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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
Love Gravel's ideas.
― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:33 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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.
― grocery groin (snoball), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:41 (nine years ago) Permalink
Sheesh, just asking!
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
avatars
― galumphing lummox (bug), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
No avatars! Ever!
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:44 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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
― grocery groin (snoball), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:45 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
ignore lists
http://www.b3tards.com/u/c2d08cf4e23cfbd9a0c0/duck_hunt_dog.gif
― galumphing lummox (bug), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
i've got no complaints except olive is still showing up blue on SNA colors!
― blobfish russian (harbl), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
Harbl, fixed the colour thing - it'll be Olive when I next upload the software.
― Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:50 (nine years ago) Permalink
=) <3 xp
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
I love the "view previous page" option, by the way.
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:52 (nine years ago) Permalink
No avatars?
http://i25.tinypic.com/4rqkvc.jpg
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:53 (nine years ago) Permalink
thanks :) xp
― blobfish russian (harbl), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:54 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
XML access to bookmarks that have new answers is top o my wishlist :)
― stet, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:59 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
― 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 (nine years ago) Permalink
"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 (nine years ago) Permalink
I think the general feeling is: nothing drastic, please, only small functional adjustments. Right?
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
some sort of something to fix the webmailing reply issue
― http://tinyurl.com/npaahw (s1ocki), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:10 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
― 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 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
S/Dclassic or dudTD: x vs y
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 12 May 2018 02:15 (five months ago) Permalink
POX
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 May 2018 02:22 (five months ago) Permalink
haha, indeed
I was thinking of something with a kind of rollout though, where everybody would discuss the same songs... I guess maybe the poll format is the best for this...
some of the s/d c/d threads are really great but ime the POX format doesn't invite much discussion
― niels, Saturday, 12 May 2018 09:09 (five months ago) Permalink
A wiki for poll results
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 May 2018 09:25 (five months ago) Permalink
max of five posts a day
― ogmor, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:23 (five months ago) Permalink
min of 20 words per post
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:27 (five months ago) Permalink
minimum 1500 karma points to post
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:30 (five months ago) Permalink
there are lots of ilxors whose posts wld be greatly improved by condensing them to under 20 words
― ogmor, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:46 (five months ago) Permalink
isn't this what people were doing on the Eagles/Elton/Joel threads?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:51 (five months ago) Permalink
I really need a "flag every poster who posted to this thread" button. it is extremely time-consuming to click and confirm individual posts when it should be obvious that everyone on certain threads is a terrible idiot who needs to be tempbanned.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 13:31 (five months ago) Permalink
auto-bookmark any thread you post to
― niels, Thursday, 17 May 2018 10:57 (five months ago) Permalink
Then 3 or 4 of you would have every single thread bookmarked.
― Jeff, Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:24 (five months ago) Permalink
haha
― calstars, Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:44 (five months ago) Permalink
a "steam-whistle" feature that locks Tombot out of any thread in which he's shouting at ppl, for 23 hoursa script that threadbans Morbs automatically whenever he posts "bye""liking" posts, but only for estela
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:22 (five months ago) Permalink
feel like if we paid a giant multinational consultancy firm $200k to review ilxor.com these are p much exactly the recommendations they would make
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:47 (five months ago) Permalink
they are good tho
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:06 (five months ago) Permalink
Beatles forum. Quarantine it
― Incline/decline (Ross), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:20 (five months ago) Permalink
a script that threadbans Morbs automatically whenever he posts "bye"― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, May 17, 2018 10:22 PM (yesterday)
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, May 17, 2018 10:22 PM (yesterday)
meaningless w/out a big screen (and disposable there)bye bye!― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, May 17, 2018 10:28 PM (yesterday)
bye bye!
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, May 17, 2018 10:28 PM (yesterday)
a) lol
b) he has already posted three more times in that thread, c'mon Keith or stet
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:20 (five months ago) Permalink
A system that automatically FPs anyone who posts in this thread about another named poster
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 17 May 2018 22:43 (five months ago) Permalink
just protecting yr blood pressure bb
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 18 May 2018 04:31 (five months ago) Permalink
i'm tired of people freaking out every time the Vera Lynn thread pops up on sna. when you bump a thread about an old or infirm celebrity, you should have the option of appending a flair to the thread title to denote the person's vital status ("RIP big man 1919-2018" vs "bih u appalling neocon pos" vs. "still alive!")
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Thursday, 24 May 2018 19:42 (four months ago) Permalink
the script should instead require that whenever morbs has posted "bye" to a thread, his next post must start with "hi! I'm back again."
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 24 May 2018 19:45 (four months ago) Permalink
lol
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Thursday, 24 May 2018 19:46 (four months ago) Permalink
Could we get a checkbox that'd optionally allow a user to sanitize a thread title if it contains profanity? That way I can finally load Star Wars threads at work! (Not that I ever would, mind.)
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 18:32 (four months ago) Permalink
Quiting your job seems the easiest way to deal with this tbh
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 18:33 (four months ago) Permalink
There must be some browser extension that edits out profanity?
― silverfish, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 19:10 (four months ago) Permalink
That would only sanitize what the browser displays, after the page has been requested and loaded through the company servers.
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 19:16 (four months ago) Permalink
i may be alone in this but i wish there were a way to disable seeing twitter embeds
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 8 June 2018 16:39 (four months ago) Permalink
I would like that too
Being able to hide threads would be amazing
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 8 June 2018 16:50 (four months ago) Permalink
also to disable twitter
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Friday, 8 June 2018 17:17 (four months ago) Permalink
i left twitter and stayed on ilx for a reason
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 8 June 2018 17:24 (four months ago) Permalink
i would also like to never read the president's opinion on anything ever again
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 8 June 2018 17:27 (four months ago) Permalink
otm
― sleeve, Friday, 8 June 2018 17:28 (four months ago) Permalink
Maybe extend the Washington redskins feature to trump tweets.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 8 June 2018 21:04 (four months ago) Permalink
Damnit does that not work any more.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 8 June 2018 21:05 (four months ago) Permalink
here's an idea for ilx, kick whoever killed the hatcat autoreplace down the stairs
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 8 June 2018 21:22 (four months ago) Permalink
― stet, Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:18 (four months ago) Permalink
ppl w images turned on are disgusting savages iirc
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:23 (four months ago) Permalink
Is there a way to turn off text and just have images? I'd use that.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:25 (four months ago) Permalink
Abilty to pipe in an audio feed (something like HTTP Live Streaming), and every logged in user on ILM threads would see a tiny discreet play button to optionally listen to it.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:45 (four months ago) Permalink
(shouldn’t cost any bandwidth if it just a referral to the stream URL)
― Siegbran, Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:47 (four months ago) Permalink
Can we have a board-specific random threads feature?
― oder doch?, Monday, 25 June 2018 19:16 (three months ago) Permalink
yessss
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Monday, 25 June 2018 19:17 (three months ago) Permalink
darragh is going to get all the threads sorted
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 25 June 2018 19:26 (three months ago) Permalink
filtered then sorted
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Monday, 25 June 2018 19:26 (three months ago) Permalink
then lightly toasted
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 June 2018 21:08 (three months ago) Permalink
wait am i rex or audrey this time tracer
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Monday, 25 June 2018 21:13 (three months ago) Permalink
ban-user-by-topic
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Monday, 13 August 2018 13:42 (two months ago) Permalink
change the link to read 'shite new answers'
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 10:01 (two months ago) Permalink
Lol
― Crowmengus (Ross), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 10:45 (two months ago) Permalink