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!
you never ilx
vvvvvvv
cosigned.
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.
my youth
Will there be crying babies throwing tantrums on the new site too?
the pink box
the line that showed when no one had answered for a week.
Oh yeah, the “days” breaks..
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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.
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Make sig lines look like they used to (or at least add a dash and not have the display name hyperlinked).
Agreed. I don’t like the italics in sig lines either.
2x
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.
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 :-(
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.
I bet they’re all doing blow in the Moderator Discussion Forum.
yaow!
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Does nu-ILX still have teeny tiny font in the screen where you type in a post?
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.
well... ihttp still doesn’t work on nu-nu-ilx so all is well!
Working CSS so you don’t always get a horizontal scrollbar in Firefox.
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?
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.
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.
I think the main thing I’m missing right now is clicking on a thread and having it go straight to “Unread messages.”
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.
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.
Yeah, I agree with that... It should scroll down.
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.
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*
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!
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.
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.
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.
(One of many reasons, right enough)
But if you have your settings on “Show Only Last 100 Messages”, that’s not a problem, right?
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.
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 :)
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!
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.