Ideas for ILX

but i'm finally about to watch the 6th sense and I don't want that ending spoiled for me!!

Personal "pin bookmarked thread" option. Sometimes I want to keep a thread easily accessible even without new posts, and find myself bookmarking the second-to-last post in a thread to keep it in view -- in which case it clutters up the regular updated-bookmarks list and doesn't show whether there are actual new posts. My pinned threads could be e.g. in a separate list above the regular updated-bookmarks list, and ideally also have a marker for whether it has new posts.

but i'm finally about to watch the 6th sense and I don't want that ending spoiled for me!!

― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, March 1, 2021 3:18 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it turns out at the end you find out that this movie sucks

Bruce Willis gave Dan Aykroyd the blowjob all along

#onethread

Rosebud was Luke's father

this joke isn't funny anymore

you'll find out that it was Bruce Willis all along

oh shit did i fuck that up?

miso horny

Put "Remove Bookmark From This Thread" at the top of the page so I don't need to load the whole monthly politics page.

idea 4 u: never bookmark a politics thread

Mods, help me stop punching myself in the face

i would like to volunteer to help out with a new FAQ -- I enjoy welcoming newcomers and have a mind for inclusion that i would be happy to apply to the ilx concept. i also have a lot of time on my hands at the moment and would like some practice writing FAQs, which i believe there should be more of in the world.

webmail works but lots of you know how to reach me. m bison otm about never bookmarking politics thread!!

I would like to have the ability to 'follow' certain posters whose posts I especially enjoy so that I do not miss out when they post to theads I am otherwise disinclined to read.

Nothing that makes ilx more like social media, please.

emoji react buttons plz

I want a button that takes $5 away from another ILXor. but after you click the button, for a random hour any time during the next week, someone can click the button on you and if you don't hit the "block" button, they get $10 from you.

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how stet ends up in a lawsuit alleging over $45,000 of owed payments to various ilxors

Deflatormouse, you can search the boards for posts or threads written by a given poster, sorted chronologically, if that helps.

Thx

Xpost to pbkr- i had that same thought but i think social media algorithms make you sift through a lot of stuff to find what you're looking for? Or at least they used to, i haven't touched social media in years. I find ilx to be the same way pretty much, so in that sense what i proposed would make it less like social media.

Sorry, no likes, no follows, only otms.

PBKR otm

That should be the ILX slogan.

Learn it. Know it. Live it.

hey i got a message from stet about helping to edit the FAQ but i have a couple of questions -- so i will ask them here
* can i make comments on the doc?
* if not, how should i collect my comments?

sorry i don't know who to email specifically about this so i am putting it here.

(i think it's really cool you're offering to help withe the FAQ, LL! I am a mess right now but it makes me feel good that it's in good hands :))

Sorry LL, I was meant to deal with this but I had loads of energy for it at first and then completely tapered off and now I can't even think about it for any longer than a second at a time. But while I was reworking it I just made comments as I went in brackets/italics, so feel free to do similar yourself on the doc.

Hey LL - yes that doc is purely a working doc so fire in as you like, or use the gdocs comment feature if you prefer

ok cool thanks! i will probably get to it sometime tomorrow. my two tasks for tomorrow are this and writing my first essay for public eyes in ages and i am excited about both. Feeling laid off and fired up lol

hey stet fyi that dollar signs appear to break url tags: Spotify - anyone heard of it?

(if a mod happens to see this and want to tidy that link and delete my followup, please do - I really didn't want to embed that guy)

got it, ta!

autoreplace script that turns all of xzanfar's posts into links that include the video title

let me amend that: for all video links on ILM except xzanfar’s
I like the idea of having a poster whose legacy will consist of one big gaping black hole

we got a few of those already hey-yo

fixing "View Previous Page" would be good but I think it's been broken for years so maybe not gonna happen

what bit is broken? I know there's a case where it doesn't work, but can't remember what it is — if I click the one here it works OK

has been working for me. used it yesterday.

I usually use it on really long threads, where I want to read the messages immediately preceding the Show 1000000 messages, and you click the permalink link on the first message after Show X messages, then click View Previous Page, and it shows the previous messages.

This often doesn't work - the thread I was trying to do this on yesterday was the covid thread: Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

just tried it now and it's still not working - you just get the same messages as if you opened the thread from SNA

it does work on this thread though

If it helps for debugging/diagnostics, on that covid thread as of now, the message immediately after the "Click here to load all messages" has this url on the "link" link:

Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

if I click that link, the View Previous Page URL is:

Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

clicking that just takes me to the thread as if I'd just opened it from ILE/SNA. Shows the first 50/last 50 message (or whatever the number is) with Click Here to load all messages in the middle

If I do the same thing on this thread, which works, the View Previous Page URL is:

Ideas for ILX

So it looks like your bug is the missing bookmarkedmessageid URL parameter.

Thanks CP - I think that is now fixed — you should be able to View Previous Page continuously right the way back to the first post in a thread.

There's a chance that means on poll threads you'll get back to the start and still won't see the poll options, i'll need to confirm that but it seems like an edge case right now.

Idea for ILX: In search results, show the number of posts in a thread and when it was last posted to. Would make it easier to revive the most active thread for people or topics with many threads.

^^

number of posts, especially

Good idea, also "sort by recently posted to" isn't the same as "sort by most recently created" so would be good to have those as two different options.

Yes!

stet, thanks for the work on Previous Page!

thanks to Colonel Poo for figuring it out! I've stumbled over it myself in the past and always failed to later figure out what caused it so it could be fixed. Been about for years!

That search thing is a great idea but also pretty hard to do, sorry

i think each post should be tokenized and traded with cryptocurrency. we've all been posting without profit for too long, and this would allow us to establish clear provenance for our posts while innovating in the downstream-contract asset transfer sector. for example, a simple metadata layer could guarantee that i get a 10% cut from future sales of this post, no matter how many time this asset is traded.

it's either that or we all get paid $.000000004 per post view. problem with that is that it's not inherently profitable and innovative like crypto-ilx, so we'd have to secure outside funding if we're all going to get paid a living wage for posting (and we SHOULD be paid a living wage for posting). luckily i know these cryptodudes who recently got rich so