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This thread is for Graham to tell us about ginchy new features he's put on ILX. If he likes it can also be a feature request thread too (but wait for him to ok this please!). Both of these things had spilt over into the moderator thread and contributed to its staggering length.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

What is this new (later) thing?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

It e-mails Jools Holland and tells him to read the thread.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

nice.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

ginchy?

― zemko (bob), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

If you click on the 'later' everone on the thread goes into a boogie-woogie jam session.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it marks the post as 'unread', and all posts from that time onwards

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

It marks all following posts as unread, to remind you you haven't read the whole thread. If you can thing of a better name for it I'll gladly change it (although Avril fans might object).

New features requests are fine here.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah - that makes sense. Like 'hey - I'll read this later'. Good. I think it should be renamed 'laters'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it should be renamed "Peace out!"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham. The 'mark threads that contain images' feature doesn't seem to work, and hasn't ever worked really. Is this a known problem?

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It does, it's just internet explorer ignores what bullet I tull it to use. I'm not sure what to do.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell people to get a browser that can interpret HTML properly.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed, your prescriptiveness on this matter seems to run counter to your stance on Iraq.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Hollow bullets are twice as lethal, Graham, that's why IE doesn't use them. You could try a square instead.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Open standards are there to enable people to comunicate properly.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed is OTM. The 'mark threads that contain images' feature works fine in Mozilla and related browsers.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not using some.. indie browser.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

get yourself safari, or mozilla, or omniweb or something, rockist.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

ie on mac shows those hollow bullets

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about plastic surgery.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I am interested in Safari, seeing as IE crashes on my Mac more than anything else. But seeing as it doesn't even work with *ILE* (last I heard), what hope is there for other sites.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

But I am more interested in 'Graham's new features'

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a big red mark, possibly a boil though I'm not quite sure what one of those is, on the left side of my neck. It itches but my hair hides it.

I haven't got Safari yet.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham, You should find another student with a boil like that and strike up a conversation about it.
*hides*

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like a link next to each thread title in the new answers page to mark it as read; there are some thread I just don't read, and by cleaning up the screen as it were, makes it easier for me to see the threads I want to see.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Won't the link to the thread do that well enough?

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Get omniweb then, nick.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

How about a marker for threads you have already posted in?
It would make it easier for me to find threads I have posted to whilst drunk (and apologise). An asterisk would do nicely.

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Has the boil talked to you yet?

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The red writing disappeared from view some time ago. I've tried everything...

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Highlighter pen?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it's a goiter, Graham?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry,where is this later thing?
maybe im being stupid but i don't see it

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

it could be because im using an old version of netscape though
great idea for a feature,anyway...

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

It should be right at the end of each post, just after the date.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

PJ, robin, you both need to click the Settings link at the bottom, go to the New Answers Pages section and check the first two boxes.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

nice one graham
seems to be working now

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Reverse comment order? (newest posts appear first)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 February 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

and he got it working with Safari too. Thanks again.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 February 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Reverse comment order is mad - there is a flow, sometimes at least!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 February 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, but if you already have been in the flow you don't need to be briefed about it.

I think there should be a reverse option rightby the submit button, not on the settings page. I wouldn't want to have every thread i click on be reversed, just the ones I've been following religiously

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

First new feature for this thread: You can change images to links on the Settings page now.

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham I have just had an idea - is there any way you can make an admin log page where details of changed posts and deleted threads etc are kept - not the actual changed content, just eg

"25/2/03: 2 posts on [THREAD NAME] changed by graham.
26/2/03: [THREAD NAME] deleted by Groke."

etc etc.

It could be private for mods or public - but it would be useful to x-ref with the shout-for-moderator thread and see what's outstanding and also as a record of interventions.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely you've already been congratulated G, but I ADORE the "duplicate message" thingy. Rock on.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Pleez can we have an option for tilting threads?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Tilting?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

bah - and allow it to recognise spaces after line breaks too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate you.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

(which looks like "tlit" if you read if from top to bottom)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick perhaps it's time to go outside?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It's 2 in the morning and COLD.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham is it in the cards to allow javascript? or am i being tlitty?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

erm, what would you want it for?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

to do even more pointless shit than we do now, duh!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

seems like tempting fate with peeps like Sean M Hall around..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Man if we had javascript people would abuse the site!
<embed SRC="http://wizardishungry.com/page.wav" AUTOSTART=TRUE LOOP=TRUE WIDTH=145 HEIGHT=55 ALIGN="RIGHT">

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

jonathan you are a bad mang.

that bludy thing just went off in my office, grrr

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually love that thing.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

What stops you using Javascript Tracer?

