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
could we make ⌘/Ctrl + Enter a shortcut to "submit post" like on gmail/twitter etc?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
Tab enter should do it but yes I’ll look at it
― stet, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
thank you. it's very important that i am able to post my terrible opinions faster and more emphatically.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
wait ....
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
OMG. now i'm posting with power
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
(i mean, just realizing i could do tab then enter. i love it, wish i would have realized a long time ago!)
testing
― stet, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
ya so cmd+enter works now
Cool. Next issue: View Previous Page doesn't seem to work too well in MacZing for me. Often, like just now, I get a Turn Back You Poxy Fule! message.
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
huh, that's bad. next time it happens can you post here please? that will let me find the timestamp in the error logs
― stet, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
happened just now
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
nothing helpful in the logs, will take a deeper look when I get a moment
― stet, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
okay, no worries, no hurries, thanks
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
blam
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
thank you
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
So we've got the expired Let's Encrypt certification here too.
*sniff* Goodbye, ILX. Signed, my 2009 ipad.
― pplains, Sunday, 3 October 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link
Do you use that a lot? I can turn on an http-only domain to make it work again
― stet, Sunday, 3 October 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
I wouldn't say I use it "a lot." Usually around bedtime or when I want to reset a bookmark that a killfile has made the last post on.
Thank you! But don't turn on anything just for me.
― pplains, Sunday, 3 October 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
Is the search function borked? I can't find anything
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 30 October 2021 09:59 (two years ago) link
Seems OK to me. What are you searching for?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 30 October 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link
I'm search for thread titles in the user id section, is what I'm doing. Never mind.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 30 October 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link
finally ilx needs an AI
― What it's like. Havana Syndrome. What it's like. Havana Syndrom (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 6 November 2021 03:52 (two years ago) link
has the thread title font changed? looks a bit odd on my phone.
oh, i did 'upgrade' to Android 12 this morning, maybe it's a side effect of that, somehow
― koogs, Saturday, 6 November 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
(using mobile.css)
― koogs, Saturday, 6 November 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
(looks ok in Chrome)
― koogs, Saturday, 6 November 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
I'm using mobile.css and I see no change of any kind.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 6 November 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
screenshots...
firefox:http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/Screenshot_firefox.jpg
but i swear it used to look more like chrome still does:http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/Screenshot_chrome.jpg
seeing those both together it looks like a font weight thing, maybe a letter spacing thing. the firefox titles do look slighter than they used to. it's perhaps a bit more noticeable when the title is short.
― koogs, Sunday, 7 November 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
(but no, it's not an ilx problem)
― koogs, Sunday, 7 November 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
the hide text thingy is grebt but seems to be thwarted by line breaks -- could its effects be made to continue (like other such tags) until it reaches a /hiddentext ?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 December 2021 01:05 (two years ago) link
that would mean it would have to start in one div and end in another, which is hard. ie
div first paragraph with some h hidden text /div
div second paragraph, still hidden /h visible again /div
(the divs might need p tags but same thing)
― koogs, Saturday, 4 December 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link
okay, no worries -- thanks!
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 December 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
You can fake paragraphs..By having a minor piece of punctuation on the "break" lines.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 4 December 2021 03:49 (two years ago) link
Just tested this on HTML Playground: it seems to work even with a space as your "minor piece of punctuation" on the line between the faked paras.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 5 December 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
do tweet embeds not work anymore? just wondering if it's my browser/adblocker. they appear as blockquotes but don't load as embeds, for me.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
fwiw i have a pretty aggressive privacy/adblock setup that causes tweets to behave like that for me
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
I disable javascript (using noscript in firefox for example) and that prevents the twitter embeds.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 16 December 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
your adblocker might have an option to filter out social or "share" stuff. that usually breaks embedded tweets.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 December 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
(i.e. try disabling that option)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 December 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link