Ideas for ILX

thx max; didn't think of that :(

I still don't know what the hollow bullet is for, I swear there's no correlation between it and threads I've clicked on having new answers.

If I had a modicum of self control, I would have wandered in here 10 years ago when Ned first posted the link going "ha, our friend Tom has made this site, check it out..." read it, going "wow, these people are mentalists" and never looked again.

However, me, I have this weird OCD that I can't stand seeing the little open bullet sitting there amidst all the normal bullet points and it irritates my sense of order so much I have to click on it to make it go away. ::sadface::

make everyone mods

All I need is one day. I will be the Countess Bathory of modding.

Although I like it, in that it tells me when threads I do like have new answers, what's irritating is that it gets tagged even when you click on a thread by mistake. Or if you click on a thread because you like the title, and then it turns out to be about FOOTBALL UGH and you can't make it gooo awaaaaayyy.

So sometimes I have to actually log out and look at a thread in order to make the little open bullet point not happen, in order to find out what the thread is before I figure out if want to follow it or not.

Welcome to the wonderful world of OCD, please wash your hands on the way out. No, really. And again, please, it will really bother me if you don't.

Can it be set up that wehn using bookmarks you can get the option to go back a user defined number of posts or to the start of thread instead of just previous page?

Current options 'View previous page' and 'Kill your browser' not good enough for you?

Or if you click on a thread because you like the title, and then it turns out to be about FOOTBALL UGH

:)

I was on the verge of starting a thread entitled "New Aphex Twin album in the autumn" and filling it with posts about how Liverpool won't win the Premiership, but decided against it.

I would actually hurt you, DC.

I know where you live.

;-)

I was thinking

"Check out this awesome Paisley pattern!"

then jpgs of St Mirren kit/Liverpool formations from 1979

"Aphex Twin's cock!"

Then pictures of Paul Scholes's cock.

I can kinda relate to the OCD thing. When there are threads that I'm forced to enter for mod porpoises, I hate that there's now a little circle instead of a dot telling me 'you're missing something! you're missing something!' It's not hard to quash that feeling, but I hate having it in the first place.

And managing hidden threads would be as easy as managing bookmarked ones.

xpost hahaHAAA

Actually, no one deserves that last one.

oh man I had no idea what those bullet points were for - this is totally going to change my life

Not for the better, it's just one more thing you have to take care in the daily slog of ilx addiction.

I'd like to see BBCode work like it does on Zing for iPhone, with buttons for bold, italic, etc. I have a BBCode extension for FF on my laptop, but not at work, so at work when I want to use BBCode, I have to do a bunch of - ugh! - typing.

exactly!! I've weaned myself off of bookmarks but this has the potential to be the equivalent of freebasing xp

xp to Jesse - yes, I agree with this, using ILX on iPad would be vastly improved as well

Ohn

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Current options 'View previous page' and 'Kill your browser' not good enough for you?

Guess not.

i think a real issue concerns how to drum up a larger and even more prestigious poster base. is anyone interested in canvassing door-to-door, doing presentations at liberal arts colleges, church groups, etc? also probably some strategically-placed billboards featuring huge pictures of a beckoning ned would help

tagline: "ILX - it's better than sex!"

huge pictures of a beckoning ned

Or possibly posed like Uncle Sam "I want YOU for ILX", or Kitchener "ILX needs YOU".

Change board names from "I Love _______" to "Somebody Enjoys _______".

i would like to redouble my request for hide thread as long as these knockout tournaments are going to be a "thing."

hide bookmarks
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I still don't know what the hollow bullet is for, I /swear/ there's no correlation between it and threads I've clicked on having new answers.
--Merdeyeux

Ditto.

its the threads youve clicked on ~recently~ having new answers

feel like were losing the thought leaders over here, i mean wheres geo, wheres micro payments ffs ilx api

i left ilx because of the api situation

i got an email this morning from fo✧✧✧@forumnotificat✧✧✧.c✧✧, titled "What's New in ILx Forum?" the email identified me by screen name. when i clicked through, i went to a different site, which required a password, etc. i stopped at that security-screen.

are email updates something new from ilx (this ilx, i mean)?

sounds suspicious!

it do!

i got that to. it was from the old web bboard ed set up when ilx was down.

sounds suspicious!

Like someone would go to the bother of setting up a fake site so that they could hack into your ILX account and do what exactly?

lol, no i didn't think that's what it was. i just didn't know.

I got one too btw - it *is* kind of weird that this is the first time after all this long.

Like someone would go to the bother of setting up a fake site so that they could hack into your ILX account and do what exactly?

post crepey shit

xp: I think a lot of people went and checked out lefora again last week after this thread:

All 'moderator' links on http://www.ilxor.com/faq.html#using don't work and I need to delete an old post from 2002 with my real name on it

As noted in the thread, lefora are on our jock because we brought them so much site activity during our week or so of downtime, so they probably noticed that people were looking at the forum and are now attempting to woo us back.

I CAUGHT THE LEFORA VIRUS ONCE AND IT TOOK FOREVER UNTIL IT STOP ITCHING KIDS ALWAYS WEAR A CONDOMS

A few ideas I'd like to suggest, which can be implemented as a user's preference.

1. A counter for bookmarked threads so e.g. it reads 'Ideas for ILX has 4 new answers'.
2. The bookmarked threads to be available at both the top and bottom of the page.
3. A page which shows a list of threads you've posted too and the last time you posted.

I'd like to be able to view bookmarks by board.

"SOCK DAY"

For 24 hours, no prior registration is required to post, just like in the good ol' days. Everyone can post using as many sockpuppets as they like and for the duration all are permitted to be completely mean and snarky to each other, engage in ad hominems all day long... anything meta is allowed...

at the end of the 24 hour period, posting becomes limited once again to registered accounts, and the mods delete all of the objectionable posts that have been made during the previous day. (can mods only delete one post at a time? if so, they can make a party of it to combat the tedium. invite some friends over, throw some good-time music on the victrola, and serve up some hot buttered popcorn and crispy fish nuggets)

onimo YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

del NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

it would be convenient if we had the option to view threads in a page-by-page format — say 100 posts to a page. some threads are just so big and overstuffed that they either crash my browser or take forever to load, and the current setup (where the choice is to load either the entire thread or the first 50 and last 50 posts) is far from ideal.

Can TMI be 'logged-on only' but at the same token be 'unidentifiable' on-the-page?

i raised pagination when nu-ILX started but keith/stet had objections that i now forget

did you want pagination to be the default? I'm thinking it would makes the most sense as an option in the preferences menu. it's their call, obviously.