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

search is still hanging sometimes for me - seems to be specific threads that are causing it, e.g. i searched for all threads started by iatee and the first 2 pages of results loaded fine but the 3rd will not

Post search seems to be working fine, thread search seems to be working not fine.

i regret to inform the mods that the search feature is lagging for me too, preventing me from finding the gucci mane thread. maybe this will be enough to finally inspire some action from the leadership but i'm not hopeful.

www.how2search.net:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ailxor.com+gucci+mane

That sounds like a lot of work. I'm already putting my energy toward generating content for this site.

I get banner ads on every thread while logged in on my work computer.

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I get banner ads while logged on on my computer and phone. They start playing video sometimes.

any idea why the board kept timing out on me this morning when i tried to start an ILM thread with the terms "ILM" and "77" in the title?

I think it was a login problem. There's a funny situation you can get into where you're logged in but the site thinks you aren't. Clues are ads showing up and 77 not showing up in Search.

i did see some ads!

it was weird tho, i tried for a good 20 mins or so, and when i dropped that extra "7" in there it took right away

First rule of 77 board is you don't talk about 77 board.

ohhhh I know what it is: when you start a new thread it does a search to see if there are possible duplicates; the search is buggered right now so it times out on some small searches.

Ten bucks says back in the heyday somebody asked for some rule to stop people from making threads about 77 on non-77 borads and because that was such a golden age one of somebody actually did it because STFU

Or yeah that xpost

that makes sense xxp - thanks!

why am I being asked to confirm my bookmarks?

Either you have "traditional" bookmarks setting turned on in prefs, or you're using a device that it thinks is a mobile.

I posted this question a while ago to another thread, but no one answered, maybe this would be a better place for it:

Why does ILX have two URLS, www.ilxor.com and ilxor.com, both of which require a separate login? I normally log in via www.ilxor.com, and often someone adds a link to some thread, but the link address has just ilxor.com, which means that if I open the link I have to login again, change site preferences, etc. What's the point of keeping these two separate, couldn't one of them just redirect to the other?

it's for when somebody in your life is on you about posting too much on ilxor.com, then you can say "no no, I'm much more disciplined now, I'm really posting a lot less to ilxor.com" and technically still be telling the truth because you were logging in & posting to a thread about some reissue whose name you'd already forgotten by the time you hit post on www.ilxor.com, instead of doing the same thing on ilxor.com. and vice versa. vital service imo

What's the point of keeping these two separate, couldn't one of them just redirect to the other?

If you remember, there used to be *four* URLS -- ilx.wh3rd.net and ilx.p3r.net all used to work as well. We did once make them all point to www.ilxor.com but people complained because they would log in to one site as one sock and another site as another.

Which is a terrible reason, really. Perhaps we should just canonicalise it. Would help with the SEO too probably.

if there was just some way to manually edit a url once it's in the address bar. probably we are years if not decades away from that technology.

if urls were converted to be relative to the root then the browser would fill in the right host.

stet/keith question or whoever is in charge of code these days <- www, no good for non-www people

stet/keith question or whoever is in charge of code these days <- non-www, no good for www people

/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=56&threadid=85944&action=showall&bookmarkedmessageid=6201546 <- relative, ok for both

(this, of course, won't work and i'll look like an idiot)

stet, i think if you set the domain of the cookie to be ".ilxor.com" it will be shared between www.ilxor and ilxor so you'll stay logged in and keep your prefs etc

that'll confuse sandbox.ilxor.com tho

so, uh, what's going on with the search function?

i accidentally broke it during the last upgrade; I'm working on the fix now, but it'll be a little while yet

oh ok, no problem

I am a little surprised that I am as sad that right now I can't, for example, look up the first time someone used the word "dickhole" on the site as I am.

google with the site: option

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Awww.ilxor.com+dickhole

is there more suitable term for the Japs Eye? - ilXor.com
www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40...
22 Nov 2001 - 38 posts - ‎23 authors
HOT SAUCE IN THE DICK HOLE. HOT SAUCE IN THE DICK HOLE. HOT SAUCE IN THE DICK HOLE. HOT SAUCE IN THE DICK HOLE.

what is the character limit for poll options plz

(also could it ever be removed sometime?)

so i'm able to google and find threads, but when i click on the links or when i click on links in a thread (like the one mookieproof posted for the forks pottery thread), i get this message:

Error Page
An error has occurred; please try again shortly.

Return to Front Page.

this happening for anyone else?

i've occasionally gotten that when trying to post something (usually with bbcode?)

figured god was telling me to delete my account

I c&p'd a post from one thread to another. In the new thread, the post didn't include my username, date, time, bookmark, and permalink. Instead, it seems to just be using that information from within the quoted text. Thought this was unusual enough to bring up.

Original post:

Least appealing song on "Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin"

c&p'd in another thread:

Are you a believer in mira-POLLs? Do you notice and recognize mira-POLLs?

Any update on https?

My office-mate (software guy) suggests using this stuff:
https://letsencrypt.org/

It was a bloody nightmare to install, fuck all that "hey SSL is super-easy why hasn't everyone done it yet?!?" EFF gubbins.

But it's here, and seems to be working. https://www.ilxor.com ahoy.

good job stet! thank you.

Wow! Thank you so much.

Thank you!

Has new.CSS changed in the last day? Site is rendering weirdly on my phone now, narrower and with wrapping of menu bar.

SSL-change related maybe?

If I "request desktop site" it goes back to how it was before.

Nope. Sna looks OK that way but actual threads are resized to fit the page width and all the text goes tiny.

Yeah this is weird to me!

(Android, Firefox 50.1.0)

You know there's a special ILX app for Android? Search for 'Flagging' in the Play Store.

Yes, weird formatting happening for me to using chrome on Android. Request desktop site seems to help, but haven't needed that previously.

Weird in an unusable way or just a "this is different" way?

It has changed: I've set a viewport for mobile which stops browsers trying to fit the entire page into view (and making it tiny as a result). This was giving us problems with search, as Google was penalising it for being mobile-unfriendly and not showing ILX results on mobile.

large left margin and no right margin. not unusable but not acceptable either

Yes, left margin is too big and the bookmarks div uses only the central 40% of the page.

(Screenshot on flickr)