stet/keith question or whoever is in charge of code these days

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1) is it at all possible to make vimeo links embed like youtube does?

2) would it be possble to make youtube embeds be in 16:9 instead of 4:3?

youtube embeds are the raddest and i think its awesome they work so easy but these are just 2 suggestions to make them better

if its possible to do these 2 things w/o days and days of coding i think it would be cool!

thanks!

gr8080, Friday, 18 February 2011 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link

first

for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Friday, 18 February 2011 08:51 (thirteen years ago) link

two months pass...

hey is there a problem with suggest ban again?

sarahel, Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link

dear stet/keith, thank you for everything you do for us! <3

estela, Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm not stet, Keith or in charge of code, but I can say that SBs are registering as they always have.

the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Thursday, 21 April 2011 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link

is it supposed to go to a white screen after you click the button?

sarahel, Thursday, 21 April 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link

hmmm, no, it's supposed to go back to the thread with the post that you SB'd. Hopefully stet will see this tomorrow morning UK time.

the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Thursday, 21 April 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link

first

― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Friday, February 18, 2011 3:51 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lold at this

ban drake (the rapper) (max), Thursday, 21 April 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link

is it supposed to go to a white screen after you click the button?

― sarahel, Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:41 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

usually happens when you are banned from a subforum iirc, and no the SB doesn't register

dayo, Thursday, 21 April 2011 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link

Ah, ok, yes, you were banned from I Rate Everything a year ago for some reason.

the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Thursday, 21 April 2011 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link

PWND

gr8080, Thursday, 21 April 2011 07:03 (thirteen years ago) link

now why would jergins do a thing like that???

WiggyGrrl (buzza), Thursday, 21 April 2011 07:32 (thirteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

yo whatever update you guys just did about 10 minutes ago... when i click "bookmark" on a post it jumps me back to the top of the page now... anyway to change it back?

⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link

From looking at the logs, most ppl click "Bookmark" then choose another of their bookmarks to read. So the thinking here is that it jumps you back to your bookmarks to save you scrolling or w/e.

It's taking a bit of getting used to, I admit. Can we give it a couple of days?

stet, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link

yeah i was a bit thrown by that, but i can see getting used to it

fitzroy institution (electricsound), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

yo whatever update you guys just did about 10 minutes ago... when i click "bookmark" on a post it jumps me back to the top of the page now... anyway to change it back?

― ⚓ (gr8080), dinsdag 31 januari 2012 22:56 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha nooooooooooo I just came here to *praise* the mods for that!! I love it!

future debts collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link

Saves a helluvalot of pressing on page up/home to go to the next bookmarked thread!

future debts collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link

haha ok.

i was totally unaware until you changed it, but i guess my pattern is get to last post/post i want to stop on -> click bookmark -> read last post -> click permalink (so last post is now at top of page) -> pick from remaining bookmarks

so i guess you're saving me some clicks, i just need to re-train myself

⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link

From looking at the logs, most ppl click "Bookmark" then choose another of their bookmarks to read. So the thinking here is that it jumps you back to your bookmarks to save you scrolling or w/e.

From SNA, I open a bookmarked thread in a new tab, click 'Bookmark' in that thread, then open a new bookmarked thread from my SNA tab. So I do what the logs indicate, but not in the way it looks in the logs.

Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link

Ha, this is brilliant, and 2 hours ago would've saved me the trouble of looking up how to do Page Up/Home on a MacBook Pro (not before I accidentally managed to shut it down by pressing some combo of Apple key and what looked like it might be a Page Up button).

Thanks!

Les Tressle (useless chamber), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link

I don't like it, personally. But I do *tend* to read the last post before clicking the button, so I guess I can live with it if I have to. I usually click to SNA rather than other bookmarks.

emil.y, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link

so i guess you're saving me some clicks, i just need to re-train myself

― ⚓ (gr8080), dinsdag 31 januari 2012 23:04 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This goes for me too, my fingers on my laptop - both hands - are still going to shift(left) + pgUp/Home (right). I *want* to get used to this.

Ahh the simple joys in life... Stet <3

future debts collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link

I should point out that I don't care either way – my post was an explanation of what I do, not a complaint about the change.

Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link

yeah i think i'll like this as soon as i get used to it

call all destroyer, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link

enjoy the idea of stet pouring over the ilx logs for user behavior insights

call all destroyer, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link

how the hell did following this link from the Flag Post thread change my style sheet???

sleeve, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link

it logged you out, maybe?

stet, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link

its kinda jarring, tbqh a radical approach, i salute yr courage

lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link

sleeve are you logged into ilxor.com or www.ilxor.com?

dayo, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link

"Flag Post"? Wait I only just noticed this.

FPing someone for that.

ERIC CANONTA FOR PRESIDETN! (onimo), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 08:50 (twelve years ago) link

I hate this change :'( Can we maybe have the choice to use it or not?

