Ideas for ILX

Does anyone have any ideas for things they'd like to see - I've kind of run out of ideas for now. I can't promise I'll do them: some things are easy, some are hard, some might be unrealistic (need to bear in mind performance and avoidance of poxy fules and so on); also, how much it interests me is the most important motivating factor... It'd be good to hear people's thoughts.

I will put the stats thing back at some point, but perhaps in a bit of a different form.

Oooo!

More poll forms would be fun. One that allowed you to rank the options from first to last, say, or just allowed you to tick multiple boxes, livejournal style.

• make a toggle option allowing mods to see either images or image links
• let poll options allow more characters
• get rid of suggest ban
• pizza subs tuesdays

The mod image thing is a security thing. If it weren't any sort of issue I would just turn them on.

Oh right, you've said that before. Perhaps I am ignorant, but I don't get why it's a security thing?

Love Gravel's ideas.

A preview screen. I've been tempted at times to just throw in a [//x] every once in awhile so at least the BBcode warning page will let me take a second glance.

It's a long and complicated story, but the root of it is that when your browser tries to go and get a picture, it doesn't check that it's a picture and if it's a piece of script instead, will just happily execute it, which can be subverted to make existing mods do things they didn't know they were doing (e.g. grant someone else mod privileges or whatever).

a kudos/props/Suggest Unban button, with the 51 resulting in an automatic permaban being an aggregate of the two. last time I mention this, I promise.

I see. What about for mods that don't have that many privileges in the first place, like me and other subboard mods? Sorry to go on about this, but 1p3 is 90% picture threads!

Also, I think ILX is great as is and I would just say: continue keeping it simple and plain.

Roxy, yes there's less danger there, but you can still ban people, delete posts, delete threads, unban people etc.

I mean if it helps, happy to unmod you.

continue keeping it simple and plain

^^^ seconded - I love love love the way that ILX threads load up super quick, compared to other boards where you're sitting around waiting for two minutes.

Sheesh, just asking!

avatars

No avatars! Ever!

Nick, that's OK: suggest ban is the best feature I've ever come up with - I think there are any number of ways you could subtly modify it and I have changed it recently it to drop older SBs from people, but I doubt we'll ever conclude on the 'right' way for it to work, and the people who don't like it, I doubt will ever be convinced, so would be good if this thread didn't become about that; I've little doubt it'll be discussed probably at length elsewhere.

Yeah, I wasn't really thinking of avatars!

no avatars - please, I think that's the start of a slippery slope towards phpBB style bloat

i echo Roxy's simple and plain praise. love that.

i would also love to see a magenta screen with white font option

I love love love the way that ILX threads load up super quick

Yes I like this - someone described other message boards as having a kind of underwater feeling... That said, ILX isn't fast because it's minimal on the screen; it's because of the server software - could afford to put quite a lot more on the screen without it becoming slow. Not that this is necessarily a good idea.

Surm, appreciate CSS might not be your thing, but if it is, then you can make a stylesheet to look like that and I'll stick it up... There are some instructions (a little out of date, but basically OK) here: http://www.ilxor.com/ilxstyles.html

ignore lists

http://www.b3tards.com/u/c2d08cf4e23cfbd9a0c0/duck_hunt_dog.gif

i've got no complaints except olive is still showing up blue on SNA colors!

maybe i can get kenan to make me one... i'm using his gray one now and it's real nice

Oh bugger! That's easy enough to fix, Harbl.

Bug, yes I was thinking that would be something I should do.

ilx is the hottness of message boards. i do think surm's suggestion should be mandatory not optional, though. :)

Harbl, fixed the colour thing - it'll be Olive when I next upload the software.

=) <3 xp

More poll forms would be fun. One that allowed you to rank the options from first to last, s

I like the sound of that.

I love the "view previous page" option, by the way.

No avatars?

http://i25.tinypic.com/4rqkvc.jpg

thanks :) xp

Some kind of two minute "Edit my last message" option in case of tpyos you only notice after you hit submit.

On the other hand, ILX is ILX because there are no Avatars or Edit after submit options. Read what you tpye before you submit and you won't post typos.

XML access to bookmarks that have new answers is top o my wishlist :)

ILX threads can get so fast that it's more like chat than forum, so even 2mins can be way too long.

