Ideas for ILX

I see. What about for mods that don't have that many privileges in the first place, like me and other subboard mods? Sorry to go on about this, but 1p3 is 90% picture threads!

Also, I think ILX is great as is and I would just say: continue keeping it simple and plain.

Roxy, yes there's less danger there, but you can still ban people, delete posts, delete threads, unban people etc.

I mean if it helps, happy to unmod you.

continue keeping it simple and plain

^^^ seconded - I love love love the way that ILX threads load up super quick, compared to other boards where you're sitting around waiting for two minutes.

Sheesh, just asking!

avatars

No avatars! Ever!

Nick, that's OK: suggest ban is the best feature I've ever come up with - I think there are any number of ways you could subtly modify it and I have changed it recently it to drop older SBs from people, but I doubt we'll ever conclude on the 'right' way for it to work, and the people who don't like it, I doubt will ever be convinced, so would be good if this thread didn't become about that; I've little doubt it'll be discussed probably at length elsewhere.

Yeah, I wasn't really thinking of avatars!

no avatars - please, I think that's the start of a slippery slope towards phpBB style bloat

i echo Roxy's simple and plain praise. love that.

i would also love to see a magenta screen with white font option

I love love love the way that ILX threads load up super quick

Yes I like this - someone described other message boards as having a kind of underwater feeling... That said, ILX isn't fast because it's minimal on the screen; it's because of the server software - could afford to put quite a lot more on the screen without it becoming slow. Not that this is necessarily a good idea.

Surm, appreciate CSS might not be your thing, but if it is, then you can make a stylesheet to look like that and I'll stick it up... There are some instructions (a little out of date, but basically OK) here: http://www.ilxor.com/ilxstyles.html

ignore lists

http://www.b3tards.com/u/c2d08cf4e23cfbd9a0c0/duck_hunt_dog.gif

i've got no complaints except olive is still showing up blue on SNA colors!

maybe i can get kenan to make me one... i'm using his gray one now and it's real nice

Oh bugger! That's easy enough to fix, Harbl.

Bug, yes I was thinking that would be something I should do.

ilx is the hottness of message boards. i do think surm's suggestion should be mandatory not optional, though. :)

Harbl, fixed the colour thing - it'll be Olive when I next upload the software.

=) <3 xp

More poll forms would be fun. One that allowed you to rank the options from first to last, s

I like the sound of that.

I love the "view previous page" option, by the way.

No avatars?

http://i25.tinypic.com/4rqkvc.jpg

thanks :) xp

Some kind of two minute "Edit my last message" option in case of tpyos you only notice after you hit submit.

On the other hand, ILX is ILX because there are no Avatars or Edit after submit options. Read what you tpye before you submit and you won't post typos.

XML access to bookmarks that have new answers is top o my wishlist :)

ILX threads can get so fast that it's more like chat than forum, so even 2mins can be way too long.

Could there be a count of the number of users online displayed at the top somewhere? Just a simple count of logged-in users (but not names, cos that would be crepey). Wouldn't be at all useful, just mildly intersting.

ILX threads can get so fast that it's more like chat than forum, so even 2mins can be way too long.

― stet, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:00 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is the reason I Love ILX over all others. It's both at the same time. And needs to stay that way.

"I have changed it recently it to drop older SBs from people"

this sounds like a really good idea! can i ask what the cutoff point is?

I think the general feeling is: nothing drastic, please, only small functional adjustments. Right?

People who haven't posted for six months should have all the bans they've suggested returned to them in a box.

I would like a way to see how many SB's you have. (Now, I have no idea how annoying I am.)

Yeah, I'm not a fan of SB in general, but it seems like it would do more good if a person saw that they were getting close to the mark.

some sort of something to fix the webmailing reply issue

Could there be a count of the number of users online displayed at the top somewhere? Just a simple count of logged-in users (but not names, cos that would be crepey). Wouldn't be at all useful, just mildly interesting.

Yeah that's a nice idea, maybe wouldn't be too difficult to do either.

Stan - I've never been convinced by people's anti-SB argument around the "for the lols" thing, because no-one can see it. This is why I didn't make it available, so that it couldn't be used in this way. That said, I've been considering maybe warning people when they get to 40 or something. This would only affect a few people. Also - I wouldn't worry about your own position re: SBs.

S1ocki, I don't know what the issue is. I was asked recently to remove 'reply to' from webmail, because people were being hassled off board.

Ok, thanks, that makes sense (why SBs aren't public). xpost

S1ocki, I don't know what the issue is. I was asked recently to remove 'reply to' from webmail, because people were being hassled off board.

― Keith, Saturday, August 1, 2009 5:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there was ever a "reply to"?

every webmail i've gotten has been unreplyable. which is ok, but maybe there shoudl be some sort of reminder to put your own email address in the message? or even an optional field for your email addy?

More poll forms would be fun. One that allowed you to rank the options from first to last, say, or just allowed you to tick multiple boxes, livejournal style.

Would like this!

Also, if you decide to _not_ bring back lists of ILX-wide stats, I would still be interested in personal stats on on each person's profile page re: how many posts they've made, how many threads they've started, etc. Or at least a way for each user to see their own info.

Oh, and that secret cool feature Ned Raggett has that notifies him as soon as someone mentions his name anywhere on ILX causing him to show up.

*holds breath & refreshes like mad*

but maybe there shoudl be some sort of reminder to put your own email address in the message? or even an optional field for your email addy?

Sure...

