Ideas for ILX

No pics please. It’s more fun watching people fuck up embeds

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:21 PM (yesterday)

agreed

Y’all have a weird definition of “fun.”

are you only just noticing this

ILX is "fun" in the way that watching other people lose at 3 card monte is fun.

we are all the shill

whatta maroon

Thumbs down, i don’t want ilx to become more 4chan-like

i get so freaked out every time "avatars" get bandied about

otm, plz no

I would enjoy 16x16 pixel avatars

maybe that's for a different forum than this one

emojis

it's the "photos on your phone" case I'm mostly thinking about tbh.

― stet, Thursday, June 18, 2020 9:25 AM

So could I start a thread called Content PP on the HTML board, and curate it as my personal imageshackesque account?

emojis

https://i.imgur.com/Ql7iJJX.jpg

i need $5 for the final push

Leave ILX as is. If you are truly craving avatars, emoji, and picture hosting galore, drop by and say hi on poxyfule.slack.com

moodles otm

slack has the most cats

i need $5 for the final push

― Karl Malone, Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:27 PM bookmarkflaglink

every time I see a Biden email taht sends this, I wonder if the $5 is for Metamucil

I don't want to fall short

an 'all one thread' view

How would that differ from SNA?

Because SNA is a list of threads not a single thread

Sort of like Blog View?

Yes but no

I do appreciate this could belong on your terrible ideas as replying is problematic to manage but it's inspired by

time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone) wrote this on thread outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc) on board I Love Everything on 25-Jun-2020

oops, forgot which thread this was! sorry. it's all one thread, etc

Karl Malone wrote this on thread 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread, pt 3: life is very long on board I Love Everything on 13-Mar-2020

oops my bad too.

it's all one thread, basically

we could completely remove the need for attempting to post in the correct one out of the 142 active US Pol/'rona/streaming threads

you mean, the true giant singular thread, omino?

i would love to see that, as an experiment. many have said it wasn't even possible

xp!

can't claim credit for the "all of ilx is one thread" idea, although i do believe in it

someone mentioned it earlier that day and i was just riffing off of it (sorry i can't remember details)

Yes, just need to work out how to manage replies. Maybe set it so anyone posting to the Singularity would only have their reply only visible there

ooh, that's an interesting idea. do i have this right: you can only see the mini conversation tree if you actually reply to the post in question? and once you do, it opens up the rest of the replies to that post (as part of the infinite thread)?

if that were the case, you wouldn't be able to read the responses to ideas before throwing your own in there, which would be very different from ilx and very interesting, too. though, i guess you could just reply "-" and then see the responses.

oh wait, haha sorry omino. now i'm realizing what you meant (it was very clear, i'm just amped up on coffee). i like the idea of singularity-thread only posts too, heh

b-but 77

Maybe a board level single thread would be better because I dont think a million Beatles posts mixed with a million Trump posts would be good for anyone.

embrace the soup

Don't anyone dare to mess with I Love Books! or I'll... I'll... do something rash!

like write one?

you could make it a user preference or menu link so everyone can retain their normal multi thread ILB but you have the option for soupview

Aimless already wrote a book and it is in my pile of ilxor books to read

Re a single thread, I think a better idea for ilx would be for Americans to exercise a tiny bit of self-control when it comes to starting a new thread about the current neverending election that is identical to the 243 extant threads on same

you think that would be easier than reprogramming an entire message board?

The purpose of new threads is to avoid unloadably long threads

but the purpose of cars is to avoid long walks, and yet we all sit still within them together on the way to work all the same

btw, this is closely related to the thread about how the mods did 9/11 (obviously true, it's more about why they did it)

#onethread

#onethread
#except77

We used to have One Thread, it was called Site New Posts and only mods could see it. It was technically problematic - it’s hard to do the security thing and make sure only 77 members see 77 posts on there. I loved it though, it’s a great idea.

Pretty sure not reading the thread before you post would not be an innovation for a significant number of ilxors

I was thinking, there should just be one long thread

ILX should have a virtual Tip Jar, because tipping should be encouraged whenever a service is rendered. Then each registered user could have a running total of how much they've tipped ILX, just like each of us has a total of how many posts we've made.

(Aimless stands back, hooks his thumbs in his braces and admires his suggestion for several minutes before clicking Submit Post.)

Not a bad thought but let's take it to its logical conclusion and bill people for bad posts

or kill people who have goats