Could there be a count of the number of users online displayed at the top somewhere? Just a simple count of logged-in users (but not names, cos that would be crepey). Wouldn't be at all useful, just mildly intersting.

ILX threads can get so fast that it's more like chat than forum, so even 2mins can be way too long.

― stet, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:00 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is the reason I Love ILX over all others. It's both at the same time. And needs to stay that way.

"I have changed it recently it to drop older SBs from people"

this sounds like a really good idea! can i ask what the cutoff point is?

I think the general feeling is: nothing drastic, please, only small functional adjustments. Right?

People who haven't posted for six months should have all the bans they've suggested returned to them in a box.

I would like a way to see how many SB's you have. (Now, I have no idea how annoying I am.)

Yeah, I'm not a fan of SB in general, but it seems like it would do more good if a person saw that they were getting close to the mark.

some sort of something to fix the webmailing reply issue

Could there be a count of the number of users online displayed at the top somewhere? Just a simple count of logged-in users (but not names, cos that would be crepey). Wouldn't be at all useful, just mildly interesting.

Yeah that's a nice idea, maybe wouldn't be too difficult to do either.

Stan - I've never been convinced by people's anti-SB argument around the "for the lols" thing, because no-one can see it. This is why I didn't make it available, so that it couldn't be used in this way. That said, I've been considering maybe warning people when they get to 40 or something. This would only affect a few people. Also - I wouldn't worry about your own position re: SBs.

S1ocki, I don't know what the issue is. I was asked recently to remove 'reply to' from webmail, because people were being hassled off board.

Ok, thanks, that makes sense (why SBs aren't public). xpost

S1ocki, I don't know what the issue is. I was asked recently to remove 'reply to' from webmail, because people were being hassled off board.

― Keith, Saturday, August 1, 2009 5:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there was ever a "reply to"?

every webmail i've gotten has been unreplyable. which is ok, but maybe there shoudl be some sort of reminder to put your own email address in the message? or even an optional field for your email addy?

More poll forms would be fun. One that allowed you to rank the options from first to last, say, or just allowed you to tick multiple boxes, livejournal style.

Would like this!

Also, if you decide to _not_ bring back lists of ILX-wide stats, I would still be interested in personal stats on on each person's profile page re: how many posts they've made, how many threads they've started, etc. Or at least a way for each user to see their own info.

Put "Remove Bookmark From This Thread" at the top of the page so I don't need to load the whole monthly politics page.

idea 4 u: never bookmark a politics thread

Mods, help me stop punching myself in the face

i would like to volunteer to help out with a new FAQ -- I enjoy welcoming newcomers and have a mind for inclusion that i would be happy to apply to the ilx concept. i also have a lot of time on my hands at the moment and would like some practice writing FAQs, which i believe there should be more of in the world.

webmail works but lots of you know how to reach me. m bison otm about never bookmarking politics thread!!

I would like to have the ability to 'follow' certain posters whose posts I especially enjoy so that I do not miss out when they post to theads I am otherwise disinclined to read.

Nothing that makes ilx more like social media, please.

emoji react buttons plz

I want a button that takes $5 away from another ILXor. but after you click the button, for a random hour any time during the next week, someone can click the button on you and if you don't hit the "block" button, they get $10 from you.

jigglepanda.gif

how stet ends up in a lawsuit alleging over $45,000 of owed payments to various ilxors

Deflatormouse, you can search the boards for posts or threads written by a given poster, sorted chronologically, if that helps.

Thx

Xpost to pbkr- i had that same thought but i think social media algorithms make you sift through a lot of stuff to find what you're looking for? Or at least they used to, i haven't touched social media in years. I find ilx to be the same way pretty much, so in that sense what i proposed would make it less like social media.

Sorry, no likes, no follows, only otms.

PBKR otm

That should be the ILX slogan.

Learn it. Know it. Live it.

hey i got a message from stet about helping to edit the FAQ but i have a couple of questions -- so i will ask them here
* can i make comments on the doc?
* if not, how should i collect my comments?

sorry i don't know who to email specifically about this so i am putting it here.

