Ideas for ILX

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

people like to complain about losing posters, less posting activity, etc, but if we were just paid a living wage i think those trends would immediately reverse

It should be the other way round. No payment for posts. Pay people to read.

no, i want to get paid

paid for posting

i've heard it from more than one person now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7t8eoA_1jQ

Crypto-ilx would result in an interesting ethical dilemma wherein ppl want to write long threads about the carbon footprint of ILX posts and debate the ethics of posting under the new system, but the debate itself uses vast amounts of energy.

personally, every single post i make it fraught with ethical tension!

but that's because i have to hustle to get by in this information economy

would it be possible to extend the colors specified on "Customize Site New Answers" to the individual board pages as well?

I was visiting the thread https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=70606 which is filled with dead links to graphic images on defunct sites or dead pages and wondered if ilx could perform periodic scans for dead links and edit them to replace the link with the words {dead link}. Maybe time the scans to coincide with the down time between when the Aus/NZ crowd goes to bed and the western Europe/UK/Irish Republic crowd is rolling out of bed.

Stet, would it be possible to change the FP system so that any FP lodged by Poster X against Poster Y automatically replaces any previous FP by Poster X against Poster Y? That way old FPs wouldn't have to be cleared out and a correct, current total could always be found. Not sure if that ever got suggested before.

please please please

Damn you guys are out for blood

Why always picking on Poster Y, Poster X is no saint!

I think it's time we freshened up the ILX house style manual.

Ban everyone. IP bans, hard to get around. Wait for several decades for the land to be repopulated by a new generation.

ILX will become wehole.tv

People who use salt of the earth as a compliment never seem to consider what salt does to earth

makes it slightly more edible

ip bans are insanely not hard to get around

Ok supergenius if you say so

and here you always struck me as a guy familiar with coffee shop wifi!

It would be neat if after a poll ended there was a little asterisk or something next to the option that you voted for, in case you can't remember.

It would also be neat if you could change your vote before the poll ended - sometimes the conversation changes my mind!

Yes, either that or a big obelisk.

If that doesn't work we could try a medium-sized basilisk.

Personally I am partial to Asterix le Gaulois.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRA1KxYlKKYB-eFErAO4dDuPqQQTjcCpdF41w&usqp=CAU

Surely this has been suggested before, but a button that updates all your bookmarks to the current moment would be so wonderful. I have not really looked at ilx since September, and while I don't want to lose all my bookmarks, clicking through all of them just to scroll down and click bookmark on the last post is a serious chore.