Ideas for ILX

Does anyone have any ideas for things they'd like to see - I've kind of run out of ideas for now. I can't promise I'll do them: some things are easy, some are hard, some might be unrealistic (need to bear in mind performance and avoidance of poxy fules and so on); also, how much it interests me is the most important motivating factor... It'd be good to hear people's thoughts.

I will put the stats thing back at some point, but perhaps in a bit of a different form.

Oooo!

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.

• make a toggle option allowing mods to see either images or image links
• let poll options allow more characters
• get rid of suggest ban
• pizza subs tuesdays

The mod image thing is a security thing. If it weren't any sort of issue I would just turn them on.

Oh right, you've said that before. Perhaps I am ignorant, but I don't get why it's a security thing?

Love Gravel's ideas.

A preview screen. I've been tempted at times to just throw in a [//x] every once in awhile so at least the BBcode warning page will let me take a second glance.

It's a long and complicated story, but the root of it is that when your browser tries to go and get a picture, it doesn't check that it's a picture and if it's a piece of script instead, will just happily execute it, which can be subverted to make existing mods do things they didn't know they were doing (e.g. grant someone else mod privileges or whatever).

a kudos/props/Suggest Unban button, with the 51 resulting in an automatic permaban being an aggregate of the two. last time I mention this, I promise.

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

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

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

I mean if it helps, happy to unmod you.

continue keeping it simple and plain

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

Sheesh, just asking!

avatars

No avatars! Ever!

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

Yeah, I wasn't really thinking of avatars!

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

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

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

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

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

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

ignore lists

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=) <3 xp

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

I like the sound of that.

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

No avatars?

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

thanks :) xp

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

some sort of something to fix the webmailing reply issue

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

there was ever a "reply to"?

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

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

Would like this!

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

Anyway I get that embeds are gonna go, just amused by this reasoning.

To me it’s about content not who owns the mall.

I'm pretty sure there is a term for this kind of ethical capitulation, but it escapes me at the moment

something something walled garden idk

tbf twitters population isnt too much better than the owner these days

that's right

nobody will ever stop buying from amazon. you know? despite the evil planet-destroying nature of that business. ease of use and comfort are too dear to people nowadays. everyone is too used to it. tell people that grubhub is owned by a nazi and they will say "damn that sucks uhhhh thai or mexican...i iz hungeeeeeee..."

regardless its more about doing our little part to put a fork in twitter than it is moral math, its a boycott, its working too bunch of nba people showing up on bluesky the last couple days

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art."

- Ursula Le Guin

xp to skot

lag∞n otm, this is about death by a thousand cuts

i prefer someone give musk a lil stronger medicine but theres got to be some consequences for going full publicly nazi, at the presidential inauguration no less, imo twitter was already on its way out but if this event is seen to be the cause of its demise thats good

btw pretty impressed with reddit users for their boycott theyre actually big and influential enough to move the needle didnt know they were cool like that, big contrast with the media failing to state the obvious

i mean personally i’m not super interested in philosophical debates about whether it’s possible to use the internet "ethically"

far as i can tell, all i’ve done is state a preference not to see embeds that remind me of a nazi clown. and like lagoon says, if enough people feel that way, perhaps we can do our little part to sway the tide

anybody is free to get info wherever and however they want, i’m not calling anybody a bad person, but this is a community space and if enough people want to tear out the shag carpet you might have to let them -- calling them delusional libs just makes you seem like an asshole

Its ok I've been called worse.

i am no saint. my love for the 'tube is well-documented. and i obviously have no great love for da google. i have always hated twitter links though because i hate clicking on them because if i do i am on twitter and i can't stand twitter. i've never liked it or really used it. i get why people do. i just kinda hate it.

and they are big. and dumb-looking. the embeds. and when i see one i think: do i really have to go fact-check this shit? i have no idea where they come from.

