If I search for posts containing the term “blue monday” (with quotes)
your browser (phone?) is helpfully converting your straight quotes (") to "smart quotes". suspect the search software wants straight ones.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 8 September 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
can test by copying this text into the search box rather than typing it yourself:
"blue monday"
on an iphone i think you can force a normal quote mark by holding down the key? these are the wages of ""“aesthetics”""
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 8 September 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
OMG YOU ARE A GENIIOUS!!!!!!!
Fuck an iPhone and its lameass smart-quotes.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 8 September 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
This works on zing search fyi
― stet, Friday, 9 September 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
I’d like a new borad called Bad Poll Prison where I can make bad polls without feeling like I’m clogging up a real borad
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 05:30 (one year ago) link
nothing is real, everything is polled
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
xp just choose a moribund sub-board and use it for that purpose --
― sarahell, Monday, 12 December 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
"For You"
― koogs, Thursday, 26 January 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
lol
― ledge, Thursday, 26 January 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
isn't that what Blog View is
― rob, Thursday, 26 January 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
Blog View has been borked for years, I'd love to have it back and probably said so upthread.
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Thursday, 26 January 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
blog view felt like “jacking in” to ilx
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Thursday, 26 January 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
ILX marketplace thread? Buy and sell your stuff?
― calstars, Friday, 27 January 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=1425799748
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 27 January 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
Is there a way to disable the "s" keyboard shortcut that redirects to Site New Answers?
― Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 19 February 2023 01:44 (one year ago) link
i jut found a way to diable the "" key entirely, not ure if that help
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 February 2023 06:06 (one year ago) link
xp the whaaaaaa?
holy shit I did not know about this one
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Sunday, 19 February 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
I used to and then forgot until now
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Sunday, 19 February 2023 16:17 (one year ago) link
Never knew about it either. It's web only I assume, not the apps.
― after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
lol forks
Is there a keyboard shortcut for 'remove bookmark from this thread'? Actually, is there a place to check all keyboard shortcuts? Is there a keyboard shortcut for 'find all keyboard shortcuts'?
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 19 February 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
Does anyone have an aspirin?
I had no idea there were shortcuts at all!
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link
i have been using 'b' for a while (to bookmark a thread or update a bookmark to the latest post on a thread), but 's' is new to me! i do think using the two in tandem could lead to subconscious drives to suggest ban people, but sometimes you have to take risks for shortcut conveniences
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
s b and numerals are great shortcuts
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 March 2023 07:07 (one year ago) link
Is there a list anywhere, my mind is totally blown there is also a bookmark one too.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 3 March 2023 08:29 (one year ago) link
try it. type random letters, see what it does!
― koogs, Friday, 3 March 2023 09:04 (one year ago) link
numbers = not sureb = bookmarkp = add post (moves focus to the text box)s = site new answers
― koogs, Friday, 3 March 2023 09:39 (one year ago) link
numbers = goto bookmark n
― koogs, Friday, 3 March 2023 09:40 (one year ago) link
Leviticus = create poll
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 March 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
non-joking request to ban Twitter / X embeds. just have it be a url
― budo jeru, Monday, 31 July 2023 20:41 (eight months ago) link
pretty sure you can shut that off in preferences
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 31 July 2023 20:46 (eight months ago) link
it's all or nothing, that shuts off images as well
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 31 July 2023 20:47 (eight months ago) link
"Show Images (and other embedded media, like videos and Tweets)"
it's the sacrifice you make i guess
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 31 July 2023 20:52 (eight months ago) link
It would be cool if that preference could be separated.
― beard papa, Monday, 31 July 2023 21:49 (eight months ago) link
actually you should try it, i made that choice awhile back and now it’s nice, unlike the rest of the internet i get to read a conversation without letting dumb reaction memes drive my understanding of it
― the late great, Monday, 31 July 2023 23:38 (eight months ago) link
people post reaction memes here?
― budo jeru, Monday, 31 July 2023 23:41 (eight months ago) link
I opted for images, videos & tweets to load as links years ago. I can easily just load the exact item I want to view without constantly loading/reloading a couple dozen images, gifs, etc. that were part of a conversation from days, months or years earlier. Just seems like a cleaner solution overall.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 31 July 2023 23:55 (eight months ago) link
cleanliness while maintaining density of useful info is imo the one virtue this place has in spades that entirerest of internet really does not (wikipedia may be only real exception that is not some real specific niche thing)
― the late great, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 00:39 (eight months ago) link
#onethread
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 01:23 (eight months ago) link
hilarious inside jokes, you forgot to mention
yes much richer and better than any “he’s not wrong you know” (you’re not!)
― the late great, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 01:24 (eight months ago) link
sorry everyone but
you might say we excel at it
― the late great, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 01:26 (eight months ago) link
― budo jeru, Monday, July 31, 2023 3:41 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, July 31, 2023 3:46 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, July 31, 2023 3:47 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
hi, can we please talk about having a twitter-specific toggle?
― budo jeru, Monday, 18 September 2023 15:33 (seven months ago) link
Yeah while you’re at it if zing had the option to hide certain threads that would be great
― ydkb (gyac), Monday, 18 September 2023 16:36 (seven months ago) link
xp would be good if people could c&p the text of the tweet if it's worth reading, Twitter is so shite now I don't want to go and open it up
― kinder, Monday, 18 September 2023 20:30 (seven months ago) link
Yeah, kind of surprised it's still the only embedded social network here, and that so many are still reading and linking from it. I would hit the embeds if it were an option.
― beard papa, Monday, 18 September 2023 21:02 (seven months ago) link
the ilx search function seems to exclude some list of certain common words. I've had this realization a number of times, but for a concrete example, I just went to search for threads about the band Was (Not Was) and received no results. But when I did a site-specific search on google - "Was (Not Was)" site:ilxor.com - there were a few threads. Is there anyway to circumvent this problem and just search for the exact search string that I enter?
― peace, man, Thursday, 28 September 2023 14:07 (six months ago) link
you can put quotes in the ilx search box but make sure your computer is using real quotes and not “smart quotes” that break it
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 28 September 2023 14:09 (six months ago) link