Ideas for ILX

Thats a great idea

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honestly if bookmarks had been organized/the delete option had been available / this "bump all bookmarks" option had been available, i would never have changed my username

Or maybe just a little bump button next to each bookmark?

If a bookmarked thread is at the top of my screen for a long time and I keep putting off getting caught up, I take that as a sign to remove bookmark.

i like to think of it more as a placeholder, almost like a "save point" for reading, where you can resume where you left off

ohhhhh I had thought at first that this idea would mean you would automatically post "bump" on all yr bookmarked threads.

well if we did that it should post "Did we ever get this sorted?", of course.

It could be cool as a preference option in Zing to have bookmarks auto-update to the latest post, so you don’t have to tap to reset when you’ve caught up (like slack)

Short url support for youtubes would be a gamechanger*

* small but welcome improvement

Would it be possible to add a step to posting whenever youtube.com or youtu.be is detected in the post? "You appear to be posting a video -- link or embed?"

that would be awesome.
embed for vimeo would also be welcome.

Short url support for youtubes would be a gamechanger*

no, it's still good to have a very quick option for linking without embedding

Why is link-vs-embed better as a choice the poster makes for everyone vs a reader option?

ah, um, well you see, it's because I totally didn't think my way around that particular corner

I just want to be able to paste whatever stupid YouTube format and get an embed.

in some ways, i think we all want that

embed should be a reward you get for being able to think for 2.3 seconds about what you post, not a default

also auto-embeds really shit up poll discussion threads, which I acknowledge many posters would see as a positive feature

But again you can turn them off if you don’t want to see them, or am I missing something? Genuine q - like, do you think that other people seeing things embedded you don’t want them to is changing the nature of answers or something?

I think we should make joe biden a mod

Would certainly help cut down on the malarkey

ILX System should be deployed to count votes in Pennsylvania

But again you can turn them off if you don’t want to see them, or am I missing something? Genuine q - like, do you think that other people seeing things embedded you don’t want them to is changing the nature of answers or something?

I can see people wanting images embedded , but not videos. Links to videos are also useful bcz you can open the video in another window and half-watch while continuing to read the thread.

Right now I think it's super-useful for the poster to be able to embed if they mean to, or link via Belgium if they mean to do that - it seems to me to be removing functionality to embed Belgian tubes.

Also switching to all-embed is coddling ppl who refuse to read their own posts before clicking "submit," and I'm in favour of gulags for people who don't encouraging people to consider what they C&P.

please don't distract stet from my much more important idea with this youtube business

my bookmarks, they're dying

bump

If I wish to post a youtube video just for a cheap referential joke, embedding is better than the link, because someone can look at the embed and be amused by the reference without having to click and go listen to find out what has been linked.

Alternatively, that person can be like, "oh yeah I had forgotten how awesome that song is" and go to it.

However, as it stands now, if you mess up the syntaxes or just paste a mobile link, then no one knows what referential jest is being made unless they follow the link, which is sometimes just too much trouble.

Accordingly I humbly ask that the code accommodate multiple modes of pasting a YT link, because it's tough to remember whether it's watch question mark vee equals or equals vee watch question mark and hand-code appropriately.

That's my case and I am sticking to it.

Ye might be Mad, Puffin, but ye are also otm

people trying to make referential jokes should simply take screenshots of the youtube video and embed those

otm

https://i.imgur.com/gX1CiK6.jpg

Silby, that's like five more steps. Are you suggesting I take a screenshot, download it locally, upload it to a site like imgur (or whatever), copy the url, then put it in my ilx post as an img tag?

By that point the conversation has moved on and it isn't funny or topical anymore.

In contrast, everything on YouTube is already online and can be linked to directly.

You could write a command line tool that does all those steps for you

also you were pwned by an xpost

but the also mooted-by-stet inbuilt image hosting would streamline this

Fuck all y'all

https://bi.im-g.pl/im/4/8762/z8762534Q,Rick-Astley.jpg

And I say that with all the love in the world

I just clicked the play button on that still
https://media1.tenor.com/images/2d3038f6270517912a838b6ea2516b77/tenor.gif

Here is a Malarkey Post

https://images.fandango.com/ImageRenderer/300/0/redesign/static/img/default_poster.png/0/images/masterrepository/performer%20images/p57429/MarkiePost-2018.jpg

Just popping in to say any of the above that will spare me the humiliation of 11, 12 13 consective feailed embed-attempts

I never used to have this problem! Did YT re-jig something in recent years?

You could write a command line tool that does all those steps for you

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, November 4, 2020 7:42 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

YMP otmfm.

I never used to have this problem! Did YT re-jig something in recent years?

"Yeah they seem to sprinkle the "feature=YouTu.be" string in all over the URL depending on how you share it."

you could just delete this tbf

― MOAR PETE (sic), Thursday, February 6, 2020 1:44 PM (eight months ago)

Haha I was like "is Karl Malone turning into sic or something with this shit?" and then realized it was you. :)

#oneposter

#oneworldthread

> it's tough to remember whether it's watch question mark vee equals or equals vee watch question mark and hand-code appropriately.

This could be eased by adding an example to the 'formatting help' text.

idea: ilx clippy, a helper on every single screen who pops up and lets you now how they can help

Add a post!

it looks like you're trying to post a truncated youtube link, is that correct?