XML access to bookmarks that have new answers is top o my wishlist :)
― stet, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"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?
― thomp, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I think the general feeling is: nothing drastic, please, only small functional adjustments. Right?
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
People who haven't posted for six months should have all the bans they've suggested returned to them in a box.
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I would like a way to see how many SB's you have. (Now, I have no idea how annoying I am.)
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
some sort of something to fix the webmailing reply issue
― http://tinyurl.com/npaahw (s1ocki), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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?
― http://tinyurl.com/npaahw (s1ocki), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
*holds breath & refreshes like mad*
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh and for now, you've made 3,839 posts.
― Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
omg i want to know mine!
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
... and 35 good ones! ;-) (xpost)
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Surm, 1,209
― Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
(not choosing these out of favouritism, they were just some of the easier things for now)
Ho, top, cheers! Pints are yours.
― stet, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, I loved the stats page.
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, if you want stats for now, which ones and I'll just run them and post them...
― Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
"magical community of social retards"
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
all my thoughts already mentioned
"continue keeping it simple and plain"
^this above all :)
― bnw, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
It sounds better and more true than "a social community of magical retards" (xpost)
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― iatee, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i agree, that is terrible
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree, it's just one of the harder things to do...
― Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
But will spend some time thinking it through.
maybe we can have a function for the race demographics off poll participants
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
What about a poll option that automatically SBs anybody who starts more than one poll in a week?
― Calamari Merkin (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Calamari Merkin (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah maybe some polls with two axes so then you can make a histogram based on the respondent's age/sex/whatever
― blobfish russian (harbl), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
hey thanks in advance Keith for anything you decide to do
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
how many posts have i made?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Would like to have a simple link to threads I'm on, please!
― Meg (Meg Busset), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Granny, thanks.
Pfunkboy: 15,732
― Keith, Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Meg, don't quite understand that... Can't you get it from your browser's address bar? Maybe that's not what you mean.
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.
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:22 (four weeks ago) link
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)
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:35 (four weeks ago) link
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: “”, ‘’
― Astarion Is Born (Leee), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:47 (four weeks ago) link
ah interesting, thanks!
― brony james (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:59 (four weeks ago) link
Is it too late to have an ILX NFT offering? Man, we shoulda done that.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:03 (four weeks ago) link
still hodling my board apes
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 18:01 (four weeks ago) link
make the buttons bigger!
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:50 (three weeks ago) link
Write your own CSS :)
My stylesheet “teal_and_orange_dot_xls.css: ” has big buttons: https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/changestylesheet.jsp
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 20:09 (three weeks ago) link
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!
― meatster of puppets (peace, man), Thursday, 4 April 2024 11:56 (three weeks ago) link
That’s just a general browser caching issue for all styles on ILX, I find refreshing the page works to clear that.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 5 April 2024 05:36 (three weeks ago) link
I want to hide threads sometimes.is that possible?
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 April 2024 20:44 (two weeks ago) link
Yes. Use zing. It’s great.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 12 April 2024 21:11 (two weeks ago) link
Don't have an iphone and will never have an iphone so don't think that's going to work.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 April 2024 21:16 (two weeks ago) link
I don’t “get” Zing, I gotta say. Gimme the web.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 19 April 2024 04:17 (one week ago) link