Mordy, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

yeah not feeling it.

another thing: if i bookmark something and then select that same bookmark once it jumps to the top of the page (like say i walked away from my computer for a while), it will take me to the OLD bookmark from that page

mostly i just dont like jumping back to the top of the page in general

⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link

really enjoying this now tbh

flagsteban postez (electricsound), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link

we should all should give it a few days imho

lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link

it is p unusual and appy tho, just my pro opinion

lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link

it's not so bad that i'd quit ilx over it (i'd probably chew the tips off my fingers before i quit ilx) but i do find it deeply unpleasant and would prefer the option to turn it off

Mordy, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link

i really like the way bookmarking works now tbh

markers, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link

ditto

i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link

The new bookmarking thing works for me. Didn't even know I wanted it.

pplains, Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link

agree with mordy

tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link

Im kinda amazed how many ppl use bookmarks this religiously. Ive nevre even given them a thought.

thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:09 (twelve years ago) link

i get so bogged down with my unread bookmarks i rarely look at SNA :(

⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link

I tend to rely on my browser's turning a viste3d link pink/the "new posts" unfilled dot. So when the site gets rebooted and they all clear, Im completely lost haha.

thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link

i get so bogged down with my unread bookmarks i rarely look at SNA :(

One of a few reasons why I changed my name!

There was a while where pplains wasn't on 77 yet, and I'd log in as Pleasant Plains to check in. Fuck, those bookmarks stacked up fast.

pplains, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link

Check out the blue cursor on the side to give you an idea of how far up it goes.

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/392/screenshot20120201at820.png

pplains, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link

poll

tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link

yah after some p intense experiences w/stacked up bookmarks im careful abt unfollowing threads im not actively reading, only have 5 outstanding now

lag∞n, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link

need to go back and bookmark "an erotic thriller" again tho'.

pplains, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago) link

i have to clear bookmarks compulsively tbh

call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link

dont need to bookmark it... im living it

lag∞n, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago) link

hi stet, youtube embedding is great, but would be cool to teach the regex not to try to embed links to youtube channels (which don't work), e.g. this post got mangled. obviously this is not the end of the world.

p.s. does ilx use log4j y/n?

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 January 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link

we have a strong NIH ethos here, so thankfully not

stet, Monday, 10 January 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link

thanks for the channels nudge, will take a look

stet, Monday, 10 January 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link

Hi there, what's the best method of pasting an image on a thread these days?

Maresn3st, Monday, 17 January 2022 23:59 (two years ago) link

Still [ img ] tags. You have to put the address of an image file in between the tags, not a web page, and if you link to an image on a major social media platform, it won’t display for many people.

dark end of the st. maud (sic), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link

an integrated image thingie would be amazing but imgur works pretty well. as others have said, the ios “post to imgur” shortcut makes this a very slick process.

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 09:01 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

i would like to thank the ilx code cru for the hidden text feature without which the fun Semantle thread would not be possible

sarahell, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

last night it kept asking me to login and I've had 5 of so posts that didn't post, just returned a blank page. something seems wrong, but it also feels like it'd be impossible to debug.

koogs, Monday, 13 June 2022 07:10 (two years ago) link

happens to me too sometimes (maybe once a week?)

TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 13 June 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

stet/keith or whoever is in charge of code these days,

*third guy to get handed the mic at the Q&A*

hello, a comment and a question.

first of all, as always, thank you so much, and with every year that passes i appreciate more and more what a special place ilx is and how much of that is related the beautiful simplicity of how it works. i don't know anything about any of that but i feel the benefits of your work all the same. thank you!

the question: as you're probably already aware, chatgpt is starting to crawl the internet:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/openai-details-how-to-keep-chatgpt-from-gobbling-up-website-data/

Without announcement, OpenAI recently added details about its web crawler, GPTBot, to its online documentation site. GPTBot is the name of the user agent that the company uses to retrieve webpages to train the AI models behind ChatGPT, such as GPT-4. Earlier this week, some sites quickly announced their intention to block GPTBot's access to their content.

In the new documentation, OpenAI says that webpages crawled with GPTBot "may potentially be used to improve future models," and that allowing GPTBot to access your site "can help AI models become more accurate and improve their general capabilities and safety."

i was wondering if ilx will move to block GPTBot as well. for what it's worth, i register as a hard "please block GPTBot" vote

z_tbd, Saturday, 12 August 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link

...because god, it's going to be creepy if chatgpt users can really ask it to compose stuff in the voice of a particular poster

z_tbd, Saturday, 12 August 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link

well i already do that all the time so

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link

After I'd been posting to ilx for about 13 years my voice changed.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link

Won’t be long before there’s going to be some kind of Night of the Living Dead of Fake Tuomases, Fake James Redds, Fake Tracer Hands etc.

No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link

Night of the Living Redd

No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:30 (one year ago) link

fake luna

pplains, Saturday, 12 August 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link

Lol

No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 August 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link

Impersonate another Chatbot!

No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 August 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link

ILX is already in ChatGPT - there was a site which showed you which percentage of the training data you were, and we were high among the also-rans.

