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

gracias

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?

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

you could leave out the https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

not as useful imo

what are Belgium links?

Think it's just because YouTube puts .be in the shortened url

oh ofc thanks

the men were here to get your Belgian links

Only Built 4 Belgian Linx

there it is

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?

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.

It’s possible someone dropped it from SNA, will investigate later.

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.

Yeah, I'm not asserting my right to see that thread, I just wondered if it was intentional.

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.

i just did a server restart, it's possible it lost your preference setting somehow — try resetting in preferences.

Yes, looks like that was it. Haven't paid enough attention to the style settings to realize I could change the typeface! Thanks.

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

(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?

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?

Possible to prevent sic from quoting a referral tag ?

sic could also, like, chill out

Lol sic knows its all love

But i was very pleased with 'kitpicking'

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.

I should start adding a ?utm=ilxor to any URLs I post.

sic could also, like, chill out

lol come on, that is one thing we know will not happen

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.

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?

Because you don't need tags for tweets

often the tweet summarizes the article better than i can be bothered to

mostly people just have nothing to say themselves anymore so they just post some shit they read somewhere else

It’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

i post on a couple of slack/discords that have no-links channels to discourage drive-by link drops. they suck.

those channels suck, i mean. pedants. i don't care about drive-by links personally.

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.

Thread, imo

I feel seen with my endless simpsons/futurama gifs lol

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, 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.

Good news, sarahell! You don't have to do that to youtube links anymore. Just paste whatever, even the youtu.be links.

fuck washing a hat editing a 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?

The search link is available right at the top of the screen when the site is viewed on most .css stylesheets.

Valuable and cherished contributor to rolling 77 boss thread for starters

(bosses of ilx unite lol)

I don't have a problem personally it's just like goddamn if you have such contempt for the place and everyone who posts here, like you don't have to look at it

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?

if you have such contempt for the place and everyone who posts here

Which he doesn't, which the search function would tell you.

idk he has done horrific things in the sneaker thread