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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)

Skipping 196 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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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