Ideas for ILX

It'd be nice to be able to see a screenshot of each stylesheet, imo, instead of having to apply each one and reload ILX in turn.

I like it a lot...except for the "Add a Post". Something less putty colored maybe?

.formsection { background-color: #BED5C5; }
?

This place just gets smoother and smoother every go-round. Thanks Keith.

My only long-running ILX dream is being able to offer multiple votes in radio button polls, not necessarily any kind of "ranked" deal but just where you could OP3 (or 5 or whatever) instead of OP1. (This would probably also necessitate the poll results also reporting how many voters were involved.) But I just saw that you've said upthread that that'd be complex to implement - so maybe n/m! Things are generally pretty great around here though.

it doesn't go to the bottom of the page after i make a post, is this happening for anyone esle? not talking about the new stylesheet btw

this is v nice keith

can i ask why you have a max-height/width for imgs?

Cheers, caek. Sure, it's for a couple of reasons: for aesthetic reasons, the images shouldn't extend beyond the right hand side of the text area (you made me notice I got the numbers wrong here), just as it would be in a book/magazine/paper etc. but also back in the day when some kids would chuck their toys out the pram and when there were arguments they didn't like, or people they didn't like, would post lots of and/or huge images all over a thread, so there are a couple of things in place to prevent that kind of thing.

hmm. tbh i don't agree with the aesthetic reasons (don't see why headings, bookmarks etc. can be wider than text, but images can't. in fact i think there's an argument for the reverse: long lines of are hard to read, and headings and bookmarks are text, but images aren't) and i'm not sure image bombing is the problem it used to be.

it's not the end of the world, but right-clicking "load image in new tab" on every post on boards like i love photography is a bit of a pain.

i totally approve of max-width for the text of posts btw, but if the reason is for readability rather than aesthetic then it should be an absolute measure in ems, not a % of the viewport imo. http://www.webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Horizontal_Motion/2.1.2/

Yes that's the bit I changed that you made me think about.

suggestion: remove the max-width for the signature line. readability is not really an issue and the max-width makes of the bookmark link is kind of unpredicatable because some people have long nicks. minor irritant if you habitually bookmark the end of every thread you follow.

Yes I was considering just that. I'll try it later and see how it looks.

I tried this. Unfortunately it looks pretty bad - really ragged, so I've left it as it is.

for me, given this is text you click, not just text you look at, it being ragged is less of a concern than the bookmark link being in a predictable location

can i send you a swiss-caek.css which gets rid of max-width for the images and signature lines?

a little idea: it would be cool when searching for a thread to be able to sort the results by number of posts in the thread. so for example, i was just looking for a bob dylan thread to post on, there are a million dylan threads, i'd like to know which one is the one that people have used the most so i can continue that thread instead of reviving some random dylan thread with 10 posts.

^this is a good idea, and along similar lines an "Order Results By Most Recently Updated" option in Search

can there be a way to get a quick text list of all the display names one has used with a particular login?

lol

i once wanted to do a poll of historic board descriptions once is that info still anywhere

can there be a way to erase all display names?

more 2pac threads

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haha that's more "Ideas for Zing"

Clutches feebly at monitor

yeah I do that all the time out of habit

checkbox to post as anonymous person. username can be revealed when post is flagged > x times.

maybe we should petition Keith to add a button per post you can click which, when enough people have clicked it, turns said post bright flashing red

― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:35 PM (53 minutes ago)

I like this idea.

Site-wide mandatory killfile.

beta HideThreads script here, using a bunch of code from ledge's thing upthread and the kilzor script:

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/ilx/HideThreads.user.js

there's a new link at bottom of threads to hide / unhide.

threads are removed from lists ie SiteNewAnswers, NewAnswers, SiteNewQuestions only.

will still be visible in Search Results and Blog View (blog view is wildly different from the above. so whilst it's easy enough to find a blocked thread in blog view, it's hard to tell where it ends as it's just a mixed list of h3, span, p and br, there needs to be a div or something around each thread, a single thing to hide.)

hiding a thread won't remove it from bookmarks. Removing it from bookmarks will remove it from bookmarks.

― koogs, Friday, October 19, 2012 1:12 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks again for this, koogs.

let's have monthly threads for premier league footer instead of just one, what do u reckon guys

I don't even know what thread that is. Continue to enjoy your discussion children's sports without worrying too much about me.

http://i.imgur.com/qvp1c6J.gif

Idea: for each result that shows up in a thread search, display total # of posts + time stamp for last post

stet are you going to be passing the hat again soon?

Yes, this week or next.

please create a Jimmy Wales-esque banner requesting contributions tia

not to get all kafkaesqueesque here, but has anyone noticed that it's hard to search for a thread if part or all of its title title is in quotes? I did a search for Songs where you can 'hear the join' the other day, (my search term was "hear the join", but I also resorted to the boolean < hear AND join > without quotes) and the ilx search kept coming up empty. finally I tried google and it came up right away. the only way to search for that particular thread is to use the unquoted text (songs where you can) as a search term.

It's weird because some thread titles with quoted text come up just fine in the search. every year since 2004 there's been a thread titled "This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- [the year]", but if you do a search for "end of the year in cinema", the 2004 and 2005 threads (but none of the others) show up, in spite of the fact that the thread titles from all the years are formatted identically. weird, huh? I searched for a bunch of thread titles with quotes in them, and it seems like only the older (pre-2006?) threads appear in the search. is this a difficult problem to fix?

I also noticed that when you have images turned off in your preferences, images will still appear in the search results. but that's a whole different issue.

(that should read "only the 2004 and 2005 threads)

i would like to be able to remove bookmarks on my iphone

swipe right-to-left over them in zing

i would like to be able to see my bookmarks list on my iphone so i can revive older threads on the go... is that a feature? i haven't been able to figure it out if it is

That's not in the app, no. No reason it couldn't be someday, though

i would second mordy's request

i don't have zing i just have the regular iphone thing i don't wanna change

actually why is javascript disabled on iPhones?

It's because it predated iPhones.

k3v zing is really the best.

i don't really know where to put this and it's not really an idea for ilx but i switched to keith's newold css thingy and i'm getting quite used to it. actually, i quite like it. it's the first stylesheet that hasn't sent me back running to old.css. i just have one slight quibble: for threads longer than 100 posts, the whole "skipping x messages" is barely different from the rest of the text, so when you're quickly going down the page you miss it. and for words in quotes, the ' is written over the first letter of what's being quoted so you can't really see it.
anyways, cheers keith for newold.css, it's nice !

^agree with that, the compliments as well as the tiny nitpicks

I will never stray from keith.css. I don't see how you can read ILX without the highlighted div's.