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?
― Überschadenfreude (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
Valuable and cherished contributor to rolling 77 boss thread for starters
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Friday, 15 January 2021 12:54 (three years ago) link
(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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 January 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Friday, 15 January 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
if you have such contempt for the place and everyone who posts here
Which he doesn't, which the search function would tell you.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 January 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link
idk he has done horrific things in the sneaker thread
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
i have never understood how accurate the "most viewed threads" info is. When it says 7189 reads in the past 5 minutes, that means 5000+ people are currently viewing the thread? It just doesn't seem possible we have that many lurkers at any given time.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 January 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
Would a lot of those not be search engines or something?
― groovypanda, Monday, 25 January 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
that makes sense. I guess i'm wondering if there's a formula of some kind i'm missing.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 January 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
Looking at the code, I think the "5 minutes" bit is wrong - I suspect this is an hourly figure. (The 5 minute trigger doesn't clear the read counts). Needs a bit of attention though to be sure - eg it's clearly not counting the referrers from the site. Will dig into it when I get a mo.
― stet, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
just posting here to say that the issues I've had for years with my bookmarks not syncing across devices and apps no longer seems to be a problem. Not sure if that is due to changes with ILX or what, but it's a big relief for me.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 28 January 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
Why can't I paste this thread URL into ILX? I get "an error has occurred, turn back you poxy fule". Just like old times!
(I link-proofed the URL)
hxxps://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=55&threadid=102012
― sleeve, Sunday, 30 May 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
"$900 Grandmothers aka Out Of Print Book Price Sticker Shock: Post Yr Links Here"
― sleeve, Sunday, 30 May 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
wtf, I meant to post James Redd's $900 books thread but it won't let me
― sleeve, Sunday, May 30, 2021 8:24 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Out Of Print Book Price Sticker Shock
― visiting, Sunday, May 30, 2021 8:29 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
weird, the title changed. thanks.
― sleeve, Sunday, May 30, 2021 8:34 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
i had the same problem... something about the dollar sign maybe which stopped me from posting so I took it out.
― visiting, Sunday, May 30, 2021 8:35 AM (twenty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
― sleeve, Sunday, 30 May 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
I think this has to do with the way that thread title changes don't retroactively fix previous bookmarks, so I always get the old thread title?
― sleeve, Sunday, 30 May 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
i don't think the url was the problem... i'm guessing that the dollar sign or the colon in the thread title was breaking it. it worked when i posted the url with a different title.
― visiting, Sunday, 30 May 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
dollar sign has special meaning in regexp substitutions, i think the literal dollar sign, followed by a number, confuses things when it's replacing links
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/substitutions-in-regular-expressions
― koogs, Sunday, 30 May 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
dollar signs fuck up other bits of ilx code too
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 30 May 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link