I'm going to ban autostart embed tags.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd ban script tags.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Jonathan could you (and the others who've been doing it) fucking STOP embedding shit in threads please? It's irritating for *so* many reasons.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham, that was my point, thanks.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Underscores are now centered in Safari.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

As a matter of interest, Graham, are/were the things that stop/stopped ILX working properly with Safari due to ILX being previously non-compliant with some internet standards or due to Safari being buggy?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Safari wants cookies to always say what server they belong to. It won't imply it rfrom where they came from. A bug really. As is the center thing. I'll fix the login thing soon, but you can log in from the front page, jsut no where else.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Tom's suggestion is a good one, it's better for everyone if records of deleted things are kept.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham when I tried to do a rollover animation it didn't work; I suspected that it wuz becuz carriage returns are automatically converted to linebreaks? (fully willing to accept that it wuz crap code, though)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

the favicon things look nice

andy

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 27 February 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

No idea what went on this evening.

Can anyone else see the favicon?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 27 February 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I can see the favicon in Galeon/Mozilla on Linux!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 27 February 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I just want to test something

Pynchon: Skool Me

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 28 February 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

It works :)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 28 February 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

what is the favicon?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 February 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

If you use Safari and some versions of IE, it shows a little icon next to the URL set by the site. ilx has one now, but most browsers only ever look once per site ever, so if you've used ilx at all before in that browser, you won't see it.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham: Would it be possible to include a feature whereby we can display "x" number of posts in a given thread, then click on "next" and see the following "x" number, and so on? That way modem users could browse the longer threads without waiting hours for them to load; and everyone could view them without worrying about their computers crashing.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 3 March 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i've always wanted a list of recent threads by length of question in characters. so that new answers starts with the shortest at the top, making a nice stack on the page.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 3 March 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

If you use Safari and some versions of IE, it shows a little icon next to
the URL set by the site. ilx has one now, but most browsers only ever look
once per site ever, so if you've used ilx at all before in that browser,
you won't see it.
-- Graham (dtc...) (webmail), February 28th, 2003 9:25 AM. (later) (
graham) (link)

there's something you can insert in a page HEAD to make this go to a specific file....

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Amateurist: A more elegant way to browse long threads is U+K.

Yes I've done that Jon. My Safari randomly started displaying it one day.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

mine too

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham: That just seems to list threads in order of the length of their titles.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Safari use Mozilla/Gecko? Is it a fork or just something embedding Gecko?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Safari is based on khtml, the basis of konqueror.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

hurray. now to make it perfect I'll have to make it display monospaced...

thanks. heeeee

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

KDE and QT leave a bad taste in my my mouth :(

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

luckily khtml is abase library and doesn't depend on anything else, I think. Apple have tweaked it and it really is quick.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

the title of this thread makes me picture graham as a cyborg

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry to people who had Mark Images or Google Search switched on in the Settings. I've lost them accidentally, but on the other hand I've fixed the Relative Images bug so you can switch that on too now.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

There's now a log of mederator activity on each thread, when you click Show All Details (for example). There's going to be a central consolidated log somewhere too.

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 8 March 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

mods should have to choose or state a reason for actions eg message ... deleted by request, or message ... edited due to annoying javascript. good work though

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 9 March 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the sorted by thread title length also.

Where can we search for old Greenspun threads that haven't been revived since the move to ILXOR?

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 9 March 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham, any chance of the google/ile/ilem search box returning, please?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 9 March 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

How do you mean, felicity? All the threads were transferred and will turn up under the search page. Or do you for some reason want a list of all the ones that haven't been posted to since whenever we moved from greenspun?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 9 March 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

N, you are so right.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 9 March 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Hurrah!

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 9 March 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

savour it

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 9 March 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

This was the thread I used to test it:

How do you tell someone you want to break up with them?

