Ideas for ILX

when I read a spoiler I just tell myself "all that will be has become"

'the circle of life is now complete, jah rastafari'

How is having a spoiler tag any worse than when someone goes SPOILER
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Here's the thing, dude was fucking his mother.

Also a good way to hide images. "Here's ten pictures from the World ILX Meeting you missed. Click on the spoiler tag to see each one."

OK, instead of a single "Skipping x messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all" link, maybe we can paginate them? For example, if x = 100, then we could jump to page 1 or page 2 (assuming each "page" contains 50 messages).

each page should contain at least 5000 messages tho

So hiding threads is a no go? Just curious.

would pay 20 bucks for zing iPad

What's wrong with the web site?

Be more specific?

Sorry, was reply to the late great. When I first got iPad I kept on thinking "where is app for [website x with iPhone app]?" before realising I could just use the website.

needs retina support

nah j/k

i just thought it would be cool to be able to swipe back and forth and around the way facebook works on ipad or whatever

i find web clumsy because if i miss my click-point i get an automatic zoom in on, i dunno, someone's funny emoji or a date/time stamp or formatting help

i could imagine an iPad zing in the style of the twitter app

or facebook,sort of, w/ boards at left instead of users?

Ability to use search function to search within a thread, as opposed to just single thread title or post. For example, a Within Threads search for

pizza AND tacos

would bring up threads in which one post reads "pizza" and a separate post reads "tacos".

multitouch gestures (for suggest ban, etc)

multitouch gestures (for suggest ban, etc)

webcamera that recognises when you are enraged, flicking the vs, etc, and flags posts accordingly

facetime for 1p3

ILX needs a new style of dock connector

ILX should use the new YouTube embed style so I don't have to install flash

Just bumping to garner restate my support and to solicit ideas and feedback on a "Hide Thread" feature.

Could we get a button where if we push it we simply cease to exist?

lol. I was going to post "If you could push a button and a thread would simply cease to exist, would you press it?" as the revive, but I reined in my impulse.

Just bumping to garner restate my support and to solicit ideas and feedback on a "Hide Thread" feature.

― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Friday, October 12, 2012 11:33 AM (4 minutes ago)

PLEEEASE. I've been begging for this for, let's see, 26 months now.

What I'm asking here is, Stet, what would we have to do to make this happen? I would happily double my annual contribution to the server funding drive.

i'm not sure giving more money for the server would generate free time for someone to add a "Hide Thread" feature

would be possible with a greasemonkey script (cf user killfile) EXCEPT for the method of specifying the threads you don't want to see, which would be trouble.

i envisage the same thing would be trouble if done on server (although similar to bookmarks)

the bigger question is "what does a Hide Thread feature look like?"

- how is the functionality invoked?
- how do you unhide a thread?
- is there a limit on the number of threads you can hide?
- is this functionality invokable on a batch of threads or only one at a time?
- what happens if you hide a thread you have previously bookmarked?
- are hidden threads removed from search results for threads/posts?
- are hidden threads removed from blog view?
- can a user follow a link in another thread to a hidden thread, or should the hidden thread always appear as if it has been deleted?
- are hidden threads filtered out of all locations (New Questions, Site New Answers, board answers) or are they left in some locations?
- if you post to a thread, then hide it, should that post appear when clicking "My Recent Posts"?

etc etc etc

site new answers and boards have the threads as <li> and a greasemonkey script would typically search through all these and hide the <li> which have a link in them to a hidden thread.

i'd put a link next to these list items that'd hide the thread in question. unhiding it would be more difficult.

search results are different, bookmarks are different, recent posts are different. but, i'd argue, all those are places you'd want to see 'hidden threads' - you've potentially gone looking for them. (and could help with the unhiding)

blog view isn't and would have to be a special case.

can we get a button to suggest that a poster be banned

- how is the functionality invoked? 'Hide this Thread' link similar to (and perhaps in the same place as) 'Remove Bookmark from this Thread'
- how do you unhide a thread? go to 'Hidden threads' link in menu bar (between 'Bookmarks' and 'My Recent Posts')
- is there a limit on the number of threads you can hide? same as bookmarks, i.e. I assume no
- is this functionality invokable on a batch of threads or only one at a time? one at a time
- what happens if you hide a thread you have previously bookmarked? user must remove bookmark in order for 'Hide this Thread' to appear in the thread
- are hidden threads removed from search results for threads/posts? no
- are hidden threads removed from blog view? yes
- can a user follow a link in another thread to a hidden thread, or should the hidden thread always appear as if it has been deleted? the former
- are hidden threads filtered out of all locations (New Questions, Site New Answers, board answers) or are they left in some locations? filtered out of those locations but appear in search results
- if you post to a thread, then hide it, should that post appear when clicking "My Recent Posts"? yes