Musically, I do actually have these numbers, but what you're specifically asking for is one of the reasons I got rid of the stats thing! Tom Ewing wrote an article about this... Having # posts against each user automatically gives certain people status in the community, and this isn't necessarily a good thing (loads of posts doesn't mean loads of quality posts), so what I was thinking of was some more point in time stats, like # posts in the last week or month or something, which would be a bit more interesting anyway, as it changes more frequently.

Re: your own info, then yes sure - no reason not to show it there.

Oh and for now, you've made 3,839 posts.

omg i want to know mine!

... and 35 good ones! ;-) (xpost)

Surm, 1,209

OK, olive should be olive, webmail has a note on it warning you to stick your email address in it and there's XML for bookmarks that have new answers.

Stet: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/BookmarksControllerServlet?xml=true

(not choosing these out of favouritism, they were just some of the easier things for now)

fair point!

also, counting the days til Musk discovers this and decides this means ILX is "scraping the data" or some other such BS

it’s the same thing a zillion news sites use and draws traffic to the site. he will inevitably try to pull money from that eventually and further hasten the death spiral

The rate things are going, tweets here will outlast X the service itself. so you say there's a chance do you

Not sure why people feel it's ok to post links to articles which are behind paywalls, it's 100 times more annoying than embedded tweets imo.

Most paywalled articles can be viewed for free by putting the URL into archive.ph, people should post those instead imo.

Yeah, or just c&p the relevant section or w/e - if you want people to read something it's just a basic consideration.

Alternately, install the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Firefox https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

it shouldn't be up to the people reading it to go to this sort of bother. I mostly read ilx via the android app anyway, so wouldn't work for me.

it's 100 times more annoying than embedded tweets imo.

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Well, that's not the feedback I've been getting.

Nah it’s good, just post “paywalled” and i know to hit archive from the git

just type bleepborp and I know to filter the gaff into the meowbox

I like to pay for words. Both because I think that is a good thing to do (word-writing is work that should be compensated), and because I am a word-writer myself (who likes to feed his family).

But I also like to give words away, because I think that is a good thing to do. So if anyone wants a gift link to anything on WaPo, NYT, the Atlantic, or the New Yorker (and I think NYMag as well), hit me up.

I've been dying for years for a way to unfollow a thread I accidentally clicked into. I use the unfilled dot as an easy way to see what threads have unread posts, but I don't want to bookmark them because I also don't like having a long list of them at the top of the page.

Delete ILX 👍

Load 100 previous messages option. I noticed that the Saturday Night Live thread had got loads of new posts, but missed the initial posts which revived it, so had to open all 9000+ posts to see what kicked off the discussion.

That's a good idea.

I've been dying for years for a way to unfollow a thread I accidentally clicked into. I use the unfilled dot as an easy way to see what threads have unread posts, but I don't want to bookmark them because I also don't like having a long list of them at the top of the page.

this would be really useful. even better a killfile but for threads

Load 100 previous messages option. I noticed that the Saturday Night Live thread had got loads of new posts, but missed the initial posts which revived it, so had to open all 9000+ posts to see what kicked off the discussion.

This kind of already exists. If you click a post you can increment the URL to get earlier posts.

Step 1: Click the "link" tag at the end of a post.
Step 2: the URL of this new page will contain something in the middle that says "bookmarkedmessageid=8701535" (but the number will be different.)
Step 3: Decrease that number a little bit and you get the thread loaded from an earlier point. Usually 1000 or is a good number (so in this case you would change the number to 8700535).

What I would love for ILX (and I know this has been mentioned before) would be on the Search Page if you could order results by "Most Recently Updated", not just Most Relevant, Newest, or Oldest. That way if there's multiple threads on Godzilla or whatever you can find the one that people have been using recently.

yes! Newest AND most relevant.

there's already a kilfile for threads:

https://github.com/acdean/kilxor/blob/master/snatk.user.js

todo, check it still works

It doesn’t work if you use zing or the android app. Stet said he was working on a hide thread feature for zing for a future update.

Yellowkid, thanks! I will use that...

Following on from the opton to load X amount of previous messages, how about an option to just to the first message in the last 24 hours?

*jump to the…

can someone remind me what the trick is for searching a particular phrase? I searched “son of saul” (in quotes, looking for discussion about the film fwiw), and the results are basically any post with any of those words in them

I just did a search that looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/rHKDYFa.png

Many different posts and threads came up, but they all contained those words — Son of Saul — in consecutive order.

k3vin, you have smart quotes in your post and probably in your query. you probably want to disable that on whatever device you're using

(smart quotes are the goofy thing that replace the double vertical ticks with curved ones on either side of what your computer things is a quote)

To illustrate the difference...

Dumb quotes are straight, meaning that open/closing marks are exactly the same: ", '
Smart quote open marks are different from closing marks: “”, ‘’

ah interesting, thanks!

Is it too late to have an ILX NFT offering? Man, we shoulda done that.

still hodling my board apes

make the buttons bigger!

Write your own CSS :)

My stylesheet “teal_and_orange_dot_xls.css: ” has big buttons: https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/changestylesheet.jsp

It also has some bugs I will one day get around to fixing.

Bugs like, when I wanted to go back but clicking on "Change Style" didn't work anymore? I see what you're doing here - you want everyone trapped in a t&o madhouse!

Eventually it worked, but it took several attempts at clicking the Change Style button. It's a cool-looking stylesheet though!

That’s just a general browser caching issue for all styles on ILX, I find refreshing the page works to clear that.

I want to hide threads sometimes.
is that possible?

Yes. Use zing. It’s great.

Don't have an iphone and will never have an iphone so don't think that's going to work.

I don’t “get” Zing, I gotta say. Gimme the web.