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  • Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

    I know. I've been back for about a minute and already I'm peltin' y'all.

    We have an astounding amount of emoticons that just add style and flavor to posts. Being capped at 5 ...well.....it stinks. I'm MUCH more smiley than that

    I understand the limits are there to protect the d/l and bandwidth time and is mostly intended for ginormous images, but really, people can just post back to back posts with 10 billion pictures if they want anyway, so the limitations don't really serve that purpose.

    I'd like to see the image limititations within posts increased (15+ maybe?). Several of us tend to write books when we post (Okay, maybe it's just me. ), and I like to use the emotes. I know lots of others do too, but we get cut short or have to adjust our writing styles to accomodate the limitations that don't really limit anything other than pics anyway.

    If the images are the main issue, couldn't we just encourage users to make more use of the photo gallery and link to it? It would certainly get more traffic to that area and open up the boards a bit.

    The other thing is that we have a bajillion emoticons - and that ROCKS. Trying to find what I want in that list is well, a nightmare. If I volunteer to organize and categorize them, would you put them up that way?
    Last edited by Brook; August 26, 2007, 08:21 AM.

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    Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

    Welcome back Brook. Traffic has been slow with you gone-lol. I will share your request. I think the organizing of them will be great let me get back to you.
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    • #3
      Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

      Heh, Lauren.

      I know. I know. I'm a pita - but I'm a pita with not just a suggestion, but the time to help out with the solution. That's gotta count for something, right?!!

      Thank you!!

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      • #4
        Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

        Brook you have always been good for backing up your suggestions. I'm glad you are back.
        ~Lauren~



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        • #5
          Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

          Lauren- Thanks! Me too!

          I've d/led the entire emote library here and will get busy organizing it. Not too familar with php coding, but I'm sure I can figure out enough to get the job done.

          I'll holler when that piece is handled.

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          • #6
            Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

            Hey Lauren- Any word on upping those limits?


            I'm working on figuring out the easiest way to sort the emotes we have and code them so y'all can just put it up. I'm learning there are problems with the shortcuts on several of them - examples:





            Can't do the last two or use the last two because the is set the way it is and it bars us from using anything that starts with : and p - make sense?

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            • #7
              Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

              Hey Brook! I have figured out "how" to do it, now I have to find out if I can!

              I suppose if we ALL sent Tom a "pretty please" pm??????????
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              • #8
                Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

                Originally posted by Brook

                The other thing is that we have a bajillion emoticons - and that ROCKS. Trying to find what I want in that list is well, a nightmare. If I volunteer to organize and categorize them, would you put them up that way?
                Wow, I do agree it is a pain in the @ss to find what you are looking for. Brook, that is so nice of you to offer to do this, I do hope they take you up on it! Thanks!
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                  Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

                  Bren- YOU ARE DABOMB!!!

                  Thank you for upping the image limits!!!! hehehehehehe

                  I'm working on organizing that smiley page.

                  Could use some php help though as I'm not sure how the coding all works (click on the smiley and it enters it in the post). There are some issues with some of the codes as is- lots of them need to be renamed to make using them more easy - and as I noted above, some don't work because of the way they're set up. I'm wondering if I take the time to sort through the 10 bajillion smilies and categorize them and put them in an HTML file, can someone pop them into a php file easily?

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                  • #10
                    Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

                    Brook,

                    I am sending this one on to Tom. Sheeshh.........you always seem to forget I am here for my LOOKS! (insert rolling eyes icon here).
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                    • #11
                      Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

                      Bea.U.ti.ful.

                      Thanks, Bren!

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                      • #12
                        Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

                        Yeah .... please organize them and I will try to add them in that order.
                        also know that all smilies can be added by tag like ususally ": something"
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                        • #13
                          Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

                          will this help load them faster? i swear, i've have zoom high speed with our cable company but the smilies load very slow.
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                          • #14
                            Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

                            Jimmie-

                            I'm looking at these this morning and there are a ton of redundant smilies (do we need 28 aliens?), duplicates, etc.

                            I'm going to clean them out, rename a ton of them, and organize them. If nothing else, I'd like to be able to see the page load with categories at the top that'll jump us down the page to where we want to be. I'm sure once they're cleaned out and we have fewer of them they'll load faster. I'm on cable too and they load slowly for me as well.

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                              Re: Hey admin! - Emoticon question/suggestion

                              i'm a huge xfile fan! aliens are good! lol

                              j/k. oh i am an x file fan but yeah, we really don't need 28 of them. just leave me a couple.
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