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I know that stet's working hard to get all the kinks and codes worked out, but I see nothing wrong in maybe pointing out some of our favorite features from the old nu-ilx.

I'll miss the HTML as well as the user info pages and the bookmarks.

I do like being able to see who started the thread though!

― PPlains (PPlains), Friday, 23 February 2007 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link

you never ilx

― Del Monte Young (ex machina), Friday, 23 February 2007 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link

vvvvvvv

― i wanna be able to change my name when i feels like it (gbx), Friday, 23 February 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link

cosigned.

― Stanley Cornwall (grady), Friday, 23 February 2007 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeh, it's cool doing it here. I just don't want every random ilxor coming along going "HEY WE NEED BLOG VIEW BACK AND WE NEED IT NOW!" on the real site. Once all the kinks in 1.0 are worked out, we'll do a proper poll/thread there to try and reach a decision about what needs doing most urgently and work out an order from there.

― stet (stet), Friday, 23 February 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

my youth

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 23 February 2007 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Will there be crying babies throwing tantrums on the new site too?

― 526 (526), Friday, 23 February 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the pink box

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 23 February 2007 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

the line that showed when no one had answered for a week.

― jelkino (jergins), Friday, 23 February 2007 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, the "days" breaks..

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 23 February 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

― The RealJTMod (Real JT Mod of Team Courage), Friday, 23 February 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

the line that showed when no one had answered for a week.

Talk about not knowing what you've got until it's gone! I hardly ever noticed that thing until now.

― PPlains (PPlains), Friday, 23 February 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

c on ts

― nklshs (nklshs), Friday, 23 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

dog latin

― heaven is not a truck, it's a series of tubes (a_p), Friday, 23 February 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Make sig lines look like they used to (or at least add a dash and not have the display name hyperlinked).

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Agreed. I don't like the italics in sig lines either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 23 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Image click thru when images are off, I miss you so.

(Also, images staying off due to remaining logged in - I miss you, too)

Poxy-fulishness, you are not missed, one bit.

― jaq (jaq), Friday, 23 February 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

An Ilx that works on my cell phone. Even if the login worked, which it doesn't (invalid page), the new answers page is too big :-(

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 23 February 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the essential nature of ILX is like a big party where there's music and dancing in one room, quiet conversation in another room, sitting around the TV roffling at Tom Coughlin in another room, etc. The code changes have been focused on creating a huge-ass party venue that will hold everyone who wants to get in without the floor collapsing, but the tradeoff is that everybody gets teleported to the front door outside the party every few minutes and has to come back in again (:30 sessions), and has to wear the same clothes to the party all the time (no changing screen names). Those are my two big issues, and I have a couple of smaller ones.

Still, I want to go on the record again thanking Keith and Stet (and Tombot and everyone else) for their work.

― Tech Support-Hose (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 25 February 2007 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I bet they're all doing blow in the Moderator Discussion Forum.

― PPlains (PPlains), Sunday, 25 February 2007 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link

yaow!

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Sunday, 25 February 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

later link

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 25 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

ire needs unregistered posting

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Sunday, 25 February 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.truechristian.com/img/911.jpg

― Del Monte Young (ex machina), Monday, 26 February 2007 08:36 (seventeen years ago) link

j0hn darn13113

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 February 2007 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Does nu-ILX still have teeny tiny font in the screen where you type in a post?

― The Real Dirty Vicar (The Real Dirty Vicar), Monday, 26 February 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

It shows how slow I am... when olde-ILX came back a while ago with some slightly different features ( ihttp://media.urbandictionary.com/image/icon/cockfight-2248.jpg not working, that handy thing for clicking on images rather than actually seeing them, etc.) I lazily assumed that that was nu-ILX. But I was wrong.

― The Real Dirty Vicar (The Real Dirty Vicar), Monday, 26 February 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

well... ihttp still doesn't work on nu-nu-ilx so all is well!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 February 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Working CSS so you don't always get a horizontal scrollbar in Firefox.

― caek (caek), Monday, 26 February 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't understand what's up with putting a Skipping 415 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all. link a quarter of the way into a thread. Is there a reason for that?

― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 28 February 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

It's half-way into the thread -- 50 posts from the start, 50 from the end. Because you can't have per-user settings on how many posts to show, the default has to be something reasonable. Also showing the first 50 posts lets googlers or people new to the thread decide if the want to read all of it.

