Ideas for ILX

So you can pick your own colors for links on the new answers page (which remains future news to me, I don't see any such option), AND you can pick your own stylesheet, which conflicts with the colors the users may have picked... goddamn, man. You're going to give yourself a brain hemorrhage over this. Just DO NOT DO one of those things. Why would you need to do both?

It's been that way for about two years! Click on the site new answers heading.

colour picker is linked from prefs page.

it's 'cause of users picking their own colours for site new answers, ain't it? that kind of overrides and sits outside any stylesheet coding.

Well, even if you don't pick your own colors for Site New Answers, you're still stuck with the default color (black). Basically, as it stands, you can't use SNA without overriding stylesheet colors for thread titles.

Yes you can. The problem arises when you start hiding sub-boards, or at least this is the way old.css behaves; I can't speak for the other stylesheets.

> how would you convert to hsb tho?

java's Color class has a method. (the actual maths is a fiddle, usually a case statement which splits it up into 60 degree segments and treats them differently. http://actionsnippet.com/?p=797 )

Yes you can. The problem arises when you start hiding sub-boards, or at least this is the way old.css behaves; I can't speak for the other stylesheets.

Maybe I don't understand what you're talking about. I just changed my stylesheet to "old.css," I selected show "all" boards in the Site New Answers settings, and I set the color for all of the boards to be the default, black. Site New Answers still shows thread titles as black, rather than the blue/purple of old.css.

Does it do this if you click the "Restore Defaults" button as opposed to manually setting the values?

A-ha! No, it doesn't. I forgot about "Restore Defaults." Yeah, that works fine then, even with blueski.css. So the problem only develops if you set preferences for Site New Answers.

Correct.

(which is why I never changed the preferences for SNA)

I just figured there were some boards that I wouldn't want to be shown, since I never read them, but I'm looking at the default SNA page right now, and it appears no one else reads them either lol.

How come the boards on the "Boards" page and the "I Want to Change the Boards Shown on Site New Answers..." in a different order? Not important at all, just noticed.

"I Want ... " is ordered alphabetically. The boards page has ILM and ILE at the top, then it's broadly alphabetical except for some new ones, TMI is up and the top and People/Vinyl/Photography are at the bottom. I think it could be tweaked.

Yes, it's because I have some functionality that allows you to define the order of boards and create folder and put things in on the front page, that's basically never been used.

I've just moved the newer boards into alphabetical order. The other one is just in alphabetical order as it's sorted before being displayed.

Jay, I tried to do the link visited thing for colours - I had hoped to set a visited link to a darker colour, based on whatever colour you had selected for that thread, but it seems as though it's impossible to set the 'visited' status of a link, on a link-by-link basis, which makes this very tricky.

Nonetheless, I have added a 'not set' option in the colours, which all will be set to if you 'restore defaults', when I next upload the software (I'll do that shortly).

thx!

ok, so another thing I've been thinking about is the integration of rss feeds in search results. I'm a total cpu noob so I have no idea of the feasibility of this, but it'd be nice to be able to subscribe to rss feeds of search words or individual posters.

Baaderonixx, it's something I'd like to do, but it is really quite tricky to do without making a site come to a standstill... To be useful, you have to customise for each user (in the way you mention), which makes it very hard to keep data in memory (needed to make the site run quickly and smoothly), and in addition to this, you have RSS readers that automatically hit the server every 30 seconds checking for updates!

As I say, I'd like to do it in some fashion - it's pretty easy technically, but pretty hard to ensure the site continues to work well.

I know other sites have it, but then sites like Slashdot have something like eighty servers; whereas, ILX has one.

hey keith i don't think i have many but can u tell me how many sb's i ahve?

just curious

Sure, you have one.

Necessity of dumping the mob-rule-enabling Suggest Ban being discussed here:

Missin U <3 - lamentations for those felled by the SB

Yes, Morbs, especially this post.

yeah. I like Matt, but that's BS.

remove suggest ban

whoa what just happened

So I made the change - if you restore defaults on the customise site new answers page, you'll get normal un-styled links back.

mods vs mobs vs morbs

"View in Alphabetical Order". Lol.

Tho it might make me angry seeing it there all the time. Why?! WHHHYYYY?!

where is titles-in-rot13 option?

yeah i don't see the point of it

in case you only like threads that begin with a certain letter???

i like the bullet-changing thing a lot btw

TBH it was more an experiment to see if I could find more space for options. Happy to go with the majority on the alphabetical order thing, but I'll leave it for now - can always change it in a couple of days' time.

order by number of suggest bans generated

Although it was because Billy asked for it. And it's quite reasonable for people to request things that others might not find useful.

I don't mind it but I don't like it not in line with the threads ('cos I'm anal). What is the bullet point thing?

still think suggest excelsior will be a good idea

but it might not be reasonable to implement them all on a top level menu. xxp.

Ned, that's dependent on stylesheet... Which one are you using?

The bullet point thing is where it changes the bullet style to highlight threads you have recently read, but that have posts on them made after you read it.

Ledge, yeah maybe, as I say, most likely temporary. I'll find a way, it's just not completely obvious to me right now.

xp
OK, right, thanks, I'm using style.css

Ah, it may be because your browser hasn't picked up the latest stylesheet (it needed some changes), so you could try refreshing, or killing it and loading again... It's supposed to be in line with the bullets in the new answers list.

Nah, still not in line. I'm using the latest firefox.

S'ok though - I rather like the look of the new blueski...

Any chance of this annoying link for view in alphabetical order at the top being shoved down the bottom of the page out of the way?

Please read above.

Ned, is this what you see?

http://i30.tinypic.com/xdvark.png

Can this alphabetical option not just go in the preferences? I can't really see a widespread enough need for it to have it on New Answers at all times.

The real trick would be to have the alphabetical option for individual threads.

xp - no the 'View...' bit is over to the left.