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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) Permalink
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:26 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) Permalink
Love Gravel's ideas.
― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:33 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) Permalink
Sheesh, just asking!
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:42 (eight years ago) Permalink
avatars
― galumphing lummox (bug), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:43 (eight years ago) Permalink
No avatars! Ever!
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:44 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) Permalink
ignore lists
http://www.b3tards.com/u/c2d08cf4e23cfbd9a0c0/duck_hunt_dog.gif
― galumphing lummox (bug), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:48 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) Permalink
=) <3 xp
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:51 (eight 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 (eight years ago) Permalink
I love the "view previous page" option, by the way.
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:52 (eight years ago) Permalink
No avatars?
http://i25.tinypic.com/4rqkvc.jpg
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:53 (eight years ago) Permalink
thanks :) xp
― blobfish russian (harbl), Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:54 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) Permalink
XML access to bookmarks that have new answers is top o my wishlist :)
― stet, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:59 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) Permalink
I think the general feeling is: nothing drastic, please, only small functional adjustments. Right?
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:06 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) Permalink
some sort of something to fix the webmailing reply issue
― http://tinyurl.com/npaahw (s1ocki), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:10 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) Permalink
If stet could find an image-hosting service that was free and lasted forever, then sure, I'd be all for it. I'm a serial image poster, especially when they make no sense and have no relevance to the thread.
But that said, Doctor Casino OTM. On the Hüsker Dü countdown thread, I hosted all the images on Photobucket which all turned into hotlinking images recently. I had all the images still on a folder on my hard drive, so I was able to re-upload them all through Imgur, even though the broken images are still scattered throughout the thread. No big deal, not big enough at least to warrant extra expenses and coding.
― pplains, Sunday, 7 January 2018 01:07 (four months ago) Permalink
That Scott Baio impersonator is gone forever though.
oof hadn't thought about the malware angle, that's a great point
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 7 January 2018 01:09 (four months ago) Permalink
somewhat related, it seems like youtube links used to be embedded in a different way, and a lot of old embeds are now blank, no link url, just a big white space - could something be done abt this?
― niels, Sunday, 7 January 2018 09:09 (four months ago) Permalink
stetPosted: January 6, 2018 at 7:48:21 PMI'm working on an image upload thing for Zing — the big thing with images is the bandwidth costs, so starting with just posts from it will let me figure out what we're realistically looking at there.Brilliant
― calstars, Sunday, 7 January 2018 16:29 (four months ago) Permalink
I use the tinypic iOS keyboard for image posting sometimes. Works well.
― Jeff, Sunday, 7 January 2018 17:17 (four months ago) Permalink
You just tap the pic in your photo roll and it paste a URL. Annoying thing is you have to add the http:// but then it works fine. TinyPic Keyboard by Photobucket.comhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tinypic-keyboard/id1027505227?mt=8
― Jeff, Sunday, 7 January 2018 17:23 (four months ago) Permalink
TinyPic Keyboard by Photobucket.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tinypic-keyboard/id1027505227?mt=8
Actually, I just went into the settings and you can change that. And even add bbcode tags.
― Jeff, Sunday, 7 January 2018 17:28 (four months ago) Permalink
Did we ever get any consensus on 'hide thread'
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 12:20 (four months ago) Permalink
It's annoying that after flag posting Turrican someone, the thread jumps back up to the first post.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 19:42 (four months ago) Permalink
Hide thread would be amazing
― mor frog bs (S-), Thursday, 11 January 2018 06:53 (four months ago) Permalink
Hide someone would be amazing
― coombespair gaz prices (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 January 2018 09:25 (four months ago) Permalink
a hide-ing to nothing
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 January 2018 09:59 (four months ago) Permalink
Hide site
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 January 2018 10:00 (four months ago) Permalink
hide self ftw
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 January 2018 10:02 (four months ago) Permalink
It was all we had left to try
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 January 2018 10:06 (four months ago) Permalink
― coombespair gaz prices (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 11, 2018 3:25 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pplains, Thursday, 11 January 2018 14:25 (four months ago) Permalink
I guess you're joking, but hide a poster would... not be a good thing
― niels, Thursday, 11 January 2018 19:33 (four months ago) Permalink
isn't that just a killfile?
― the late great, Thursday, 11 January 2018 19:36 (four months ago) Permalink
Disable thread creation
― brimstead
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― mor frog bs (S-),
=
gradually whittling ilx down to nothing
thumbs up
― the late great, Thursday, 11 January 2018 19:40 (four months ago) Permalink
Compared to other boards, there's very little dissensus here to begin with, so I doubt 'hide poster' would be an improvement.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 11 January 2018 19:42 (four months ago) Permalink
Why on earth dyou think we'd be targeting the dissenters
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 January 2018 20:05 (four months ago) Permalink
An "all bookmarks read" button (clicking it would remove all unread bookmarked threads from the top) would really come in handy. Really really.
Really.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:26 (three months ago) Permalink
Try typing 1b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b until they're all gone
― stet, Monday, 12 February 2018 16:55 (three months ago) Permalink
Oh, that'll do, ta
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:32 (three months ago) Permalink
ilxhack!
― niels, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:55 (three months ago) Permalink
https://i.imgur.com/bYaDBFB.gif
― gr8080, Monday, 12 February 2018 21:30 (three months ago) Permalink
thanks, loving your work - let's keep collaborating!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 February 2018 23:05 (three months ago) Permalink
maybe we could come up with a format of discussing discographies that's less labor intensive than listening threads and artist polls
talking about specific songs rule but ratings and completism both seem obsolete
― niels, Saturday, 12 May 2018 00:58 (one week ago) Permalink
S/Dclassic or dudTD: x vs y
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 12 May 2018 02:15 (one week ago) Permalink
POX
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 May 2018 02:22 (one week 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 (one week ago) Permalink
A wiki for poll results
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 May 2018 09:25 (one week ago) Permalink
max of five posts a day
― ogmor, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:23 (one week ago) Permalink
min of 20 words per post
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:27 (one week ago) Permalink
minimum 1500 karma points to post
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:30 (one week 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 (one week ago) Permalink
isn't this what people were doing on the Eagles/Elton/Joel threads?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:51 (one week 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 (one week ago) Permalink
auto-bookmark any thread you post to
― niels, Thursday, 17 May 2018 10:57 (six days ago) Permalink
Then 3 or 4 of you would have every single thread bookmarked.
― Jeff, Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:24 (six days ago) Permalink
haha
― calstars, Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:44 (six days 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 (six days 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 (six days ago) Permalink
they are good tho
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:06 (six days ago) Permalink
Beatles forum. Quarantine it
― Incline/decline (Ross), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:20 (six days 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 (six days 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 (six days ago) Permalink
just protecting yr blood pressure bb
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 18 May 2018 04:31 (five days ago) Permalink