Ideas for ILX

yeah J i hated the switch to Georgia too, so now I’m using caek instead of old and it’s close enough

my ilx experience has improved markedly since i made wingdings my default font

Priority won't matter because virtually everything has both TNR and Georgia. I'm looking into a font preference though.

god please this font is ludicrously monumental

OK, that's available now on the style setting page. It's early days, but I think it at least does what you want -- choose old.css and set the dropdown to "Times New Roman".

great!

i think it must have tweaked before i changed it, somehow, because i was once again getting TNR/old.css after you changed it, but when i went to site preferences and left the dropdown on default, confirming that took me back to the default for old.css, where georgia comes first. (naturally i just re-set the dropdown.)

Comic Sans has unexpected effects on iPad, oops

https://i.ibb.co/K6yQWKY/EFCA7-F69-98-DD-466-E-A101-F2614-BF444-DD.png

Elegant!

Looks like the menu from the restaurant at a high end country club.

come ON Ideas for ILX

automatically strip referral tags in links

― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, March 7, 2019 12:07 PM (five months ago)

sic would be so bereft tho!!!!!!!!!!

Make the youtube link parser better - support the mobile and shortened link styles.

sic would be so bereft tho!!!!!!!!!!

asked and answered yr honour

Ideas for ILX

xp you're board history's greatest monster!

autoreplace all Trump tweet embeds with "I am the worst possible type of douchebag and I cordially invite you to punch me until I die"

lol

Oh for a more innocent time when people who rolled their damn eyes were worst possible type of douchebag.

This isn't a feature request, but it seems insane to me that there is no rolling thread about dating.

there is on 77, on ILE there's the OK Cupid thread that gets bumped occasionally and you could probably use for that purpose

that probably wouldn't be considered public info

do we have any, or a good/appropriate/agreed-upon, system for dealing with old-ass threads/posts where you said kinda dumb and offensive shit (or shit that could be taken out of context even) and are now, ten years later, vaguely anxious that someone could connect the dots and eventually link it back to you? like is it appropriate to ask mods to replace individual posts with "This post has been deleted by request of its poster" or sth? asking for a friend

i mean

....yknow and look i know but i mean

yknow?

xp - are you friends with the kickstarter bro who started the thread about how gross it was that fat people have sex?

what? no ew

i can't out the friend in question but to my knowledge he has only ever posted under a handle that rhymes with "Lock door; bus Eno"

NU ilx is built on the ashes, misfortunes and bad posting of old ilx. To remove the past is to remove the present imo.

i dig that, i just like, occasionally wake up at night in a cold sweat for fear that my academic career might someday be derailed because of some post in 2006 where I was trying out being a combative internet zingbro or w/e

We've all been there iirc

(idk you could maybe ask a mod nicely and it will probably be removed and no-one will ever find it missing anyway?)

do you list "Doctor Casino" on your cv?

Doctor Casino isn't your real name?! FP'd.

are you even a doctor?

I'm muckraking through the Doctor's old posts now and... There's not a lot of doctorly advice there, I have to say

What about whether or not you should hit or stay on 13?

i thought this was the friends w/babies thread for a second and got confused by pplains' post

Did you think it was a corporal punishment post or ... worse?

haha i do not list this on my CV but it's not that hard to make the connection, i was using this handle for a lot of things back in the mid-00s. sigh.

some drunk evening i'll pin down the 3 or 4 sad awful posts i have in mind and plead my case to a mod, thanks y'all!

nah Doc whatever posts you fear being found will be needles in the haystack of your REM posts over years

and that is how it should be, forever and ever amen

at least nobody is associating your government name with a r4ce w4r

Burritos for lunch, it is!

every time the 77 invite request thread gets bumped I wish there was a way to remove all my posts from the depression/anxiety thread. I’m ridiculous, obv.

I stand with the doc

an auto-sic function that strips

fbclid

It could be coded into the website, but as a user (who c&p's urls on here) you can do your part:

chrome-ext: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-fbclid/jlmdkcaiejonohbmkgickmkgbpceokmn
firefox-ext: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-fbclid-and-utm/

well I always delete that shit manually, I just want to make it easier for others

Can someone specify all the cruft that should be removed? Is there a handy list somewhere?

i am against this, i don't want sic to lose the sisyphean meaning of his existence, i must imagine him happy

how about a grimly content free conservative troll who couches all his posts in fluffy ambiguity and classic lit references to try and make himself sound cleverer than he is. and repeat for a decade.

i know this is going to seem awful at first but hear me out:

optional notifications for zing. possible options:

- hourly top 5 threads by number of new posts ("or some permutation of that" applies to all of these basically)
- daily top 5 new threads created within the last 24 hours
- when a bookmark that hasn't been posted on in at least a hour gets a new post (conditional there to prevent people's phones from buzzing their pants off when a thread gets a ton of posts all day)

others probably better ideas than that, but those were the first few that came to mind.

some of these might be useful stats/resources on https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/index.jsp too