a Hide Thread feature would be useful and/or viable. I mean, I can always just keep exercising willpower, but other posters might have their own reasons for hiding threads, even if it's just because the title gets on their nerves. But there would have to be a way to get them to appear again, too.

This would be nice, but structurally at least it's running against the design choice of having different boards. If I'm not interested in, eh, AFL (whatever that is), I don't have to have that board appear on my SNA. I like the present system of not having topics too carefully shuffled into separate boards---IL*E*---but then it would be nice to skip all the kinds of threads on ILE that I don't care about.

ILX threads can get so fast that it's more like chat than forum, so even 2mins can be way too long.

― stet, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:00 (1 month ago)

That's for some threads. For others, Rolling Reggaeton and Salsa, Rolling Whirled, Chitlin Circuit Soul, and Reggae Dancehall 2008-2009 there are barely any people posting. How do we more fans of these genres to discover ILX and post here? :(

How do we get more fans....

Maybe if I proofread my writing.

I guess that's not really an idea for ilx---hmmmm, wonder how to bring partisans of these other genres to ILX...

It would be neat if you could change your vote in a poll. Before it closes, I mean.

cosign that! Sometimes the lobbying and stanning is very persuasive.

you can already vote like once a day iirc

once a week iirc

it's more like once every two days tbh, or at least it seems like it

it seems weird to me that when you start a thread or poll, it's possible to type a title or poll option that's longer than what will appear on the actual thread. like, if you type "The Gettysburg Address, Delivered by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863" into the title box, it'll get truncated to "The Gettysburg Address, Delivered by President Abra" or something like that. it would be nice if you got a message along the lines of "YOU HAVE EXCEEDED THE 60 CHARACTER LIMIT FOR THREAD TITLES, YOU DUMMIE" when you tried to type something that long. either that or just make the box shorter so it's not even possible to type such a long title. just a thought.

good, good

yeah that is quite annoying

cosign the bookmark hiding. i don't use them for update notification so it's a bit annoying having to scroll down past everytime i'm signed in.

ahh that click permalink to view previous page (rather than loading the entire thread) is a godsend!! i realise the bookmarks are supposed to cater to this but it'd be a nice alternative if "view previous page" was another option in the "skipping x messages" red box.

Sorry if this has already been covered - what do the different bullets on the New Answers pages mean?

i realise the bookmarks are supposed to cater to this but it'd be a nice alternative if "view previous page" was another option in the "skipping x messages" red box.

Seconding this; quite often open a 1000-post thread to discover that apparently I last read it like 4 posts before the new start.
(Mostly read ILX logged out, so no bookmarks, and if it could do this for logged-out readers too that would be great)

nate: one type of bullet for threads you've read which have new posts since you last read them (while logged in), the other type for threads you're up-to-date on or have never looked at (while logged in)

"(while logged in)" caveat is in case you are like me and mostly reading logged out

ah thanks

someone might've mentioned this already, but it'd be nice if instead of just the "load all messages" option, there was also a "load all recent messages" option so you don't have to scroll through the whole thread to find the beginning of the recent bump

what do you think that 'view previous page' link does? 8)

i have images off, but when i click on a youtube link it goes to this full-screen thing that sucks and doesnt even work on school computers. any way you can just have the normal youtube url show up instead of the /v/ thing?

In Search Results view, can y'all make it display how many posts there were in each thread?

^and also show when the most recent post was, in addition to/instead of the date it was started..

Would it be possible to add keywords/metatext to threads to make them easier to search for?

feature request: i want to hide my bookmarks

― crabRCISE (gbx), Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:59 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

cosign the bookmark hiding. i don't use them for update notification so it's a bit annoying having to scroll down past everytime i'm signed in.

― r|t|c, Friday, September 25, 2009 4:52 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

people gave me shit when i brought this up somewhere but anyway, thirding this

Ability to turn images and youtube embeds on/off on a thread-by-thread basis.

HELL yeah

unban Jordan

FUCK yes NOW we're cookin with grease

i wld like to know if board-specific suggest band is feasible

would be badass!!

board specific auto adding of kaos ani to posts

i dont know if this is feasible but

it would be cool if, when youre viewing a thread with posts hidden or that you've had bookmarked, and then you post something to it, it doesnt load the whole thread again but just goes back to how it was with your post added to the bottom???

sometimes this is a prob when its a huuuuge thread with 10000 images. just asking

i think it only does the first and last 50 posts thing rather than the entire thread, but even that's a pain.

Ability to set certain threads not to Skipping 1403 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all. for certain threads...

Reason: When returning to the "80s" poll thread, the function to go to last read post doesn't work as it's in the 'skipped' section, and when after "load all", the thread thinks the last post you read was the last post on the thread, so you have to return to "somewhere in the 1403 messages"...

Oh yeah, and the "enter username/password" on the SugBan.

what the fuck is this fuckin AD at the top of site new answers imploring me to vote in some kind of ILM poll

lets put the kibosh on this asap, imo

can you make an ad that goes at the top of site new answers complaining about the other ad?

see if yall had only listened to us pollhaters this abomination would not be upon us now

unseemly imo

and could someone put an announcement on top of site new answers saying that no boys are allowed to post in the no boys allowed in the room with a picture of a male stick figure with an "x" over it?

I've always wanted to push for an ILX Treehouse, but in this economy...

could there be a cute animal of the week that appears on top of site new answers?

i wasn't planning to vote in that poll but now wild horses couldn't stop me, i'm a sucker for intrusive exhortations.

can we get various robots to read out ilx posts like on The Net starring Sandra Bullock?

i'd like them all in a 7 Zark 7 voice

it would be awesome if we could see our SB total (kinda like our # of posts on the boards page).

have people not talked about this by now? i kind assumed it would have been. thinking it would maybe open up a can of worms like trying to figure out who just SB'd you and revenge SBs and a brand new way to have clusterfuck threads. the idea sounds practical at a glance, and i dunno maybe could illuminate SBable behaviour, but makes SBing a little less opaque and anonymity seems pretty consciously built in to the SB system? or else why wouldn't have just have that feature instead of that rolling SB total thread?

arby's OTM about the dangers of an instant SB notification

Have it updated monthly instead.