Block does seem like a good idea for all our vital future posts tho

stet, Sunday, 13 August 2023 10:52 (one year ago) link

excited to encounter the deepest of our lore out in the wild

mark s, Sunday, 13 August 2023 11:12 (one year ago) link

ILX had a number of prolific posters who contributed to its active community. Some of the notable and influential posters over the years included individuals like Sterling Clover, Andy K, Nick Sylvester, and Mark Sinker. These posters were known for their extensive contributions, insightful discussions, and sometimes controversial opinions, which helped shape the character of ILX as a unique online forum for music and various other topics. However, keep in mind that individual participation can change over time, and my information might not be up to date with the latest developments on ILX.

the new drip king (DJP), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link

no, that pretty much covers it up til now!

z_tbd, Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link

Your mileage may vary.

No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link

ChatGPT, tell me all you know about the chickenbear.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link

chatGPT, please read all my previous posts and suggest new posts i could make that would be an improvement

z_tbd, Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link

...but do it in the style of the chickenbear

z_tbd, Sunday, 13 August 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link

gaz coombes

Grandall Flange (wins), Sunday, 13 August 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link

Bosko Balaban

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 13 August 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link

Write about grocery groin to the tune of Ernie K Doe's "Mother in Law"

earosmith (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 August 2023 05:09 (one year ago) link

This isn't so much a question as it is an expression of puzzlement but...I just posted via Zing a short while ago and the DN displayed on my post is an older DN that is not the DN I'm currently using. Should that be happening? And might the fact of it happening have anything to do with the fact that my iPhone is old as shit (it's a 6)? I guess those last two actually were questions.

Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 00:52 (one year ago) link

It shouldn't be happening – there's a weird situation in the code where it can keep two copies of a user around. You end up with two different sets of bookmarks and sometimes two DNs etc. I've never been able to really track the cause of it down, it's (probably) not your fault tho

stet, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 10:51 (one year ago) link

two months pass...

I’ve just got my first iPhone and the Bookmark Post links JavaScript does not work and instead go to a form to submit instead. Is that expected?

Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link

download Zing Touch from the app store!

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link

Can’t view it in my theme though :D

Speaking of which I am seeing a load of rendering bugs on the iPhone I need to fix.

Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 15 October 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link

Is that expected?
Yes there's some unreliability with iOS Safari that means it falls back to the non-JS version. Although that was (jesus) 10 years ago now so I should check that's still the case

stet, Thursday, 19 October 2023 10:33 (eleven months ago) link

Feel free to send me updates to the stylesheet!

stet, Thursday, 19 October 2023 10:33 (eleven months ago) link

One day! Been meaning to do it for a couple of years for general bugs.

Any idea on the bookmark bug though?

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 19 October 2023 17:27 (eleven months ago) link

not a bug - deliberate behaviour: there's a non-Javascript flow, which mobile devices use because they were buggy back in the day. You can see it on desktop if you disable JS in site settings

stet, Thursday, 19 October 2023 17:56 (eleven months ago) link

It’s always worked on Android browsers though 🤷

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 19 October 2023 22:15 (eleven months ago) link

Yeah, I have a vague recollection of just stopping it doing the Javascript thing on mobile at all; however, that would've been just after the first iPhone launched, so when you say it's always worked on Android, well, it's kind of always not worked on Android, as when I wrote that bit of code, Android didn't exist, so it seems whatever mechanism I used to filter it out didn't work once Android appeared.

Keith, Thursday, 19 October 2023 22:31 (eleven months ago) link

FWIW, I was definitely using Android to read ilx every day for like two years before Android officially existed and it worked fine so thanks!

fajita seas, Friday, 20 October 2023 02:44 (eleven months ago) link

I’m happy to take a look and suggest code to get the experience on iPhone up to par :)

Chewshabadoo, Friday, 20 October 2023 07:21 (eleven months ago) link

We need an “ILX is better in the app” popup apparently they’re all the rage

stet, Friday, 20 October 2023 11:09 (eleven months ago) link

Ah yes, sorry, I had forgotten about the shareholder value :)

Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 22 October 2023 09:40 (eleven months ago) link

seven months pass...

would you consider embedding bsky.app links like twitter/x.com links?

arguably twitter embeds have made this site worse, but since we can't unring that bell it would be cool to be able to link to the non-nazi alternative

https://bsky.social/about/blog/post-embeds-guide

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 16:23 (four months ago) link

yes! have been meaning to see if this was possible for a while. Thanks!

stet, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 16:23 (four months ago) link

thanks!

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 16:29 (four months ago) link

two months pass...

I seem to have made the text very small when viewing on Chrome browser on laptop.

Any idea what I've done as it only affects ILX and I can't see anything obvious in Site Preferences?

Ta

groovypanda, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 15:18 (one month ago) link

try hitting Cmd-zero if you're on a Mac (Ctrl-0 on Windows)

default damager (lukas), Wednesday, 21 August 2024 15:47 (one month ago) link

have you just zoomed out? ctrl-0 should restore to the default

(in firefox there's a '65%' thing in the url bar to tell you you've zoomed out)

xp

koogs, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 15:49 (one month ago) link


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