Ideas for ILX

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.

any chance of being able to order the list of boards on the board page?

guh dan i'm going to have more dumb questions later because i can't figure this out but want to leave work badly.

destroyer, you need to use the *lower* search form. just scroll down...

This counts as a minor annoyance but it would be good if it could be fixed. The multi line "add a post" box on the blackberry does not wrap, I.e. Until you hit return you write one long line of text that horizontally scrolls through the box, it would be great if whatever fag that could be set to make text wrap could be set.

ban every1 get new posters

ok, so this started because i wanted to search for user "dada" who wrote the only reply on kraan's ilm thread. so if, using the second search box, i just type "dada," select the radio button for posts, and order by newsest first, i get kbp's posts from mid-july when he was using the disp name "some dada."

otoh, if i do what i think dan was saying and enter 'displayName:"dada"' and keep everything else the same, it actually searches POSTS, not users, for "dada." and this is def in the lower search box.

so um what am i missing? thanks ilx voluntary tech support.

I was talking about the top search box, the text search (which is the only one I use). I switch the radio button below it to posts and do 'displayName:"whatevs"' to find posts by user whatevs.

Sorry for creating confusion! I will let ppl who actually use the "search by user" box answer from now on.

k so if i do that in text search with my example i still get the newest kbp posts, not the guy who thought kraan was mediocre. maybe there is no way to do what i'm talking about?

you could ask dada for his login email and search by that