I just love Alan's post there.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 9 March 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Page footer > Log > Admin Log. All current entries are me testing it out mostly.

Do you know this trick felicity?

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 9 March 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Graham, that's a good one. If only I could remember what they all were, then I could think to search for them! Have the great treasure troves of Old School Greenspun "Uncategorized" been switched over here as well?

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 10 March 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The uncategorised are here:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/category.php?catid=0&board=1

The uncategorisable are here:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/category.php?catid=142

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 10 March 2003 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe you as a moderator get a different view but the Uncategorised I see date only from after the move to wh3rd.net (post-summer 2002).

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 10 March 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Meta > Imported

― Graham (graham), Monday, 10 March 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

HOORAY! Has that always been there? HOORAY!

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 10 March 2003 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

aaah - that's what you were on about.

My favourite new feature (which I am about to try out) is the one on the search page that allows you to go back to the 'New Answers' of any date in ILX's history.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 10 March 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yes, that's a classic, literally

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 10 March 2003 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It's quite fantastic for two reasons:

1. It's the easiest way of reminding yourself of old threads you might want to revive (especially great for people who have come to ILX relatively recently). Like the random thread picker but you scan loads at once

2. It offers a perfect way of testing any 'ILE isn't as good as it used to be' theories.

I commend it to the house.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 10 March 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for the log Graham!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 10 March 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

New Answers the Rock'n'Roll Years does truly rock.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 10 March 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Umm... I still can't get the cookies to work with Safari. I tried logging in from the front page (www.ilxor.com) but still no joy - it says I have logged in but then.. I haven't.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 23 March 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh OK - when I just posted that it asked for my password and now I am finally logged in. Hurrah! Safari really does load pages damn fast.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 23 March 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, could there by an ILE category for threads about the WAR?

I love WAR.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been putting them all in 9/11 and after. Controversial perhaps but hey - is anyone seriously going to deny that's why this war is happening?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but the only problem with that is that it's difficult for people who were looking for material specifically related to 9/11 (or the war) to find what they're looking for if all of those threads are grouped together. I don't know, though -- what does anyone else think?

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I think there should be a specific Iraq War 2003 category.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel like a sell-out categorizing war threads in "9/11 and After." There have been tons of threads devoted to that and to this: why not just have a new category?

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with Jel. Also, as a novitiate moderator, or NovMod, I do not know how to categorise extant threads anyway.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I may be just be unobservant, but when and why did the search box disappear and the Blog view (which is confusing but intriguing) appear?

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't understand your question, Simeon.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Simeon - just now, as far as I know.

Martin - Go to 'Administer board' from the front (New Questions) page, Martin. However, what you can't do is categorise a thread from the thread itself. This would be v.handy. At the moment, if you specifically want to categorise an old thread you have to page through pages of uncategorised threads to get to it. More generally, it would be useful to be able to jump through (to a specific date?) the uncategorised threads because you might have already decided that you don't want to/don't know how to categorise the ones in the first few pages.

I guess you are right about 9/11 and after. I don't think we should have a new category just for the Iraq War, jel. I think a general 'Wars' one is better (with an 'International relations' one for when it's not actually a war being discussed). Or, better still, just a 'Wars and International Relations' one to cover both. I don't want the list to get too long or people won't use it.

I also think we should be getting rid of things like 'A bit of the old ultra violence', cute as they are.

I just added Crime, Friendship, Race & Ethnicity, Culture: Radio and Culture: Comedians without asking anyone. I was busy categorising and got frustrated with outdated multilateral processes of law. Did I do bad?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Blog View is also on the New Questions page.

I thought it was just going to list the posts with external links in them - that would be cool. A kind of autoblog.

Graham - I don't like that favicon!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin - the search box (Google/ILE/ILM) in the top right disappeared a couple of weeks ago (March 7th?). I remember now because I wanted to check if anyone had posted about that awful 8march2003.com site. I guess it's because of server load, but surely it would prevent a fair number of dupe threads?

And yeah, the blog view appeared on new questions (earlier today?) It's neat as I have RSI and can just read a ton of posts without the clicky-clicky thing. I still don't really get how it's ordered yet, but semi-random is good for me.

