Ideas for ILX

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.

Matt, see about ten posts up for this: Ideas for ILX

Ned, makes me wonder if your browser's caught up with the stylesheet yet - I'm using latest FF too here.

ah mine just caught up, blueski on camino. it just takes a few min.

AFAIC, Site New Answers is now perfect and awesome. Thanks Keith!

Yeah, looks awesome. Sorry about all my moaning and wailing yesterday. I was one big nerve ending, no reason for all that.

Thanks Keith, all these changes are awesome. And thank you too Kenan, for the kenan_style.css, this will be my stylesheet for a while. All these combined, it feels like a brand new ILX for me.

Cheers. Kenan, no need to worry about that.

cant the menu buttons just be smaller?

:)

since i am being a whiney bitch on the sb thread, wanted to tip my hat to keith for his work on the board overherre :) thanks!

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Seriously, what value does this "alphabetical order" thing have. What nonsense.

Shh. It's done.

(But of course I personlly think it's frivolous at best, and could be moved to the bottom of the page at the least.)

11th burger is free!

^^^^^

i remember there was another feature i saw once elsewhere basically new answers would normally hide any threads that hasn't had an update since you last read it. would that be possible? saves me obsessively clicking the same threads even though they haven't had updates.

Check the bullet points, Ken:

OK so if you're logged in, then for any threads you have read, if there are subsequent new messages on that thread, the bullet on the new answers page will indicate it - on most stylesheets as an empty bullet, but as different colours on some. Happy for suggestions except penguins as to how it should be indicated though - for now, let me know if it works OK.

― Keith, Sunday, August 2, 2009 7:25 PM (4 days ago)

ooooh i see. will see if i can hide the thread altogether using a stylesheet.. my self control isn't so good so even if i see a funny bullet colour i'd totally just click on it so i'll need to lock myself out of those and throw away the keys

mmm actually that'd also hide all the threads that i have never looked at. okay i'll just have to train myself.

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Ha! Now we're just straight up admitting we're addicts right?

Is it only an impression or does this "threads you have read have another bullet" thing sometimes randomly (?) reset and forget the threads I visited? I don't think it's at midnight or it cancels when you haven't visited the thread for more than 24 hours or something, it seems a bit random. (if the reply is "every time I reboot the server" then could you please not reboot the server so often?) :-)

I'm sure that when I first found ILX threads were organised somewhere by folders - can't remember how exactly because it disappeared soon after, but one was something like '9/11 and everything after'. Does that page still exist? It was fun to browse.