i love harry

[cries]

love you, boxers

nah mookie, never. the sandbox as it exists was born of desolation. that is its natural state. drop in, stay, forget, return—it’s here until it’s not. and even then the love and affection shall persist.

i will never forget

<3

have you guys really never met my dog?

rude

i love all the boxlers and i love deem’s beautiful dog and i love harry forever and am happy he’s remembered because he was a little corker

estela have you seen any Rotters lately

so many rotters, mookie, these are the salad days of rotters. we recently had two little neighbourhood dogs squabbling in our living room because they both thought our house was their personal annex and that harry’s old toys were theirs. he would have been outraged by their feeble antics.

hullo

oh no

snoopy come home (not you, rotters)

idgi

rip

not dead, just resting <3

hi

i saw it move

hi harbly

hi friends

<3 hi t

e are you ever coming to (eastern) america

i hope so!

hi

i miss you miss lxy, i hope you’re having More fun Every day

i am(sterdam), <3

<3

<3 nevertheless

hi

hoi

let op! drempels

i miss u

same

HI LXY

hi mookie :-)

Are you done here? Hello!

alas probably

anyway if you’re really rebuilding things from scratch then carry on; we’re all counting on you

I thought I had shown up just at the point you had all finally disappeared!

And yes, that is largely done, it’s just to let you know you will still be able to log into the sandbox with your current username/password.

ty keith <3

oh hiii, keith! <3

what is the done part though?

I dunno, I just joined in! I mean I hope you are not done!

I suppose I found it funny, I mean pretty soon, we’ll upgrade this to SPANKING NEW ILX and you lot will get a preview in advance of everyone else, so I just wanted to let you know that (a) it’s happening and (b) your existing usernames and passwords will work fine (or certainly should).

Why did I find it funny? Because as soon as I posted, you lot seemed to disappear for good!

we are indeed like the wind

in an awfully calm area, i mean

got it and thanks and very exciting and yes, like the wind, we always return <3

🤣 good work!

IT IS DONE.

But will anybody notice?

Who knows?

It’s taking them a while.

The new poll functions might be the thing that will attract them

Please feel free to start a poll.

I did, on Sandbox ILM. A rerun of one of our test ones.

Ah yes.

Maybe do one that starts immediately, so people can see that.

Sure. Which one would you like?

Miles?

Yes, could be.

OK, I’ll do that

Done

I Love Music

Best Miles Davis Albums without box sets poll

pfunkboy of the Sandbox

Hi dere, this poll will open for voting right away so you can see how it all works. Please rank your favourite albums in order. It’s that simple. Everyone will be able to see how you voted, so best to post your genuine favourites in order.

Below is a brief explanation of the era’s.

Voting date will be 4 weeks to allow anyone time to relisten to any of the albums.

I hope sandboxers will enjoy it as a listening project and get something out of it.

Happy Voting!

First Great Quintet & Prestige/Columbia transition (1955–1958)

(Hard bop, standards, formation of Miles as bandleader)

• ’Round About Midnight (1957)
• Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (1957)
• Relaxin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (1958)
• Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (1959)
• Steamin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (1961)
• Miles Ahead (1957)
• Milestones (1958)

Modal / Orchestral & Transitional Period (1959–1964)

(Modal jazz, large ensembles, early second quintet formation)

• Porgy and Bess (1959)
• Kind of Blue (1959)
• Sketches of Spain (1960)
• Someday…
(view thread)

It’s a multi option ranking poll (rather than single vote poll aka old ilx style)

haha I didn’t expect all that, I thought It would be just a link!

Yeah it gets a certain number of characters... I probably want to tweak that!

I hadn’t posted the url of a thread or poll before.

btw I only just noticed you can click on Recent Activity and its a new name for Site New Answers? How on earth did I miss that til now?

I appreciate a lot of the improvements here, Keith! if you’re able to add an option similar to the current “Hide Thread Info on New Answers Page,” I would love that.

I don’t want to be done here, but to be completely honest, the presence of reactions might push me off the board. just imagining all the snarky laugh emojis on politics threads. it will be like boomers on facebook.

Hey Crutis, well the basic idea there was that it might avoid a lot of pointless single messages. If it turns out to be negative, or certainly snarky, then we can no doubt figure out some way around that. Like not displaying them if you don’t want, or whatever.

And what is that hide thread info thing? I’m not sure I know about it... I don’t think I made it.

Or maybe I did... Who knows, it was 20 years ago!

It hides the part in square brackets when viewing the New Answers page.

So instead of:

The Afterglow Has Co$t Us Dearly, Toronto Blue Jays 2026... yadda yadda [Started by FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall) in March 2026, last updated twelve minutes ago by bruich, a stór (gyac) on I Love Baseball] 29 new answers

I just see:

The Afterglow Has Co$t Us Dearly, Toronto Blue Jays 2026... yadda yadda 29 new answers

I know it’s weird, but I find it better for my mental health when browsing ILX, lol

Yeah I did do that. Had completely forgotten. Yes I’m sure I can do something similar.

It is funny, it’s only at a time like this when you find out the things you did 20 years ago that people actually use. I mean no-one ever tells you that; they just tell you what they don’t like!

thanks Keith! and it really is an amazing job you’ve done!!

Stet too... There is a Zing to go along with it.

Do you feel as though it is an issue? I mean it’s really easy to ignore IMO. And it does seem unlikely as it makes much difference in terms of snarkiness, given ILXors are kind of world leaders in this field without it.

Also worth bearing in mind that there will be a lot of people who will also like it, and perhaps we can all learn to live together.

I have to admin I had 100% forgotten about “Hide Thread Info on New Answers Page”. It’s much better! I mean it’s not been a big deal as I barely look at the site, but yes I will find a way to make a simpler new answers-type page.

Just give me some time.

In a similar fashion, you might notice that the posts don’t show the name/time every post—they just show it if they change. Tried to reduce the visual noise if it wasn’t relevant.

I did notice, and I actually changed the setting lol. Love the customization options!

FYI—I switched to the dark mode setting, and some text fields display light text on a white background for me:

Yeah dark mode was not easy to do and I’m not surprised I have missed a few things. I’ll be able to sort it.

brand new world

I hope you like it!

Crutis, I fixed the dark mode thing (although I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a few others like that), and have put in a minimal board activity display, which does roughly the same as the old one does (well, it’s exactly the same, but the old one didn’t show snippets of new threads—I’ve left them in, but I can easily remove them if that’s better.)

It’s not on the sandbox yet, because it’s all new and it’ll take a few days to fix up stuff so that it’s easy for me to upload new versions to it, but it should be there by the weekend or so.