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.

there was a thread

OTM

that poll was totally wrong though

otm is such a great shorthand that it pains me to not be able to use it in texts and other random correspondence

if you don't do it, how do you expect other ppl to pick it up

I use it everywhere. Even church.

Jesus otm

I...use OTM all the time. And also say 'challops.'

Oh well, everyone thinks I'm crazy anyway

Has anybody mentioned grocery groin in public

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/outofthemoney.asp

"Out of the money" (OTM) is an expression used to describe an option contract that only contains extrinsic value. These options will have a delta of less than 50.0.

so sez google

just make ABBREVS the landing page, n00bs will learn everything they need to know there

Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens) wrote this on thread POPE TO RESIGN WTF? on board I Love Everything on Feb 11, 2013

"Pope otm." is the single greatest sentence ever written on ILX.

in my mind, it's always "on the mark" and not "on the money"

the people have spoken, this is a thought crime

Clearly it means 'on the mend', as in 'your posts sucked so far but they're getting better'.

Anyway, I've tried to get like-minded irl friends (all of whom are heavily left-leaning – sorry, unperson) to check out ILX but they're just not into online discussions with perfect strangers, nor are they criminally addicted music obsessives, so 🤷.

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.ENmvFWRwgPC3Pw5ZorAmigHaHa&pid=Api

77 OTM

xp It may take them a little while. I think my brother told me about ILX about a decade before I actually joined.

Otm means "on the look"

Ahem try #2

Otm means "on the mook"

I have always been slightly sad that "off the money" is abbreviated the same.

Also, "rodents of usual size" would also be abbreviated R.O.U.S.

That’s why we say “notm”

OTM is "on the monkey", it's obscure drug slang known only to people now in their forties.

Peter Gabriel - STM

Other online haunts fail to grasp the concept of 'otm' because none of them ever had a nabisco

Lily dale nu phone who ur brother

y because he look intresting

He posts here sometimes as JoeStork.

Ohhh! That's cool.

Do we have any/many other non-couple family members posting? Skott's bro used to post, right?

Roxy/nijoli

whoa that's cool Lily I almost met yr brother at a Mekons show! it was very crowded.

I was there! Great show.

it really was

Garu and Warren G

has a family member ever lobbied to get their other family member FPed?

can we have bbcode to increase font size? maybe this will help the recurring problem of ilxors starting/continuing beef by not fully reading others' posts?

too big, didn't read

the hide tags work great but could we possibly do TIMED hide tags that disappear after a certain amount of time? Like a week? Is that too much of a pony?

but i'm finally about to watch the 6th sense and I don't want that ending spoiled for me!!

Personal "pin bookmarked thread" option. Sometimes I want to keep a thread easily accessible even without new posts, and find myself bookmarking the second-to-last post in a thread to keep it in view -- in which case it clutters up the regular updated-bookmarks list and doesn't show whether there are actual new posts. My pinned threads could be e.g. in a separate list above the regular updated-bookmarks list, and ideally also have a marker for whether it has new posts.

but i'm finally about to watch the 6th sense and I don't want that ending spoiled for me!!

― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, March 1, 2021 3:18 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it turns out at the end you find out that this movie sucks

Bruce Willis gave Dan Aykroyd the blowjob all along

#onethread

Rosebud was Luke's father

this joke isn't funny anymore

you'll find out that it was Bruce Willis all along

oh shit did i fuck that up?

miso horny

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!!