Ideas for ILX

thanks!

"Post at peril" still the leading post strategy, and I'm fine with that tbh.

A crappy search function is what sets ilx apart, makes it unique imo.

ilx's backwardness is one of its lovable quirks

all obstacles to reviving discussion of the grateful dead are features not bugs

"jump to most recent revive" at the top of the thread

i.e. to most recent "x years/months pass..."

i like the hunt

totally an unnecessary luxury but it'd be neat to have "drafts" for new threads. i just wrote up a new thread but i need to think about it some more.

willing to debug/test stuff too if you're in need

Ban polls and close ilm

ban dmac and close ilx

deems to be the final inhabitant and custodian of a deserted ilx, dutifully bumping old threads as he drifts through space awaiting heat death

Let's not get hasty now chaps

maybe it would be nice to be able to hide threads?

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maybe it would be nice to be able to hide threads?

this would be dope

I had written a GreaseMonkey script that hides thread. It was on another computer, but maybe I can do it again.

What thread would you hide?

there's at least one fairly obvious contender floating near the top of ILE since it was started this morning

Really? I haven't checked "New Questions" latel – OH GOOD FUCKING GRIEF.

- the ability to sort search results by date

you can sort the search results by newest first or oldest first,

Brilliant thank you KM!

So I re-made that script for hiding threads. Here it is for anyone who wants it. Obviously you need Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension for it to work. It's pretty rough but it does the job as far as I'm concerned.

Killfile hasn't worked for me in awhile. On Chrome.

"Flag Post" link should say "Force Push" on days of star wars movie premieres

Disable thread creation

I "Force Pushed" you for that, Sufjan.

mod, checking number of Force Pushes please and thanks.

Bookmark a User

^^ that is creepy imo

Why? Standard social media practice

Search function already allows a similar level of creepiness without automation.

When you search for threads, in the search results maybe the number of posts in a thread could be shown. Not sure if it's worth the effort but I'm just thinking of it being helpful if you're trying to find the most popular threads on topics w/a lot of different threads.

yes, has been mentioned before, would indeed be helpful

a way to sort search results by the number of posts in each thread. i'm trying to bump the most frequently used grateful dead thread to talk about the new doc, but there's a million threads and in those cases it would be super useful to be able to just pick the one that has the most posts

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, August 29, 2017 8:40 PM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Search function already allows a similar level of creepiness without automation.

― El Tomboto, Thursday, December 28, 2017 9:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

Also it requires an extra step -- you have to consciously say "ok, I am searching for all of this person's posts" and live with yourself as you sift through that person's scattered posted thoughts looking for whatever it is that you're looking for.

the fact that this is how it's done elsewhere is not persuasive at all for me. one reason i like ilx is because the focus is on the topic of conversation (the thread) instead of the cult of personality that develops (and is developed) by a "follow this person" approach

agree, ILX was a lot more boring for me when it was a place for buddy time ("jackoff sesh" era) or when people are working through their grudges together (same thing as buddy time imo, in a very male way). many of those posters are gone or post infrequently now and it's considerably less boring here (this is another reason why I find twitter inscrutable as something I'd want to do---it seems entirely people focused and ugh at those people, shameless self-promoters and self-absorbed nincompoops)

Well I just thought it would be a way to see what posters I’m a fan of have been up to. I guess I’ll have to learn how to “live with myself” and not feel “creepy” for wanting to read what they have to say.

yeah one of the brilliant things abt ilx design is having the poster at the bottom of the post. you can often tell who it is and you will gradually build up a sense of ppl's voices and opinions, so it's not like pretending we're in some 90s internet fantasy where identity doesn't matter, but you interact as much with the post as the poster and the interface isn't set up to make the poster into more than that - no avatars or post counts or ranks or easy click-throughs to this person's whole history...idk it could survive some additional features in this department but the current mix is really nice imo.

Otm

Speaking of, it is still infuriating that on zing, the posters name is on the top. Why can’t these match?

That’s a good point. Zing should do that too

Lol duh read the thread self

XP euler considerably more boring now fyi

nah I've always been boring

Ha no i meant xp to u

Ilx more boring now.

But i mean if it's creepy it's creepy no arguing with that

Well I just thought it would be a way to see what posters I’m a fan of have been up to. I guess I’ll have to learn how to “live with myself” and not feel “creepy” for wanting to read what they have to say.

I guess so! If you were that interested, you could probably follow them on the social media platform of your choice.

ilx is just match.com for pseudointellectuals to find each other off board where the interesting conversations are happening

if I wanted interesting off board conversations I'd go to work

but I keep ILE off SNA, I'm really only here for ILM & ILG plus a few ILE bookmarks

Bookmark a user is a cool idea but it would probably lead to people with grudges chasing their nemeses across the boards in order to argue with them.