The link needs to be way more prominent, however, and will be. There will also be a link at the top, to save you hunting around for it when you want the whole thread.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 28 February 2007 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link

There will also be a link at the top, to save you hunting around for it when you want the whole thread.

That sounds reasonable.

― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 28 February 2007 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the main thing I'm missing right now is clicking on a thread and having it go straight to "Unread messages."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

There will also be a link at the top, to save you hunting around for it when you want the whole thread.

Will there? The reason I put it there was to avoid people casually loading entire threads, as it holds on to connections for too long a time.

― KeefW (KeefW), Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

See, I think as long as you get back to the bit where you come across it once you click it, you don't need to know it's there until you come across it. What is annoying right now is clicking on a thread, reading through it, coming to "three messages hidden" and clicking on it and getting thrown back up the top and having to scroll through fifty messages to find the three you've missed (then finding they were just people going "cosign qft lol" etc). I think if you click and they appear and you don't have to scroll, them being there won't be a hassle.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I agree with that... It should scroll down.

― KeefW (KeefW), Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a bit of a nuisance to click on a thread from the archives, knowing that you want to read everything, and having to hunt around for the "skipping" link.

I mean, are there really people out there "casually" clicking on a "Skipping 1,239 messages" link just because it's at the top of the thread? If anything, I usually back away from a thread instead of clicking on that link when I see a number in the four-digits (i.e. that DMB thread.) It seems obtuse to me that I wouldn't know how large of a thread I've gotten into unless I read through fifty posts.

I have been using "Ctrl + F" to find the word "messages", but that, along with having to make sure all my browsers remember my password as well as a number of other battered features that you all are more than aware of by now, makes ilx less user-friendly which was kind of its magic in the first place.

― PPlains (PPlains), Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The thing I miss most was quietly waiting right here for me today. I am still logged in!!! I want to stay freakin logged in until I log out! I'm gonna stay in the sandbox and play cuz I just can't stand the nuilx login tripe and...

besides, the company is better here

*blows air kisses to all*

― Wiggy (wiggy), Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

HTML. Maybe, instead of brackets to format posts, something inna Wiki stylee? ''Italics'' '''Bold''' or however it works?

(Later) link otm.

The Skipping 12,049,484 messages in the middle of a thread I'm actually ok with, though I'd prefer to know that messages are being skipped when I first enter a thread. Otherwise, "Find as you type" on FF has been my favorite geir hoongra doonjra.

AVATARS!

― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a bit of a nuisance to click on a thread from the archives, knowing that you want to read everything, and having to hunt around for the "skipping" link.

I'm not sure I follow this... If you are reading it all, you will come across the link.

― KeefW (KeefW), Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

But it could be loading everything right from the start! That's especially useful if there are images to be loaded.

And placing it at the start is a better position for it anyway. I skim through some of the longer threads just to get an idea of what's going on, and I've caught myself skimming right past the skipping link.

― PPlains (PPlains), Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

It could be, but it's one of the reasons this ILX gets loads slower, because the server is loading 5,000 post strong threads every time someone clicks it and just wants to read the last two messages.

― KeefW (KeefW), Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

(One of many reasons, right enough)

― KeefW (KeefW), Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

But if you have your settings on "Show Only Last 100 Messages", that's not a problem, right?

― PPlains (PPlains), Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I know ILX isn't every other message board. I wouldn't want avatars or karma points. But at least with the others, the reader has some idea of how large the thread is from the outset, whether it's listed in the front menu or at the top of the thread.

I get what you're saying about lag times relating to the size of a thread being loaded, but if the link is included inside the thread, I really don't think it matters if it's prominant at the top or buried somewhere in the thread.

― PPlains (PPlains), Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Will there? The reason I put it there was to avoid people casually loading entire threads, as it holds on to connections for too long a time.

That's what you said! On one of the zillions of nuilx threads, at least :)

― stet (stet), Friday, 2 March 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe you picked me up wrong... If a link is easily visible, it will be clicked more than if it's not. I want people to prove their commitment before using valuable server resources!

― KeefW (KeefW), Friday, 2 March 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Why not try putting the link at the top of the thread and see how it goes? Either that or implement pagination. It truly is a usability irritation.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 2 March 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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