You know you can just c&p things as opposed to embed the content… or is that too much effort?

i was on there for years until it got too sick even for me, can heartily recommend quitting, tho there are some funny posters i miss

i do think tweet embeds are nice lil units tho theyre ready to go just plop it in there

I want to see more embedded tweets

ive got just the site for you

i do think tweet embeds are nice lil units tho theyre ready to go just plop it in there

That’s part of the problem imo — dropping a link is not a good way to communicate imo.

regardless its more about doing our little part to put a fork in twitter than it is moral math, its a boycott, its working too bunch of nba people showing up on bluesky the last couple days

― lag∞n, Thursday, January 23, 2025 4:24 PM

agree. I wish nfl people would too, but so far I haven't seen it.

i prefer someone give musk a lil stronger medicine but theres got to be some consequences for going full publicly nazi, at the presidential inauguration no less, imo twitter was already on its way out but if this event is seen to be the cause of its demise thats good

lauren
r/baseball: likely banning links to X
r/hockey: banned links to X
r/NBA: banned links to X, instagram and threads
r/NFL: banned links to X, pinned bsky starter packs for all 32 teams

https://bsky.app/profile/lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com/post/3lggsyi2ck227

What's this about Grubhub and Nazis?

theyre nazis now its their thing nazis who deliver food

nobody will ever stop buying from amazon. you know? despite the evil planet-destroying nature of that business. ease of use and comfort are too dear to people nowadays. everyone is too used to it. tell people that grubhub is owned by a nazi and they will say "damn that sucks uhhhh thai or mexican...i iz hungeeeeeee..."

I know several people who have cancelled their Amazon accounts. We haven't yet, but they are a last resort option now.

The Liverpool subreddit banned Twitter, /r/soccer is discussing it.

California's Uber Allies

favstarring this

Voting for banning links and/or turning off embeds whenever stet might be able to or intersted in doing so, but also for past embeds / captured deletes remaining.

I've kvetched before that I never understood the point of twit embeds/links, especially when the link was just to a tweet that was itself a link to an actual story on a news site/blog etc - why notgive the OG poster the traffic instead?

And thats what the Reddit thing's about too - stopping the traffic, hitting Elmo in the hip pocket. I'm all for it.

i just think its far too often a commentless spam approach tbh, aside from any new feeling about musk/x

We going to have another fifty comments of this or what

Maybe some embeds, too.

dmac otm.

TFW you realize that any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.

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I've kvetched before that I never understood the point of twit embeds/links, especially when the link was just to a tweet that was itself a link to an actual story on a news site/blog etc - why notgive the OG poster the traffic instead?

also tweet links are sometimes gift links to get past paywalls

we post twitter embeds all the time on the NBA board bcuz breaking sports news is very often delivered on twitter w/ no greater story attached. it's also the easiest way to post a highlight clip or video of something viral that the greater basketball world is discussing. there is a functional utility to twitter embeds even w/in our community. that said i'm def not going to throw myself in the way of people who are protesting elon musk or twitter lol

As a number of people have been saying, the twitter embeds are simply a very easy and nice feature on ILX for linking to content, and there isn't really a great replacement right now, so I get the resistance to this. It took me a long time to bail on twitter because I was so dependent on it for news, but I haven't missed it, and I think it is totally reasonable to stop having this feature when it supports a nazi oligarch who is actively ruining all of our lives.

and there isn't really a great replacement right now

Tell that to the guys on Twitter

lol got em

You can post gift links to articles as regular links … i have images off so maybe I am missing some special twat feature that is not available elsewhere online

I think I started a thread on here a while back taht got zero response, an "ILX bugs" thread, but there are two things that drive me crazy that I wish could get fixed:

1) convert html to bbcode doesn't work with links correctly. it duplicates the http and messes up the : and //.
2) when your logged in session expires, the page doesn't refresh to log you out. If you try to post in this state, you get a servelet exception, and then recovering from that is a huge pain in the ass. you have to explicitly log yourself out, log back in, and refresh a few times because if you don't you actually still can't post, the site just hangs.

In the search function we can specify to search either thread titles or posts... would it be possible to add "Poll Title" as a choice there? Poll threads aren't always identified as such in their titles and i for one would find it useful if search results could be narrowed to polls only.

I know it's probably not possible, but I'd love to be able to click on a username or login and see all of the other usernames that login has used. Like, to see their history of clever or crappy screen names.

oooh good one

this is mark s erasure

Only one name change ever for me: this is the xyzzzz__ guarantee

i think these are all of mine

Tracer Hand
Euai Kapaui
The Clegg Effect
Illegal economic migration
Humanitarian Pause

I was just remembering suzy's "suggest banh mi" today for some reason