Ideas for ILX

Yeah, I'm not a fan of SB in general, but it seems like it would do more good if a person saw that they were getting close to the mark.

some sort of something to fix the webmailing reply issue

Could there be a count of the number of users online displayed at the top somewhere? Just a simple count of logged-in users (but not names, cos that would be crepey). Wouldn't be at all useful, just mildly interesting.

Yeah that's a nice idea, maybe wouldn't be too difficult to do either.

Stan - I've never been convinced by people's anti-SB argument around the "for the lols" thing, because no-one can see it. This is why I didn't make it available, so that it couldn't be used in this way. That said, I've been considering maybe warning people when they get to 40 or something. This would only affect a few people. Also - I wouldn't worry about your own position re: SBs.

S1ocki, I don't know what the issue is. I was asked recently to remove 'reply to' from webmail, because people were being hassled off board.

Ok, thanks, that makes sense (why SBs aren't public). xpost

S1ocki, I don't know what the issue is. I was asked recently to remove 'reply to' from webmail, because people were being hassled off board.

― Keith, Saturday, August 1, 2009 5:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there was ever a "reply to"?

every webmail i've gotten has been unreplyable. which is ok, but maybe there shoudl be some sort of reminder to put your own email address in the message? or even an optional field for your email addy?

More poll forms would be fun. One that allowed you to rank the options from first to last, say, or just allowed you to tick multiple boxes, livejournal style.

Would like this!

Also, if you decide to _not_ bring back lists of ILX-wide stats, I would still be interested in personal stats on on each person's profile page re: how many posts they've made, how many threads they've started, etc. Or at least a way for each user to see their own info.

Oh, and that secret cool feature Ned Raggett has that notifies him as soon as someone mentions his name anywhere on ILX causing him to show up.

*holds breath & refreshes like mad*

but maybe there shoudl be some sort of reminder to put your own email address in the message? or even an optional field for your email addy?

Sure...

Musically, I do actually have these numbers, but what you're specifically asking for is one of the reasons I got rid of the stats thing! Tom Ewing wrote an article about this... Having # posts against each user automatically gives certain people status in the community, and this isn't necessarily a good thing (loads of posts doesn't mean loads of quality posts), so what I was thinking of was some more point in time stats, like # posts in the last week or month or something, which would be a bit more interesting anyway, as it changes more frequently.

Re: your own info, then yes sure - no reason not to show it there.

Oh and for now, you've made 3,839 posts.

omg i want to know mine!

... and 35 good ones! ;-) (xpost)

Surm, 1,209

OK, olive should be olive, webmail has a note on it warning you to stick your email address in it and there's XML for bookmarks that have new answers.

Stet: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/BookmarksControllerServlet?xml=true

(not choosing these out of favouritism, they were just some of the easier things for now)

Ho, top, cheers! Pints are yours.

Man, I loved the stats page.

Well, if you want stats for now, which ones and I'll just run them and post them...

Saturday night and no f***er is up for a drink, so at a loose end!

love where we're at now (with the exception of SB, which was an interesting idea and i'm sure not trivial to implement, but it's changed things for the worse imo). i'm generally opposed to new features that change the way ilx works as a magical community of social retards rather than just improve the UI (like remove bookmark links at the end of bookmarked threads) or are just cosmetic (like CSS changes).

preview would be great.

"magical community of social retards"

all my thoughts already mentioned

"continue keeping it simple and plain"

^this above all :)

It sounds better and more true than "a social community of magical retards" (xpost)

Re: the simple and plain thing, I've certainly no plans to change that. I do think the thing is very economical and helps you get straight to the actual important info - what people are posting. I find these PHPBB things really horrible with a really low signal to noise ratio, in that about 20cm on the screen can be taken up by someone saying 'lol' or the like.

lol

i agree, that is terrible

I am super pro-expanding poll options. I think they've grown to play a decently big role here, and you can do lots of pretty interesting things w/ statistics and rankings and stuff.

I agree, it's just one of the harder things to do...

But will spend some time thinking it through.

maybe we can have a function for the race demographics off poll participants

What about a poll option that automatically SBs anybody who starts more than one poll in a week?

Or a function that blows up your computer if you start a poll on something that was done 2 months ago?

Or maybe shoots nerve gas out of your keyboard if you start a poll about Animal Collective?

yeah maybe some polls with two axes so then you can make a histogram based on the respondent's age/sex/whatever

yeah anything that blows up your computer is cool

I'd like a function that prevented people getting uptight about the fact that other people may have discussed the same subject in the past. xx-post

hey thanks in advance Keith for anything you decide to do

how many posts have i made?

Would like to have a simple link to threads I'm on, please!

Granny, thanks.

Pfunkboy: 15,732

Meg, don't quite understand that... Can't you get it from your browser's address bar? Maybe that's not what you mean.

thanks, keith!

what about an unsuggest ban option? I think I have sb'd one or two people on accident.

I hope StanM didn't die by holding his breath for half an hour.

no like automatically bookmarking threads you posted on? except you can just click bookmark xp

only another 545987098767676 posts to catch up with Ned mind you

No, I mean if I want to see which threads I've contributed to recently/ever. Without having to click bookmark every time.

Hooray! xxxpost :-)

Oh OK, Meg... Hang on a tick...

i stopped using a browser on my phone once they instituted like the 4 hour time delay, how are you even able to keep up with this convo?

oh wait nvm, it's because i didn't log in when i would read on my phone, lol. anyway, i read (and post) from zing in my phone now -- backward technological steps etc etc

xps You should be able to see images on ilx when using your phone. Try a browser other than Safari and see if that changes anything.

> given there's code to embed the video

this may be a fallacy. the existing code probably just sees the youtube url and wraps it in something that turns it into an embed, without needing to visit youtube. your device then does the download of the preview image when you view the thread.

yeah, this with images on

<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbGjLFpsuKU; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>

just the url with images off.

oh, that was a youtube url in a code segment and wasn't supposed to expand

When someone is posting a youtube embed interrupt them with a message -- like when cross-posting -- asking if they have added a title or text explaining what the video is.

― Kim Kimberly, Friday, August 15, 2025 10:50 AM (four days ago)

this x1000 -- posting something without telling people what it is or expecting them to infer why it is being posted is irritating behavior imo. are a few words going to kill you?

^^^ this also for Bluesky links.