Ideas for ILX

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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.

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link

  • 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

kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link

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

kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link

Love Gravel's ideas.

Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link

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).

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

N1ck (Upt0eleven), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link

I mean if it helps, happy to unmod you.

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

grocery groin (snoball), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link

Sheesh, just asking!

kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link

avatars

galumphing lummox (bug), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link

No avatars! Ever!

kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, I wasn't really thinking of avatars!

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link

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

grocery groin (snoball), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link

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 rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link

ignore lists

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

galumphing lummox (bug), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link

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

blobfish russian (harbl), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link

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

I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link

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

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

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link

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

N1ck (Upt0eleven), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link

=) <3 xp

I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link

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

kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link

No avatars?

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

StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link

thanks :) xp

blobfish russian (harbl), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link

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

StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link

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

stet, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link

"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?

thomp, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link

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

StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link

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

StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link

some sort of something to fix the webmailing reply issue

http://tinyurl.com/npaahw (s1ocki), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link

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, 1 August 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link

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

StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link

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?

http://tinyurl.com/npaahw (s1ocki), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link

You need to pony up for ILX Premium.

the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 8 September 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link

Doctor Casino: yep that’s exactly what I did to a T. Strange. Oh well, guess I’ll just have to deal with it. Thanks for your help anyway!

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 8 September 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link

If I search for posts containing the term “blue monday” (with quotes)

your browser (phone?) is helpfully converting your straight quotes (") to "smart quotes". suspect the search software wants straight ones.

difficult listening hour, Thursday, 8 September 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link

can test by copying this text into the search box rather than typing it yourself:

"blue monday"

on an iphone i think you can force a normal quote mark by holding down the key? these are the wages of ""“aesthetics”""

difficult listening hour, Thursday, 8 September 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link

OMG YOU ARE A GENIIOUS!!!!!!!

Fuck an iPhone and its lameass smart-quotes.

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 8 September 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link

This works on zing search fyi

stet, Friday, 9 September 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link

two months pass...

I’d like a new borad called Bad Poll Prison where I can make bad polls without feeling like I’m clogging up a real borad

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 05:30 (ten months ago) link

nothing is real, everything is polled

two weeks pass...

xp just choose a moribund sub-board and use it for that purpose --

sarahell, Monday, 12 December 2022 18:57 (nine months ago) link

one month passes...

"For You"

koogs, Thursday, 26 January 2023 20:02 (eight months ago) link

lol

ledge, Thursday, 26 January 2023 21:11 (eight months ago) link

isn't that what Blog View is

rob, Thursday, 26 January 2023 21:36 (eight months ago) link

Blog View has been borked for years, I'd love to have it back and probably said so upthread.

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Thursday, 26 January 2023 22:16 (eight months ago) link

blog view felt like “jacking in” to ilx

not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Thursday, 26 January 2023 22:20 (eight months ago) link

ILX marketplace thread? Buy and sell your stuff?

calstars, Friday, 27 January 2023 19:01 (eight months ago) link

three weeks pass...

Is there a way to disable the "s" keyboard shortcut that redirects to Site New Answers?

Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 19 February 2023 01:44 (seven months ago) link

i jut found a way to diable the "" key entirely, not ure if that help

POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 February 2023 06:06 (seven months ago) link

xp the whaaaaaa?

holy shit I did not know about this one

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Sunday, 19 February 2023 16:14 (seven months ago) link

I used to and then forgot until now

obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Sunday, 19 February 2023 16:17 (seven months ago) link

Never knew about it either. It's web only I assume, not the apps.

after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2023 16:32 (seven months ago) link

lol forks

after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2023 16:32 (seven months ago) link

Is there a keyboard shortcut for 'remove bookmark from this thread'? Actually, is there a place to check all keyboard shortcuts? Is there a keyboard shortcut for 'find all keyboard shortcuts'?

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 19 February 2023 17:34 (seven months ago) link

Does anyone have an aspirin?