How do I get to see this fabled Favicon?

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a bit ugly - you don't want to.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

What's a Favicon?

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha it is our little secret.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I am still tempted to add an Asshat category. But don't worry, I won't.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Also I added Picture Threads and Culture:Comics. If it's a problem, let me know.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham - I keep meaning to ask. Is there an unsolvable issue in stopping logged in user's details appearing when they overwrite them in an effort to be anonymous? I know it's in the FAQ but it can be very embarrassing for people.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The search box preferences got deleted or something a few weeks ago, but I just went into "settings" and turned mine back on. It's there now.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I forgot that I also added a Holidays category because there were more than a gajillion xmas threads and lot of Valentines, Boxing Day, etc. ones as well.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't be hard on the favicon, it's pretty hard to do something neat with 16x16 pixels. I'll mail Graham my drunken best attempts though...

― Simeon (Simeon), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

It should be noted that holidays means vacations to we British folk. I suppose this doesn't matter too much, though there is potentially crossover with the Places category.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Chris Piuma, sorted now!

― Simeon (Simeon), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It should be noted that holidays means vacations to we British folk.

I had thought of that, but couldn't really think of a better name for the category. I can delete it.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicole: Note the cleverly named Dates, festivals, etc category.

The Blog View appeared last night. It just ordered in reverse order of questions posted. I came up with it ages ago just to see how easy it would be to make the ILx software into bloggin software, but it seems kind of useful so I added a link to it.

Simeon: The search box removing thing was a fuckup. I deleted the preferences for it. You cna switch it back on if you still want it. There's still a search link at the bottom of every page.

Nick: You can erase the username from the edit message page. I suppose it could automatically post without username if people change what it says, but quite often people want to be identified. I put it to the floor.

I guess I'll add the categorising from the thread itself.

― grraham, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I am still tempted to add an Asshat category. But don't worry, I won't.

Rah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi G - can you explain exactly what you mean? (I may be being thick). Why, if one has changed the username/email address from the default would you want it to revert to your login details? Or is that not what you're saying? I've never tried changing my email address so I don't know exactly what happens but people seemed to be implying that that's the way it works.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

If you change your email address or whatever it still gets stamped with the username of the person currrently logged in. Sometimes people joke by changing their name but expect to be recongnised from their username. I don't know, the username stamp was meant to flag up impersonations, but later on I added the thing that stops impersonations completely, so I'm not sure it makes sense.

― grraham, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I still don't see!

This is the way your details appear to me:

grraham (nonot@loggingin.com), March 26th, 2003 1:22 AM.

If you change the grraham to something else (and the nonot@loggingin.com), which are the two boxes you get when you post, what still identifies you? Am I not seeing something?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

See the box below the message box where your Login name. That gets stamped on the message regardless of what you change in the other two boxes, unless you logout. And you can see the stamp if you click Show All Details or enable it in the preferences. But you seem to know all this, so what are you asking?

― grraham, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah - I must not have 'show all details' checked. I didn't know there was a 'username' over and above 'your full name'. I understand now. Well yeah, I think it's a bad idea. I don't see the point, seeing as if someone wants to abuse the name changing thing they can just log out anyway.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, I will remove the category. I think I will just leave xmas threads and stuff alone for now, I'm not comfortable putting them in the other category either.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Weirdo.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

HEY! I have just thought of a terrific idea for a new feature! Clicking on someone's name could give all that person's questions! I know you can do this through search but this would be neater.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Except that clicking on their name gives their profile, which seems right and proper, and intuitively sensible behaviour. If this is to exist, why not a button from the profile? I can't see that I'd use it anyway, not that that is meant to be an argument against it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh - i have my settings different to you.

Look how great it would be Martin!

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Second half of Season 4 to the address on the other thread and it's done.

― grraham, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be too depressing to follow your link, Nick.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all about comics, advertising and sex!

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, you posted the most responses to the "Phone sex ads in comic books" thread.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Comics, ads and sex = my life. It's true.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

= I masturbate over adverts for comic books.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

For saying that on my thread, Season 3 Part 1 and you're not even getting any new features out of it.

