Ideas for ILX

I'll sort the rest of the stylesheets in a minute for the updated threads thing.

― Keith, Sunday, August 2, 2009 2:42 PM (28 minutes ago)

Very cool! I loaded old.css long enough to see how it worked, looking forward to seeing it on style3.

ok, so on this stylesheet, it's a black square (big or small) bullet for new messages and a grey (big or small) for no new messages/unread/other.

What browser are you using? They shouldn't be big/small, it's just darker (on mine anyway).

They should be darker when a thread you've read has new answers on it...

Rock - it's done on them all now.

or maybe some kind of "new message on thread since you last visited it" tooltip when hovering over that bullet kinda thing? Not everyone is going to read this thread or immediately guess/see the bullets suddenly mean something.

FFX 3.5.1

Hmm, was working on old.css and now it isn't.

Well, if you can think of something good then yes, but I think some kind of "New Messages" thing would be too intrusive, though I understand it's not immediately obvious what they mean.

Weird, I'm using FFX 3.5.1 too, though on a Mac. Don't get the big/small thing. Perhaps it's the Windows version.

Correction: Blueski-2.css bullets aren't alternating big/small, they're (probably?) totally random:

http://i25.tinypic.com/mskmxd.png

Or are some threads fuller than others, like a fuel gauge? :-)

Ed, it's probably just because I rebooted to fix all the other stylesheets, so the server's forgotten your position on some recent threads.

Yeah, that's weird, Stan I mean the only change to the stylesheet I've made is this:

.updated {
	color: #000;
}

And that style should only be used when the thread's got new messages, so a bit puzzled as to why anything else would have changed.

It may have been like this forever, I only just looked at the bullets since they suddenly mean something. (when they're black, but not when they're big or small)

Right - I mean it feels like a browser rendering thing... No anti-aliasing; that kind of thing. I'll temporarily take the change out and you can let me know if it made a difference... Give me a second.

OK, it should be as was now... Whatever that was.

yup, working again.

Hmmm, style3 still not working, Keith.

The stylesheet is updated... You may need to just shake your browser a bit - they do a good job of caching stylesheets. Try refreshing 'furiously' for a bit.

Nevermind about the Blueski-2.css big/small bullet thing: it's not random, there's a pattern: --.-.--.-.-- (etc) (still confusing though: this doesn't mean anything, but the color does)

Actually, now that you mention it, I've just noticed it on mine too :)

It isn't anything to do with the change; must just be Firefox's rendering. Maybe there's a way to force it, but I doubt it.

Ah! That got it. Quit/restarted Firefox. Thanks!

Let me try circles, Stan - that might be better.

Much better, thanks!

(I was looking at morse code to see if --.-. or .-.-- meant anything, just in case :-) )

Probably is, isn't it. It's all a bit annoying as they're bigger on FFox than they are on Safari, but not a lot I can do, I guess.

My only suggestion is to keep up the good work. I love ILX, because it only changes for the better. None of the "we're changing everything cuz we have to do something with all the designers we hired" that seems to infect other sites. All the gloss is subtle, and in the name of usability. I'm posting from Zing, so I guess my only suggestions would be to polish up Zing, and make Windows/iPhone versions. You guys rock!

Jay, you can kind of do this now, though it's certainly not obvious... If you use the text search, and enter something like:

radiohead AND displayName:"Ned Raggett"

It should work - remember to change to posts (if that's what you're looking for).

― Keith, Sunday, August 2, 2009 10:43 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Excellent, thanks, Keith!

Keith, what classes do I need to add support for to caek.css to make the updated threads list thing work?

print to cafepress button

haha!

hahahaha. i would like a coffee mug that says SUGGEST BAN in the interior once the liquid level gets too low. like, you're not allowed to have too little coffee.

i'm not really sure how this works though, like are you suggest banning the coffee or the mug or?

Maybe the ability to edit a post? I hate reading my own typso.

Typos!

Hey tehresa remember at Sefap you suggeted this idea, a little tab that says

http://www.luxurybath.com/images/partners-microban.jpg

so instead of banning somebody for a few days you just ban them for a few minutes

lol i don't think my idea was that fleshed out; i just saw the label on something and snapped a cell phone pic, and was then pondering what exactly a microban would be.

read before posting

xpost to daniel

i microbanned harbl yesterday!

sometimes you remind me of the duchess from alice in wonderland.

im gonna go back and read this whole thread later, but having more complex poll options, like being able to rank choices 1 thru x, would be great

estela is that a compliment

i would think so!

I do. Still the occasional typo. :(

(xp to Roxy)

of course it is a compliment, you are the shining star of the admin log.

wow ty!!

really digging this bullet thing! thanks, keith!

^^^

also, this is just a small pet peeve of mine, but in the search page, when searching posts by a certain user, could the default be changed to "display name" instead of "email address" as i can't see who would use the email address to search except for mods (?) and lots of times, esp when i'm trying to find a certain post by someone in a rush, i always have to end up clicking back to search because i forgot to change the default

^^ Yeah, cosign that.

OH I HAVE ANOTHER ONE

okay so, could it be possible to order the list of boards on the "boards" page so that i can put the ones that i always read up at the top and the ones that i don't down at the bottom? or like, where it says "ILM Answers" and "ILE Answers" to be able to customize which boards have those links at the top?

you can do the latter in preferences!