Ideas for ILX

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)

Ho, top, cheers! Pints are yours.

Man, I loved the stats page.

Well, if you want stats for now, which ones and I'll just run them and post them...

Saturday night and no f***er is up for a drink, so at a loose end!

love where we're at now (with the exception of SB, which was an interesting idea and i'm sure not trivial to implement, but it's changed things for the worse imo). i'm generally opposed to new features that change the way ilx works as a magical community of social retards rather than just improve the UI (like remove bookmark links at the end of bookmarked threads) or are just cosmetic (like CSS changes).

preview would be great.

"magical community of social retards"

all my thoughts already mentioned

"continue keeping it simple and plain"

^this above all :)

It sounds better and more true than "a social community of magical retards" (xpost)

Re: the simple and plain thing, I've certainly no plans to change that. I do think the thing is very economical and helps you get straight to the actual important info - what people are posting. I find these PHPBB things really horrible with a really low signal to noise ratio, in that about 20cm on the screen can be taken up by someone saying 'lol' or the like.

lol

i agree, that is terrible

I am super pro-expanding poll options. I think they've grown to play a decently big role here, and you can do lots of pretty interesting things w/ statistics and rankings and stuff.

I agree, it's just one of the harder things to do...

But will spend some time thinking it through.

maybe we can have a function for the race demographics off poll participants

What about a poll option that automatically SBs anybody who starts more than one poll in a week?

Or a function that blows up your computer if you start a poll on something that was done 2 months ago?

Or maybe shoots nerve gas out of your keyboard if you start a poll about Animal Collective?

yeah maybe some polls with two axes so then you can make a histogram based on the respondent's age/sex/whatever

yeah anything that blows up your computer is cool

I'd like a function that prevented people getting uptight about the fact that other people may have discussed the same subject in the past. xx-post

hey thanks in advance Keith for anything you decide to do

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.