― grraham, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham, why is the ilxor.com link appearing in top right instead of ILM or ILE?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

What's with the 'Contribute an answer' button at the bottom of the threads? Surely I can't be the only one who likes to see the thread while composing a response?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

what's with the old greenspun-style "contribute an answer" stuff? i really like the ilxor style form at the bottom -- makes it easier to quote etc.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham has gone haywire.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah this is kinda rub (but surely well meaning or some sort of error).

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus, I'm lazy. Will this mean even less posts from moi?? OH no!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

come on Graham, please change back !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I have an appointment to get to. Have fun!

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Mad scientist ! in white coat alert ! Earth calling Graham ;-)

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

God - the features DO keep disappearing, don't they?! Quick - get that Buffy Box Set in the post or there'll be NOTHING LEFT! It's like the Neverending Story but even geekier.

I'll throw in a Crossroads calendar if Graham puts it all back like it was before.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham is the Dawn Summers of ILx.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Graham is teaching us a lesson about taking him for granted. It's a rub lesson.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

What are you sending me Nick?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm running late!

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

We're not your toys you know, AND WE WON'T PLAY YOUR SICK GAME

― Jean Luc Picard (Ronan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.rubinoos.com/cd-rvnge.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

the "blog" view seems like a nice idea, but is it meant to be ALL blue writing?

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

This is seriously disheartening.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Blue is beautiful, Blue is best. I AM BLUE. I AM BEAUTIFUL. I AM BEST.

A better lesson about being taken for granted.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

OMNIPOTENT HEN!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

My mum says "I'll do it myself said the little red hen" when she asks someone to do something and they say no or they can't or whatever.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

well, either that or get out of bed and do it now.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, are you suggesting that Graham should ban everyone from the boards and enjoy them himself?

Ronan, you shouldn't be in bed with your mother at your age.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I know, it's like Angelas Ashes round my house, like everywhere in Ireland obviously.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I also don't like the contribute button and then not being able to see previous answers...makes cutting and pasting multiple quotes tedious. Also I miss the ILM link on ILE and vice-versa.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Also I miss the ILM link on ILE and vice-versa.

me too.

I can live without being able to see the rest of the thread when replying. but is there a reason for hiding it?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

er, sorry, missed some of the background on this when I thought I understood. I'm so confused.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

graham what i have i done to deserve this?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sent him a Buffy box-set, obviously.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

*sigh* Graham, I for one have always liked you. But this is flat out pointless on your part. Please -- there are better ways to get something off your chest than messing around with things for everyone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham, I sent you email offering you a present and despite the hoopla today that still stands. If you didn't receive the email, drop me a line.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Put bored lonely emotionally unstable teenager in sole charge with very little real support except the odd thankyou and watch the sparks fly!

-- Graham (dtc...), March 5th, 2003 8:49 PM.

― ron (ron), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

And I *hate* blue.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Blimey kids, I think you might be overreacting a little? I thought Graham was just kidding on the Buffy box set, and the contribute answer thing is just like it was on Greenspun (like he said) - think you might be jumping down his throat a bit?

On saying that, I want all seasons of Buffy on dvd, especially S3 and S5 and if anyone can pre-order me season 7 that would be fantastic. And if you don't get me them I'll KILL YOU ALL WITH MATHS!!

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

bluff. maths has no power in the REAL WORLD.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing is, Sarah, that if he was kidding, he should have said so before he disappeared. I thought he was kidding, too, until he basically said, "Oh sorry, I was sick yesterday" and then ran off, leaving the board like this without saying if or when he was going to put things back.

At any rate, I would much prefer that the main technical person working on this site wasn't capricious enough to remove features and switch stuff around because he was in a bad mood OR for private laughs. The userbase for the boards is large enough now that that type of thing can be very damaging even if it isn't meant maliciously. Anyway, even if he is kidding now, he has crossed the line in the past in situations where he wasn't kidding (the shouting out of cars thread) and has pretty much proved to me that, while he's got great technical skills, he shouldn't be in a position of authority.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Fair points Dan, I'm just worried that he'll have disappeared off to an exam or something, come back and it'll look like trial by ILX has come to a verdict without him even really knowing what was going on. Yer get meh?

