Ideas for ILX

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.

That was when you could click a category for your thread - I think that was discontinued a while ago.

Yes. I remember 'Momus Momus Momus' was another category. I liked the system for a while, but it got messy as people would select inappropriate categories for the lols. We pretty much have a looser version of that now, with the microboards, right?

Did something change in the bookmarks settings? Clicking on 'old' threads - I think threads that were last updated a month ago or longer - I once bookmarked and that are updated now takes me to the top of the thread again, instead of to the last added message. Is this a change?

i miss categories, but i dont think we'll ever have them again

this isn't so much of an idea as it is a question, so...

why is it that some of the threads on the main ILE page say 'last updated X hours ago by YYYYY', but others only say 'last updated X hours ago' ???

like this

goin to africa, brb [Started by i want to marry a pizza (gbx) in June 2009, last updated 3 hours ago by ENBB] 3 new answers
rolling mma thread [Started by mad loli vamp bone (cankles) in January 2009, last updated 3 hours ago]
The worst word of these words [Started by sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE) in June 2009, last updated 4 hours ago] POLL results
Twitter C/D [Started by Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows in July 2008, last updated 4 hours ago by kshighway] 12 new answers

I'm still getting used to using Site New Answers - like kenan, I never used to use it - , which is why I've recently posted a couple of times on boards I'm not a part of (I don't know if they're supposed to feel like separate communities, but to me they (and the watercooler and localised threads) do, like 1p3, that's for Roxy and friends, for instance) - but I've found the Select the boards you want to see on Site New Answers preference, so I won't anymore.

When Keith resets something on the server, it starts rebuilding that info from that point onwards. So the threads that do show the Last updated by info have been updated since that point. I think. Xpost

And your example already disproves that theory, the one that was updated four hours ago doesn't show who did, but the three hours ago one does. Oh well.

stan, everyone is a part of 1p3

why would you block it out of your life

Afraid of the mods there :-(

j/k :-)

Just feel like separate communities, that's all.

this was probably already talked about somewhere but is there any way to modify the search user function to search only the permanent login name and not the ever-shifting display name. the ridic amount of display name puns makes searching for an actual poster's stuff impossible sometimes.

The 'displayName:"part of name inside parens"' search already does this.

hmm? is it something you have to enter in the search box to specify inside the parentheses? sry, i'm dense.

If I wanted to search for your posts, I'd click the "posts" radio button under the search box and type displayName:"call all destroyer"; I might order by newest posts first if I was looking for a recent post.