stet/keith question or whoever is in charge of code these days

ah, i see.

this has probably been asked 000's of times but...

what order are my bookmarks in? it seems so random.

I'm afraid it was over ten years ago I did it and I can't remember. My immediate reaction was that it would be coming out just exactly as it's stored in the database, but that's ordered by message board and then by the thread ID (just in order of the thread age), but they're not showing like that, so not sure. I could go back and look at the code, but if it's okay with you C, I can't be arsed at the moment.

UPDATE: I have just been arsed, and it gets the stuff from the database, which would be ordered by message board, but it then sticks them in to a hash table, which means that it's pretty much indeterminate what order they will be read out from.

If I'd stuck them in a list, rather than a hash table, then they would have come out in the same order as the database. It's that it is a hash table that makes it pretty much random. Can't remember why I did it that way, but there was most likely a reason, just lost in the mists of time and I really can't be arsed going and figured out why.

linkedhashmap would work, eh

so much arsing

haha! thanks Keith! Now I can forget about it rather than trying to make sense of it.

I’ve done the exact same thing in programming tbh

Yes, a LinkedHashMap would have done it, I guess, if I'd thought about ordering at all at the time, although I would also have had to beam eight years forward in time to bring it back to 2006 when I wrote it.

Keith otm

hmm yes true

i'm having problems posting to the weinstein thread - did i get threadbanned or... ?

so for awhile now i've been getting poxy fuled anytime i click on a link in a thread to another message or thread on ILX. specifically it takes me to a poxy fule page where i'm no longer logged in.

any idea why this might be occurring? i was going to try to clear my history and cache or w/e but preferred not to if i could avoid it.

ilxor.com / www.ilxor.com?

that did it -- Andrew you're a lifesaver

Sorry for downtime; back now

as always thanks for the work stet

^^^^ many thanks

Stet=best

Yer a star. The absence made my heart grow fonder as I realised how this place was the only thing keeping me sane on dull Fridays at work.

thank you stet

blessig u stet

thanks, stet

is there still a sandbox or a version thereof for when this happens?

who da man? stet da man!

if there was a prize for most times you fruitlessly went to ilxor.com AGAIN during the outage from sheer muscle memory i think i would win it

There is a sandbox, but it's hosted on the same box for cheapness reasons so it went down too. I did eventually remember to post a note at status.ilxor.com tho

I kiss you stet

PLZ TO MAINTAIN 5 NINES AVAILABILITY

has the fiddly bit that brings you to the first unread post in a previously visited thread broke

its been opening threads a good few pages up for me the past few days

also the little blobs that let you choose when voting in a poll have vanished for me (in chrome)

this doesn't matter as polls are bad (and you should feel bad) but they're also not working in the search function when you choose thread or post

great another non voter lecturing us

if polls improved ilx they'd be illegal

little blobs still not visible

is it bcz i upgraded to macOS MOHAVE on monday in which case may 'oumuamua return and rain death on us all

(sorry that was a turning-off-and-on-again-doesn't-work type report, not a why-hell-not-sorted-yet type whine)

SHOW 👏 US 👏 MARK’S 👏 BLOBS 👏

Blobgate

which browser, mark? and which style sheet? (as in the 'I Want to Change the Way The Site Looks...' option in preferences)

(they are called 'radio buttons' btw, because they work the way old radios worked - you can only have one button pressed at a time)

browser chrome, style sheet new.css

(i choose to call them BLOBS bcz i am a poet and plus the only radio i ever loved had KNOBS aka DIALS, which you turned)

(also the BLOBS on the style sheet prefs page are in fact currently visible)

The blob of a poet

I was watching an Imagine episode about David Hockney making a stained glass window for Westminster Abbey and he was talking about how we all see things differently and why we do. It made me think of Mark's blobs.

erm bloblessness this is still an issue for me, which makes the search function unuseable :(

i've realised that i can check how mine looks because don't have a working chrome login

you could try changing the stylesheet from new.css to something else, see if that helps (because it sounds like a css problem and that'll change the css).

i keep forgetting that style sheets exist

the idea that there are people out there viewing my handcrafted artisanal shitposts on anything other than new.css is... upsetting

It's not a CSS issue, I don't think. They're not showing correctly across all style sheets. I'll take a look.

it's ok BG everyone skips them

the idea that people read ILX on anything other than old.css is so profoundly unsettling that i literally can't dwell on it for longer than a few moments because otherwise i'd have to come to terms with the fact that people whose posts i know and cherish are actually living - indeed, have been living this whole time - in an uncouth sans-serif shadow dimension

wing ding ding tracer

wait new.css is san serif isn't it?

*horrible doubts yawn open at feet*