Ideas for ILX

could "show images" be on-page rather than or, in addition to, being in preferences? i shift between the two very regularly either image or youtube-heavy threads. maybe others do, too?

I like this idea. I've wished for something like this when I accidentally clicked the rip nsfws thread at work.

that would be very useful

imo that would solve the "load back 100 pages" problem, as well: there's virtually no wait time on even the longest threads with images off (especially on the new server)

no but you still have to track down where the 50th most recent message is and work backwards from there

I still want a spoiler tag!

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it would be very cool if there were a box, somewhere near the "submit post" button, that i could check that said something to the effect of "update bookmark" or something - the issue is that there are times where for whatever reason i haven't read all the most recent posts in a fast-moving thread, but i want to make a quick comment or respond to a particularly recent post - it is currently impossible to do this without losing my bookmark some x posts upthread, since posting in a thread which i've bookmarked automatically moves the bookmark to my post. i want there to be a way to make a post without losing my place, so i think there should be a box (and 'checked' should be the default) that gives me the option to keep my bookmark in its place and still post a message

There's a workaround for that, no? I.e. load your bookmarked thread, open the bookmarked post's permalink in a new window/tab, make yer post, then go to new window/tab and re-bookmark.

I SUPPOSE

Personally, I don't think people should be able to post if they've not read the whole thread over. That just leads to same things being repeated again and again.

i agree with the t-man

i think there should be a "like" feature attached to posts, but the results of its use would not be viewable anywhere. instead, at the end of every year, a collection would be taken up for the person who had received the most likes (without revealing their name), and the money so gathered would be used to buy and send them a shitload of candy.

I think a like feature would be great. But not hidden. And it could be OTM instead of like.

However I could see an outcry because of the fackbookication of ilx. Damn you naysayers.

what about a function whereby users can 'flag' a post that they enjoy

I'd like to see an option to hide the 'Flag Post' link. I've clicked on it several times by accident, especially when surfing on my mobile. If nothing else if I were to flag a post, which I haven't done so far, then it would give me a bit of breathing space before doing so.

just want to say that i don't think people should be able to post until they've read an entire thread - this would help avoid repetition

i agree with the n-man

bring back sb, fp isn't really working

this ideas are all terrible

think it would be a really good Idea if we changed the default font to Comic Sans

And made its colour white.

I really think there should be some functionality that prevents people from posting until they've read an entire thread. Perhaps aided by the combination of some sort of camera that scans eye movements and an end-of-thread quiz which, upon its successful completion, will provide posters with the Captcha code which will allow them to post to the thread.

But I mostly want to stress that people should be reading entire threads before posting in order to cut down on repetition.

you know how things are funny when repeated a few times, and then dreadfully unfunny for a long while before ultimately reaching a sublime state beyond such concerns? (eg markers and 'i miss you')

there should be a way to hide the middle part

But I think if you look somewhere around post #1000 this has been discussed at length already

― frogbs, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:24 AM (3 minutes ago)

hmmm...actually numbering posts could be really handy! The easiest-to-follow comment sections out there are the ones with numbered comments. I don't know what it would do to the nature of the ongoing ILX cocktail party if threads had a bunch of "@23" or "re: 497" stuff, though.

A link to a quoted post could be nice. It could tie in with my idea of links (buttons?) for quoting and formatting like we have on Zing. My right pinky sucks at typing brackets and stupid Chrome doesn't have a BBCode extension.

on firefox, maybe others, you can just drag the "Permalink" link to the "Add A Post" box

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also, duh

man that is my tip of the week, that Ideas for ILX

Every time I click on Ideas for ILX or Ideas for ILX, I get nothing.

this thread ending up as a moebius strip is kind of too obvious self parody

Not sure if this idea has been posted yet, but on the search results screen, it would be cool if it also listed the total number of answers for each thread. it could come in handy when a specific topic (e.g., james brown) has many threads and you're wondering which one is the "main" thread.

I like that.

Yes, that'd be cool.

Great idea.

I find it helpful to open a bunch of them and look at the tone and content of the discussion in those instances

I hate to be negative, but I would like an ability to hide specific threads. I don't know if it's feasible at all, just throwing the idea out there.

i would really like that as well

what if poll closing dates didnt turn red until x hours/days before

could "show images" be on-page rather than or, in addition to, being in preferences? i shift between the two very regularly either image or youtube-heavy threads. maybe others do, too?

flopson suggested this some time back and I still think this would be massively handy, if it is at all easily done.

ZING ZING ZING

we need badge notifications

and we need search function for zing

Yeah zing not having search, or the random function, is slightly frustrating for me. I use random when I'm bored but thats usually when i'm in bed and thus, using my iphone :( I know stet explained something on the zingthread as to why its not there but I forget now.

I thought of one this morning: if the default search results ordering option was "newest first" rather than "most relevant first". I dunno, I guess there could be some argument for the way it is, but that's not how I use search.

being able to hide threads from boards we don't care about (like, I really don't give a hoot about cricket, NFL, baseball etc) would be awesome.

You want this:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/CustomiseSiteNewPostsControllerServlet

ah i didn't know about that, but strangely I must have seen it before because all the sports threads are unticked and still I'm sure I get a lot of them appearing in my feed. Maybe not?

I get sports threads appearing in my feed on Mobile Device Interface sometimes, but not when I'm ilxing on a computer.

zing you cant customise SNA on i think is why.