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah has made a v. good point. Can we resurrect the Graham advice thread -- perhaps this should have been after Fri night in a pre-emptive kind of way

― alext (alext), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

perhaps, but there may well be some lessons in human interaction here, which should have been learnt by now. this thread can also be beneficial as an advice thread, for future situations of how not to do things

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

And I still think someone else should be in charge of the technical aspects of the board.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I will do it! I will haxx0r j00r databasez!!

Maybe not me then.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think calling for Graham to be stripped of all his technie responsibilities is a good idea (unless he's just plain fed up with it, of course), and I suspect that ultimately its Tom's decision, but allowing more than one person to do the tech stuff is certainly the way forward, with some sort of situation in place so that Graham can't just knock the whole thing down if he ever becomes minded to.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think calling for Graham to be stripped of all his technie responsibilities is a good idea

I don't think letting someone who has repeatedly abused his position stay in it is a good idea.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

In retrospect more people should have been involved right from the beginning - lots of people offered help but Graham had actually gone and produced something which kind of pushed things in his direction naturally. As Sean has pointed out on other threads he hasn't actually done anything that awful - but it's the fact that he has the sole ability and will to do these things which is worrying/angering people.

I think that Graham is a bit burnt-out with the whole ilx thing, just as Mark is, just as I am. Alan's suggestion of a collaborative programming group is probably the best one - whether that includes Graham or not is up to him, really, but that's the direction we need to go in.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the collaborative idea is good -- so that when one of you's gets burnt out (which is natural), you can take a break from ILX and it will still be up and running. Maybe people feel threatened since one thing that's grebt about ILX is it's apparant communal ownership (even though, yes, as Graham has shown that's a bit of an illusion).

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

if will kill and eat graham, will we gain his powers and this have no more need of him?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the "read back b4 u post" powers

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i stand by everything i post, you know that

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

someone has to < / it wz an open goal guv!! >

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

(The Buffy boxsets idea was a joke, the sending me a card (or anything else) wasn't. Nick?)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

delete N graham. he fucks slugs. disgusting.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i want to see the blog view played with some please. i don't think it's quite right yet, is it?

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

looking at the source it def looks like just a missing </a> is meant to be after the bold thread title

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

What? Why was I especially supposed to send you a card? And even if I was going to send you a card, you only posted your address yesterday, you asshat. I was kind of thinking of sending you something (but hey, everyone says that). Hey I'm stone cold rhymin.

Go on, delete ILE. Sell your code to the US military. Have the last laugh. Who cares?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

''Sell your code to the US military''

haha! How much is graham's code worth.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(Does Hallmark even make a "sorry I fucked your slugs" card?)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

if you pay them enuff they might. what's yr budget?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone needs to photoshop a card with a cute kitten saying "Sorry I fucked your slugs"

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I FUCKED YOUR SLUGS YOU FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio appears to be in the act of doing it too

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Asshat!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

ilXor.com now has a first attempt at supporting Movable Type's TrackBack system. When you post a message that links to a TB compatible site (MT blogs, MetaFilter etc), a TrackBack ping is sent to that site and they'll list it somewhere. When someone with a compatible site links to us, a trackback link is added to the approprate message, and you'll be able to see what that site said about us by clicking it. This is really just a way of formalising the referrals system.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

(In fact, if you click that link and scroll to the very bottom, you'll see the trackback ping that got sent when I posted that message)

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, neat. :-) ILXOR can become the center of the universe now (sorta).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Now has tentative support for pinging blogs still using TB 1.0, and I've added the bit for other servers to retrieve a list of our trackbacks in XML. Just need to add the bit for reading other's trackback lists, and we have the full set.

(I know this isn't going to be useful very often, but when it does work it works really well)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

A possible unitended consequence is the trackbacks work when people link threads from the moderator threads (or any other thread). Now that's useful.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

YES!!!!! Graham I've turned this over in my mind forever and just assumed it would be too hard or something; the prob with blue writing (and the Interweb in general) is that you can use it to link to an old thread but that old thread remains woefully unaware of the new one. No more! Truly fab!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 April 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(Graham I've just looked and it seems like the link from the TrackBack page doesn't work.... you may need a forward slash after the domain name?)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

(Some early entries missed them out, I'll update the database soon, but it's a bit fiddly. Thanks for reminding me)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Posting is fixed. I'm v.v. sorry it stayed broken for so long.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 10 April 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

thanx.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 April 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Boo.

― Cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Questions are now viewable by date on the board front page.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Look kids, RSS.

(I'll add more attributes soon)

― Graham (graham), Friday, 11 April 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

And now we have RSS feeds for each thread too. If I'm feeling really bored I'll add SOAP cloud stuff as well. It's a pity NetNewsWire is such shite (I may well write my own actually).

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 12 April 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The URL for RSS links has now changed to be .xml, so you'll have to change your address accordingly if you've subscribed to any of them (though NetNewsWire is still too dumb to autodetect them). Is anyone using this yet?

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 12 April 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know what it is.

it probably isn't something I'd use, I think.

but I'm sure it's a great thing for those that would.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 13 April 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yes, quick explanation. RSS pages are basically a machine readable summary of what's on a given page. Programs like NetNewsWire can read the page and give you a nice list of messages and questions without looking at the site in a web browser.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 13 April 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Neat! I was going to ask. Looks like as a layout of the coding, I have to say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 April 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks 'NICE,' damn my haste.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 April 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I LOVE BLOG VIEW!!!

blo-og vieew...
Blo-og Vieeeww...
BLOO-OG VIIEEEEEEEWWWWW!!!!

(My god, I just made a horribly weak joke that only Ned, maybe, will get)

― Dan I., Sunday, 13 April 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Normal view! Normal VIEW! NOR-MAL VIEWWWWWWW!

(Ew, it looks like Michael Stipe's head!)

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 13 April 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris beat me to the punch. Just saw that one again the other day, actually.

"Glad you could join us at the Buddy Ebsen Society!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 April 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

put you in the BITCH transformer!!

― st (simon_tr), Sunday, 13 April 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You can see your subscriptions on the Settings page now.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Under the subscriptions, at the bottom of the settings page, there are a few threads listed with checkboxes next to them, and they have your two e-mail addresses, Graham. Is that right? I couldn't figure out what the point of that part was.

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 13 April 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, fixed. It should show your subscriptions now. Thanks for poiting that out.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 13 April 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Australia (the parts that have daylight saving) and New Zealand have been add to the time zones list. People with .nz,.uk,.fr,.de etc email addresses have had theirs preset. Everyoen else needs to go to their settings page and choose the right time zone if they want daylight savings applied automatically.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 14 April 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

previous questions by date is broken at the mo.

p.s. RSS is an excellent addition. Where on earth do you hear about this stuff, G?

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 14 April 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Fixed now.

Probably MetaFilter, I don't recall.

Your email accepts attachments, right?

― Graham (graham), Monday, 14 April 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

uh yes.

The month lists work OK, but from somewhere in March 2002 back, all the threads are currently listed as being started today.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

AmphetaDesk is the shit for RSS.

having said that I can't get it to pick up the ilx feed.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Fixed.

I don't see why neither program picks up feeds. The tags used are exactly as described here.

I thought the whole point of aggregators was avoiding clunky web interfaces.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

added to the myChannels.opml works for me

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

added to the myChannels.opml works for me

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the more I can do from with the browser the better espcially with new improved safari

― Ed (dali), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

it works from Safari with the "Subscribe" javascript link they provide in the help. if you can't get that to work it might be to do with your webserving setup. or something

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, got it working now. Not quite sure of the use of this feature just yet but it may come in handy for monitoring threads.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't get Slashdock http://homepage.mac.com/stas/slashdock.html to work with ILXOR. which is a shame as it works in a way I like.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it's your problem now.

I've just updated the login system to work with Safari.

And with that, I quit as ilx administrator. Alan has the sourcecode and passwords and is interim in charge. I'm still pissed he ruined my Miami joke though.

I won't be posting much either from now on.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

(Alan: the postmessage.php i sent you displays the trackback sent message twice - I've fixed it on the server)

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(Graham don't forget to email me when your package shows up.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Well graham I can't say it's always been smooth sailing, but you've done wonders in yr. tenure which are much appreciated.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

For those that didn't see this last night, the regime has fallen. Volunteers welcome.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

SlashDock is great, thanks for the tip.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

eek. obv.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Good grief! Graham, you have done an extraordinarily fantastic job coding all this stuff. I hope you hang around and become a very regular poster, but whatever the case, enormous thanks for all this.