v0.10

wait

- how is the functionality invoked? 'Hide this Thread' link similar to (and perhaps in the same place as) 'Remove Bookmark from this Thread'
http://www.csromania.com/images/updated.gif - how do you unhide a thread? go to 'Hidden threads' link in menu bar (between 'Bookmarks' and 'My Recent Posts'), check threads to be unhidden, click 'Unhide Selected Threads' (exactly as removing bookmarks works now)
- is there a limit on the number of threads you can hide? same as bookmarks, i.e. I assume no
- is this functionality invokable on a batch of threads or only one at a time? one at a time
- what happens if you hide a thread you have previously bookmarked? user must remove bookmark in order for 'Hide this Thread' to appear in the thread
- are hidden threads removed from search results for threads/posts? no
- are hidden threads removed from blog view? yes
- can a user follow a link in another thread to a hidden thread, or should the hidden thread always appear as if it has been deleted? the former
- are hidden threads filtered out of all locations (New Questions, Site New Answers, board answers) or are they left in some locations? filtered out of those locations but appear in search results
- if you post to a thread, then hide it, should that post appear when clicking "My Recent Posts"? yes

v0.11

if i can suggest a revision:

- how is the functionality invoked? 'Hide this Thread' link similar to (and perhaps in the same place as) 'Remove Bookmark from this Thread'
- how do you unhide a thread? go to 'Hidden threads' link in menu bar (between 'Bookmarks' and 'My Recent Posts'), check threads to be unhidden, click 'Unhide Selected Threads' (exactly as removing bookmarks works now)
- is there a limit on the number of threads you can hide? same as bookmarks, i.e. I assume no
- is this functionality invokable on a batch of threads or only one at a time? one at a time
http://www.csromania.com/images/updated.gif - what happens if you hide a thread you have previously bookmarked? thread is removed from list of bookmarked threads for the user and hidden simultaenously (the previous option would result in some confusion when people get disgusted with a thread they had previously bookmarked and can't quickly locate the "Hide this Thread" link)
- are hidden threads removed from search results for threads/posts? no
- are hidden threads removed from blog view? yes
- can a user follow a link in another thread to a hidden thread, or should the hidden thread always appear as if it has been deleted? the former
- are hidden threads filtered out of all locations (New Questions, Site New Answers, board answers) or are they left in some locations? filtered out of those locations but appear in search results
- if you post to a thread, then hide it, should that post appear when clicking "My Recent Posts"? yes

v0.12

I resisted that because then you've got 'Remove Bookmark from this Thread' *and* 'Hide this Thread' on the same screen, and it started to feel a bit cluttered at that point. one way to get around that might be to stick the 'Hide this Thread' link somewhere else on the page

In lieu of a "preview" function, it'd be great if at least the font that posts appear in when being composed was changed to whichever one posted posts actually end up appearing in. The font that the "new world" stylesheet uses, for one, is leagues more readable than the way the words appear in the little box when trying to bang out a post

i) hide bookmarks (can some kind someone not whack a quick gmonkey script together for this)

ii) "view previous page" on long threads

these are the only two proper issues, gtfo with "hide thread" and similar prissynesses

soundcloud / vimeo etc embeds might be nice too but no biggie

there is already a 'view previous page'

Why would you want to hide a bookmark, RTC? Wouldn't you just remove it?

not a bookmark, all of them

idk i don't use the feature religiously and oh it's ever such a chore seeing them at the top of every page

there is already a 'view previous page'

― just1n3, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 17:15 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol oh yeah wait i knew that... ok there was some other minor irritation in this vein but i forget now, nm

Not using bookmarks = disgusting savagery I'm afraid. I am very disappointed in you.

easy to hide bookmarks in greasemonkey:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Hide ilx bookmarks
// @namespace   http://localhost
// @description Hide ilx bookmarks from new answers pages
// @include     http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet*
// @include     http://ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet*
// @include     http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/SiteNewAnswersControllerServlet
// @include     http://ilxor.com/ILX/SiteNewAnswersControllerServlet
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==
document.getElementsByClassName("bookmarks")[0].style.display="none";

stylish would be a better tool, for that, i think. less of a sledgehammer if all you're going to do is change one style attribute of one element.

but i think the idea was to add a button that collapsed them until uncollapsed. would mean inserting said button and the code that that button executed. and remembering the state.

The Bookmarks page has a "Delete all Bookmarks" link, fyi.

it wasn't about deleting them though, was about not having them at the top there, all the time, taking up space.

did try a stylesheet which had them all in a div floating right. didn't get far with it though.

There is a divide on ilx between people who use bookmarks to mark specific messages within a thread and people who use bookmarks to alert them when threads they've already completely read have resurfaced.

and people who never use bookmarks for anything