Ideas for ILX

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

mostly i just wanted to see if he was still around since the post was from years ago. but this is not the first time this has happened to me w/punned usernames and search.

Can we have the ability to change our votes on polls? It seems that once we vote, if we select anything else and re-vote we're told we've already voted and can't vote again.

wouldn't it just be easier to search for kraan?

POX: Krautrock

Anyone else getting large white spaces between some topics on the new answerspage?
like this
http://i32.tinypic.com/2u422wz.jpg

its been happening for a few days and keeps appearing now and again.
Im using old.css: Original ILX2 Live Stylesheet

it's because of the characters in rabies' username

ahh ok, thanks Dan.

haha its really funny that its "cheetos" thats singled out there

is it possible to make links in posts automatically open in a new tab/window?

just middle click them

i get kbp's posts from mid-july when he was using the disp name "some dada."

And you consider this a bad result??

it's because of the characters in rabies' username

This seems to happen every time Jrabies posts to a thread. Maybe someone should ask him to change his username?

xpost if i want your posts i know where to find you!

Hey, how about threads existing on multiple boards? So like a thread could be on both "I Love Everything" and "I Love Film"? Or "I Love Comics" and "I Love Cooking" if it's some cooking-related comic?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UKZle04oFnc/SFdGKUPYevI/AAAAAAAAAqw/FjFvQ5Jhf4Q/s400/dope%2Bexploding%2Bhead.jpg

YOU JUST BLEW MY MIND

Or in some cases, a heady melange of I Love Cooking, ILTMI and Thread Dump

"heady"

Here's an Idea:

Search page:

Any chance of adding "thread last updated" date to the result, when you are searching threads?

What happens at the mo is you get loads of similarly named threads for, say, "Kraftwerk", and you end up clicking each to find the most relevant/up-to-date one to add your new comment/info to.

If you tap "most relevant first" when searching for a thread, I think the threads will appear in the order they've last been updated, so the one with the newest posts will be the first result.

I guess there should be some sort of explanation what "most relevant first" actually means, it took me a while to get it.

Been enjoying the various music writing threads of late -- how about the re-emergence of an I Love Writing board?

xpost Yeah, but what is "Relevance"?

Date last updated? Number of messages already in thread?

Actually, both of those would be good. They used to be on all threads on "New Answers" back inthe day.

idea: a "View Next Page" link at the bottom of an abbreviated page to go with the "View Previous Page" at the top

it would be really cool if ilx could have a bikini babe of the day displayed on the "boards" page. just a thought.

idea: a "View Next Page" link at the bottom of an abbreviated page to go with the "View Previous Page" at the top

Actually, this already sort of exists. Just click the "Permalink" button on the last post of the abbreviated page and it'll give you a new abbreviated page starting with that post.