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.

otm, plz no

I would enjoy 16x16 pixel avatars

maybe that's for a different forum than this one

emojis

it's the "photos on your phone" case I'm mostly thinking about tbh.

― stet, Thursday, June 18, 2020 9:25 AM

So could I start a thread called Content PP on the HTML board, and curate it as my personal imageshackesque account?

emojis

https://i.imgur.com/Ql7iJJX.jpg

i need $5 for the final push

Leave ILX as is. If you are truly craving avatars, emoji, and picture hosting galore, drop by and say hi on poxyfule.slack.com

moodles otm

slack has the most cats

i need $5 for the final push

― Karl Malone, Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:27 PM bookmarkflaglink

every time I see a Biden email taht sends this, I wonder if the $5 is for Metamucil

I don't want to fall short

an 'all one thread' view

How would that differ from SNA?

Because SNA is a list of threads not a single thread

Sort of like Blog View?

Yes but no

I do appreciate this could belong on your terrible ideas as replying is problematic to manage but it's inspired by

time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone) wrote this on thread outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc) on board I Love Everything on 25-Jun-2020

oops, forgot which thread this was! sorry. it's all one thread, etc

Karl Malone wrote this on thread 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread, pt 3: life is very long on board I Love Everything on 13-Mar-2020

oops my bad too.

it's all one thread, basically

we could completely remove the need for attempting to post in the correct one out of the 142 active US Pol/'rona/streaming threads

you mean, the true giant singular thread, omino?

i would love to see that, as an experiment. many have said it wasn't even possible

xp!

can't claim credit for the "all of ilx is one thread" idea, although i do believe in it

someone mentioned it earlier that day and i was just riffing off of it (sorry i can't remember details)

Yes, just need to work out how to manage replies. Maybe set it so anyone posting to the Singularity would only have their reply only visible there

ooh, that's an interesting idea. do i have this right: you can only see the mini conversation tree if you actually reply to the post in question? and once you do, it opens up the rest of the replies to that post (as part of the infinite thread)?

if that were the case, you wouldn't be able to read the responses to ideas before throwing your own in there, which would be very different from ilx and very interesting, too. though, i guess you could just reply "-" and then see the responses.

oh wait, haha sorry omino. now i'm realizing what you meant (it was very clear, i'm just amped up on coffee). i like the idea of singularity-thread only posts too, heh

b-but 77

Maybe a board level single thread would be better because I dont think a million Beatles posts mixed with a million Trump posts would be good for anyone.

embrace the soup

Don't anyone dare to mess with I Love Books! or I'll... I'll... do something rash!

like write one?

you could make it a user preference or menu link so everyone can retain their normal multi thread ILB but you have the option for soupview

Aimless already wrote a book and it is in my pile of ilxor books to read

Re a single thread, I think a better idea for ilx would be for Americans to exercise a tiny bit of self-control when it comes to starting a new thread about the current neverending election that is identical to the 243 extant threads on same

you think that would be easier than reprogramming an entire message board?

The purpose of new threads is to avoid unloadably long threads

but the purpose of cars is to avoid long walks, and yet we all sit still within them together on the way to work all the same

btw, this is closely related to the thread about how the mods did 9/11 (obviously true, it's more about why they did it)

#onethread

#onethread
#except77

We used to have One Thread, it was called Site New Posts and only mods could see it. It was technically problematic - it’s hard to do the security thing and make sure only 77 members see 77 posts on there. I loved it though, it’s a great idea.

Pretty sure not reading the thread before you post would not be an innovation for a significant number of ilxors

I was thinking, there should just be one long thread

ILX should have a virtual Tip Jar, because tipping should be encouraged whenever a service is rendered. Then each registered user could have a running total of how much they've tipped ILX, just like each of us has a total of how many posts we've made.

(Aimless stands back, hooks his thumbs in his braces and admires his suggestion for several minutes before clicking Submit Post.)

Not a bad thought but let's take it to its logical conclusion and bill people for bad posts

or kill people who have goats

IPv6 for the ilxor.com domain/server - just found myself on an IPv6-only LAN and couldn’t connect.

aw dude goats are great

good shout Siegbran, will take a look

what ipv6 lan doesn’t have a proxy/dns translation layer tho

Can we auto-replace "The Discourse" with "DUMPLINGS!!"

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Can we auto-replace "The 1975" with "BALLOON”?!

can we auto-replace "taibbi" with "proxy/dns translation layer"?