(i think it's really cool you're offering to help withe the FAQ, LL! I am a mess right now but it makes me feel good that it's in good hands :))

Sorry LL, I was meant to deal with this but I had loads of energy for it at first and then completely tapered off and now I can't even think about it for any longer than a second at a time. But while I was reworking it I just made comments as I went in brackets/italics, so feel free to do similar yourself on the doc.

Hey LL - yes that doc is purely a working doc so fire in as you like, or use the gdocs comment feature if you prefer

ok cool thanks! i will probably get to it sometime tomorrow. my two tasks for tomorrow are this and writing my first essay for public eyes in ages and i am excited about both. Feeling laid off and fired up lol

hey stet fyi that dollar signs appear to break url tags: Spotify - anyone heard of it?

(if a mod happens to see this and want to tidy that link and delete my followup, please do - I really didn't want to embed that guy)

got it, ta!

autoreplace script that turns all of xzanfar's posts into links that include the video title

let me amend that: for all video links on ILM except xzanfar’s
I like the idea of having a poster whose legacy will consist of one big gaping black hole

we got a few of those already hey-yo

fixing "View Previous Page" would be good but I think it's been broken for years so maybe not gonna happen

what bit is broken? I know there's a case where it doesn't work, but can't remember what it is — if I click the one here it works OK

has been working for me. used it yesterday.

I usually use it on really long threads, where I want to read the messages immediately preceding the Show 1000000 messages, and you click the permalink link on the first message after Show X messages, then click View Previous Page, and it shows the previous messages.

This often doesn't work - the thread I was trying to do this on yesterday was the covid thread: Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

just tried it now and it's still not working - you just get the same messages as if you opened the thread from SNA

it does work on this thread though

If it helps for debugging/diagnostics, on that covid thread as of now, the message immediately after the "Click here to load all messages" has this url on the "link" link:

Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

if I click that link, the View Previous Page URL is:

Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

clicking that just takes me to the thread as if I'd just opened it from ILE/SNA. Shows the first 50/last 50 message (or whatever the number is) with Click Here to load all messages in the middle

If I do the same thing on this thread, which works, the View Previous Page URL is:

Ideas for ILX

So it looks like your bug is the missing bookmarkedmessageid URL parameter.

Thanks CP - I think that is now fixed — you should be able to View Previous Page continuously right the way back to the first post in a thread.

There's a chance that means on poll threads you'll get back to the start and still won't see the poll options, i'll need to confirm that but it seems like an edge case right now.

Idea for ILX: In search results, show the number of posts in a thread and when it was last posted to. Would make it easier to revive the most active thread for people or topics with many threads.

^^

number of posts, especially

Good idea, also "sort by recently posted to" isn't the same as "sort by most recently created" so would be good to have those as two different options.

Yes!

stet, thanks for the work on Previous Page!

thanks to Colonel Poo for figuring it out! I've stumbled over it myself in the past and always failed to later figure out what caused it so it could be fixed. Been about for years!

That search thing is a great idea but also pretty hard to do, sorry

i think each post should be tokenized and traded with cryptocurrency. we've all been posting without profit for too long, and this would allow us to establish clear provenance for our posts while innovating in the downstream-contract asset transfer sector. for example, a simple metadata layer could guarantee that i get a 10% cut from future sales of this post, no matter how many time this asset is traded.

it's either that or we all get paid $.000000004 per post view. problem with that is that it's not inherently profitable and innovative like crypto-ilx, so we'd have to secure outside funding if we're all going to get paid a living wage for posting (and we SHOULD be paid a living wage for posting). luckily i know these cryptodudes who recently got rich so

people like to complain about losing posters, less posting activity, etc, but if we were just paid a living wage i think those trends would immediately reverse

It should be the other way round. No payment for posts. Pay people to read.

no, i want to get paid

paid for posting

i've heard it from more than one person now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7t8eoA_1jQ

Crypto-ilx would result in an interesting ethical dilemma wherein ppl want to write long threads about the carbon footprint of ILX posts and debate the ethics of posting under the new system, but the debate itself uses vast amounts of energy.

personally, every single post i make it fraught with ethical tension!

but that's because i have to hustle to get by in this information economy

would it be possible to extend the colors specified on "Customize Site New Answers" to the individual board pages as well?