Alan, if you need a hand on anything and can conceive of my being any help, just ask. I don't know anything about what all this is written in, so I've no clue how much I could contribute.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah thanks Graham, don't be a stranger!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Seconded! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks again to Graham for all of the hard work that he has done to create such an efficient site. I hope you know that your work here was appreciated.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks y'all.

I should probably stress that Alan is just the person I sent the code and instructions, he's not necessarily going to be my successor, and more likely several people will be working on it in future.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

why isn't there a category about the Iraq War? and don't tell me there's a thread for 11-9 and after, because otherwise every future international political event until the end of the world will end up in it.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

All this coding work has been fabulou graham.

I can only offer help with front end stuff (not really what ILE is all about), and with testing to destruction.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

If we find a solution that allows multiple people to work on the code, then I'd like to be one. If it's just going to be one person, then no.

And further props to Graham on the coding.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

CVS?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

I've added an RSS for New Answers (and got the RSS feeds to work with SlashDock). Don't know how much people will use this anyway, but I'm pretty much addicted now.

In case anyone cares, I'm getting to the point where I feel I've got enough comments in the main php files to muddle through pretty well, but that's largely cos I've been tinkering and STARING AT IT ALL VERY HARD.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

not sure if this is related, but the default page won't come up for me:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

d'oh. fixed that

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

you're like the guy in 'Airplane!' when he unplugs the landing lights!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the URL for the New Answers RSS file? The usual permutations aren't working for me.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a link at the top of the ILE New Questions page: http://ilx.wh3rd.net/newanswersrss.xml?board=1

(or have I misunderstood?)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for the pointer. I rarely look at the "New Questions Page" and usually go straight to New Answers and didn't see it.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

(can anyone with macos x 10.2 and an interest in RSS email me? Esp. NetNewsWire users. I may have something for you)

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris Barrus to thread...again!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

With this new TrackBack system, I guess people should think twice before posting links to TrackBack enabled websites that might invite unwelcome destructive people to ILX.

Maybe if you take the http out of such addresses so that it's not a proper hotlink?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 May 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this about Gigalo Jess, Nick? Is there something you'd like to tell us?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 25 May 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

(plug plug: shrook, an rss reader for macos x)

― Graham (graham), Monday, 26 May 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Now on MACINTOUCH: http://www.macintouch.com/index.shtml#shrook

I spotted this in my RSS feed through slashdock. graham, $20?!! What do you get for registering. (Sorry my e-mail is playing up)

p.s. you were right about left joins -- I'll get that done soon. Also, any idea why the newanswerscache which usually taked 8 to 16 seconds to generate occassionally takes anything from 1-5 mins. (It's in the REPLACE INTO step)

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Not sure who I should be addressing this to in this day and age, but is there any chance of an automatic swearing filter, if such things are possible and/or easy to implement? I'm sure I'm not the only one who keeps getting threads eaten by their work firewall whenever they contain a C word. Annoyingly, this is happening to all the threads I want to read today.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

What a c@#t! *sniggers* sorry.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

An optional feature obviously. I wouldn't want to censor other people's rude sweariness.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Is fuxor acceptable?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha, you can't even ask on the real moderator thread, cause I keep calling the moderators cnuts! (Sorry!)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Judging by the Transformers thread, it doesn't like the phrase Arcee gang r4pe either.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

That's understandable though!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Silly bunts.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 21 November 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

was reading a computer modding forum the other day and thought it was funny that when the guy was describing how he had shaped a part with a bast*rd file, the forum software bleeped it out

― ron (ron), Saturday, 22 November 2003 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the first step is for everyone to compile their lists of sweary words and either post them here or mail them to the moderators -- probably both is best.

― Paul Eater (eater), Sunday, 23 November 2003 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok: damn

(email also sent)

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 23 November 2003 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't believe in not cursing. Then I couldn't say that Bush is a f@#$%$g dimwit. aack! i've just descended into nihilism...

― mandinina (mandinina), Sunday, 23 November 2003 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourite is MTV chat and their censoring of the word do***entary. Haha.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 24 November 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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