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 19 February 2023 17:34 (seven months ago) link

I had no idea there were shortcuts at all!

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:58 (six months ago) link

i have been using 'b' for a while (to bookmark a thread or update a bookmark to the latest post on a thread), but 's' is new to me! i do think using the two in tandem could lead to subconscious drives to suggest ban people, but sometimes you have to take risks for shortcut conveniences

z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 18:00 (six months ago) link

s b and numerals are great shortcuts

corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 March 2023 07:07 (six months ago) link

Is there a list anywhere, my mind is totally blown there is also a bookmark one too.

Chewshabadoo, Friday, 3 March 2023 08:29 (six months ago) link

try it. type random letters, see what it does!

koogs, Friday, 3 March 2023 09:04 (six months ago) link

numbers = not sure
b = bookmark
p = add post (moves focus to the text box)
s = site new answers

koogs, Friday, 3 March 2023 09:39 (six months ago) link

numbers = goto bookmark n

koogs, Friday, 3 March 2023 09:40 (six months ago) link

Leviticus = create poll

waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 March 2023 14:02 (six months ago) link

four months pass...

non-joking request to ban Twitter / X embeds. just have it be a url

budo jeru, Monday, 31 July 2023 20:41 (one month ago) link

pretty sure you can shut that off in preferences

(•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 31 July 2023 20:46 (one month ago) link

it's all or nothing, that shuts off images as well

out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 31 July 2023 20:47 (one month ago) link

"Show Images (and other embedded media, like videos and Tweets)"

out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 31 July 2023 20:47 (one month ago) link

it's the sacrifice you make i guess

(•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 31 July 2023 20:52 (one month ago) link

It would be cool if that preference could be separated.

beard papa, Monday, 31 July 2023 21:49 (one month ago) link

actually you should try it, i made that choice awhile back and now it’s nice, unlike the rest of the internet i get to read a conversation without letting dumb reaction memes drive my understanding of it

the late great, Monday, 31 July 2023 23:38 (one month ago) link

people post reaction memes here?

budo jeru, Monday, 31 July 2023 23:41 (one month ago) link

I opted for images, videos & tweets to load as links years ago. I can easily just load the exact item I want to view without constantly loading/reloading a couple dozen images, gifs, etc. that were part of a conversation from days, months or years earlier. Just seems like a cleaner solution overall.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 31 July 2023 23:55 (one month ago) link

cleanliness while maintaining density of useful info is imo the one virtue this place has in spades that entire
rest of internet really does not (wikipedia may be only real exception that is not some real specific niche thing)

the late great, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 00:39 (one month ago) link

#onethread

budo jeru, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 01:23 (one month ago) link

hilarious inside jokes, you forgot to mention

budo jeru, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 01:23 (one month ago) link

yes much richer and better than any “he’s not wrong you know” (you’re not!)

the late great, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 01:24 (one month ago) link

sorry everyone but

you might say we excel at it

the late great, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 01:26 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

non-joking request to ban Twitter / X embeds. just have it be a url

― budo jeru, Monday, July 31, 2023 3:41 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

pretty sure you can shut that off in preferences

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, July 31, 2023 3:46 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's all or nothing, that shuts off images as well

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, July 31, 2023 3:47 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

hi, can we please talk about having a twitter-specific toggle?

budo jeru, Monday, 18 September 2023 15:33 (one week ago) link

Yeah while you’re at it if zing had the option to hide certain threads that would be great

ydkb (gyac), Monday, 18 September 2023 16:36 (one week ago) link

xp would be good if people could c&p the text of the tweet if it's worth reading, Twitter is so shite now I don't want to go and open it up

kinder, Monday, 18 September 2023 20:30 (one week ago) link

Yeah, kind of surprised it's still the only embedded social network here, and that so many are still reading and linking from it. I would hit the embeds if it were an option.

beard papa, Monday, 18 September 2023 21:02 (one week ago) link


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