I'll take a look, the age of the post shouldn't count I don't think
― stet, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
ok,
love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)
that image shows as a broken link to me. it's a convoluted fbcdn url, but i've seen the same thing with twitter images. the broken link isn't the problem though. when i right click and view image i can see the image fine, but then i can't get back to the original page - the back button is greyed out, the back on the context menu is greyed out. why would that be?
(firefox, mac)
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 09:00 (three years ago) link
(ah, ok, right click, then middle click on 'view image' opens it in a new tab, which is missing as an option in the menu in firefox)
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 09:02 (three years ago) link
thread of tim rogers content (do not read if you hate tim rogers)is coming up broken on zing as "There are some old or corrupted messages in this thread which Zing can't read"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
^ yeah i'm getting that too
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
should be fixed now, ta
― stet, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
gracias
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
neither of these are big deals but just since they crossed me mind:
can we embed youtube links that look like the urls you get when you click share, i.e. https://youtu.be/TuP86rfnR3A ?
and can we rewrite youtube embed urls to youtube-nocookie.com per https://dri.es/how-to-remove-youtube-tracking?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 29 June 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
vote against the first - it's very handy to be able to select and post Belgium links when you don't want to embed, rather than have to type open square bracket you are ell equals paste url close square bracket paste url again open square bracket backslash you are ell close square bracket
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 29 June 2020 07:06 (three years ago) link
you could leave out the https://
― neith moon (ledge), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:42 (three years ago) link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link
not as useful imo
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:59 (three years ago) link
what are Belgium links?
― stet, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
Think it's just because YouTube puts .be in the shortened url
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
oh ofc thanks
― stet, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
the men were here to get your Belgian links
― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
Only Built 4 Belgian Linx
― Dan I., Tuesday, 30 June 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
there it is
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
Something odd might be happening - at the moment, the 'second thoughts' thread has an answer from 37 minutes ago - but it doesn't show up on ILE's New Answer page at all, the most recent thread there is from 59 minutes ago. Is it cutting off the very top entry?
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 30 August 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
The post at the top of the most recent thread is by stet, but clearly it is too early to demand the democratisation of the 'pause' button that he has clearly developed.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 30 August 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
It’s possible someone dropped it from SNA, will investigate later.
― stet, Sunday, 30 August 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link
I had this happen sometime in the last week or two (I revived the 'beef beyond belief this week' thread). I assumed it was a mod decision and let it go.
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 30 August 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I'm not asserting my right to see that thread, I just wondered if it was intentional.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 30 August 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Just stepped away for lunch, came back and...are my eyes deceiving me, or has the typeface on the borad just been changed? The typeface on the info under the posts remains unchanged, so I'm inclined to think I'm not just suffering a postprandial aneurysm here.
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
i just did a server restart, it's possible it lost your preference setting somehow — try resetting in preferences.
― stet, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
Yes, looks like that was it. Haven't paid enough attention to the style settings to realize I could change the typeface! Thanks.
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
There's a thing I've noticed in Zing the last couple of days where if a post ends with quote tags, the date/timestamp gets cut off. I think quoted text is the common factor, but I can't swear to it. Here's the most recent post where I noticed it: Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 6 December 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
(referral tag redacted)
absolutely love to, several times a day, convert ILX into a monetizing clickfarm for a company actively tearing down democracy internationally and that materially contributed to organising an attempted armed coup against the United States six days ago
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, January 13, 2021 7:13 PM (forty-nine minutes ago)
in all seriousness, can we do something to strip referral tags, or would that break other stuff?
― Ăśberschadenfreude (sleeve), Thursday, 14 January 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
My understanding is that removing utm tags etc (which I'm not against attempting to do) only "hurts" the people who are buying the campaigns/using the analytics service. It doesn't really affect Facebook or Google, except by diminshing the value of their analytics tools by a micro-fraction. No?
― stet, Thursday, 14 January 2021 13:18 (three years ago) link
Possible to prevent sic from quoting a referral tag ?
― Ole Blueyes Solskjaer (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 January 2021 13:31 (three years ago) link
sic could also, like, chill out
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 January 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link
Lol sic knows its all love
But i was very pleased with 'kitpicking'
― Ole Blueyes Solskjaer (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 January 2021 13:46 (three years ago) link
We're always much happier when our "Direct" pageviews are higher and our Facebook numbers are lower. Means we feel we don't have to depend on FB so much.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
I should start adding a ?utm=ilxor to any URLs I post.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
lol come on, that is one thing we know will not happen
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
If the goal is to avoid driving traffic or the appearance of traffic to social networks that are responsible for bad things, I have no idea why he’s obsessed with utm links rather than the thousands of tweets we all post every day.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 January 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
I must say, Ive always wondered why so many ppl here are so reliant on tweets. A good half the time or more, the tweets are merely someone linkkng to an article on WashPo or NYT or whatever. Why not just post the damn article?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
Because you don't need tags for tweets
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
often the tweet summarizes the article better than i can be bothered to
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
mostly people just have nothing to say themselves anymore so they just post some shit they read somewhere elseIt’s best when posters provide no commentary of their own whatsoever- biggest problem with the bobbins threads on ILM is when people type into the text box instead of just pasting the YouTube link and running away
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
i post on a couple of slack/discords that have no-links channels to discourage drive-by link drops. they suck.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:29 (three years ago) link
those channels suck, i mean. pedants. i don't care about drive-by links personally.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:31 (three years ago) link
When particular posters come here to dump links and articles with nothing so much as a “why this is relevant” one-liner, and this is the majority of their posting activity, it makes me sad and annoyed. If sic’s schtick about fbclid= tags is just a nuisance, then my personal feelings about various posters’ bullshit posting styles, which I keep almost entirely to myself, should be even less of one. I’m barely on here anymore anyway, relative to the last couple of years.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 15 January 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
Thread, imo
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Friday, 15 January 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
I feel seen with my endless simpsons/futurama gifs lol
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 15 January 2021 00:42 (three years ago) link
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, January 14, 2021 2:15 PM (two hours ago
otm! The tweets also take up a lot of visual space, relative to a link post, and take longer to load. However, this is a minor annoyance of mine, like, I do not think this is a horrible thing that should be fixed. Also, I support sic's anti utm stance, though primarily because I think editing the tags out when posting the link to ilx shows consideration and intent and discipline. Like, if I have to edit the "s" and the mobile urls out of youtubes, then people can do the same with fb links.
― sarahell, Friday, 15 January 2021 00:51 (three years ago) link
Good news, sarahell! You don't have to do that to youtube links anymore. Just paste whatever, even the youtu.be links.
― DJI, Friday, 15 January 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
fuck washing a hat editing a link
― new variant (onimo), Friday, 15 January 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link
serious question Tomboto when is the last time you contributed anything to any discussion except parachuting in to shit on ilx or a specific ilxor?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 January 2021 12:39 (three years ago) link
The search link is available right at the top of the screen when the site is viewed on most .css stylesheets.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 January 2021 12:44 (three years ago) link