SF Animated Smiley Asks & Talk

[I_waste_everything]

. .. Just a few of the roster of animated smilies that this forum offers.

The only other websites I know of to offer in-built animated smiley reactions sindon the original Primal Carnage forums (a dinosaur game I find out about in 2008), and DeviantArt, in its early shape in the 2000's before it will be remade to be sleeker in the later "2010's" onward.

And I don't recall whether they offer, or will offer, *exactly* the same animated smiley roster.

I'll have assumed hitherto that these smilies are all part of some pre-existing package that comes with the framework that SuicideForum licenses. Still, I ask now: Are any of these smilies unique to SuicideForum.com? That is, as opposed to being taken from a general-purpose package. And, if so, which ones?

I hope this thread might be the beginning of talk about these animated beings, rather than a one-and-done ask.

 

[Citizen Insane]

The Chat Room has many more emotes (almost 800 ~) and lots of unique ones too!

https://www.suicideforum.com/community/ac/emotes.php

Is a personal/unique emote from the chat room, named after my first name (Kenneth) It was made by @Megan.

I just love using the polar bear emote:



(The original one!, edited that one to include the polar bear)

 

[LumberJack]

. .. Just a few of the roster of animated smilies that this forum offers.

I hope this thread might be the beginning of talk about these animated beings, rather than a one-and-done ask.

This is a fabulous idea for a thread. Thanks for creating it!

@Citizen Insane , is there a trick to getting emotes that are in chat, but not also in the smilies menu in the forum editor (the menu at the top when composing a reply)?

I had tried to get a random (ok it is what I gravitated to, for... reasons lol) emote in, and the *emote doesn't work, but copy-pasting it as an image through the Insert-Image command in the editor works... as in the below:

*teddy

I'm sure we both should be dealing with bigger priorities, but this has actually been a question on the back burner of my mind for a little while. Cheers!

 

[Angie]

Just a bit of emote history.

SF has been around a LONG time. Our emote collection was formed when users requested an emote be added, and volunteers coded it for us, so that is why you have emotes with usernames. Over the years the collection expanded. I think we have over 1,000 now in total.

We no longer do custom emotes for people because it simply became too clunky a process to support.

@LumberJack the reason why the chat and forum collections differ is the emotes had to be added to each system separately and didn't always make it across. Chat has always been a separate add-on both now with Xenforo and before with vBulletin.

I hope this little bit helps

 

[I_waste_everything]

Just a bit of emote history.

SF has been around a LONG time. Our emote collection was formed when users requested an emote be added, and volunteers coded it for us, so that is why you have emotes with usernames. Over the years the collection expanded. I think we have over 1,000 now in total.

We no longer do custom emotes for people because it simply became too clunky a process to support.

@LumberJack the reason why the chat and forum collections differ is the emotes had to be added to each system separately and didn't always make it across. Chat has always been a separate add-on both now with Xenforo and before with vBulletin.

I hope this little bit helps

Very much so. Thank you for this. I have follow-up asks.

For now, just this one: The banner of smileys to choose from I get when I click to post in a thread shows about 47 options, at least on-screen. If SF has over 1000 smileys in total, where should I go to find the rest?

 

[Angie]

The majority of the emojis are available in the chat room.

Here is a link to the emojis:
https://www.suicideforum.com/community/ac/emotes.php

 

[LumberJack]

We no longer do custom emotes for people because it simply became too clunky a process to support.

I hope this little bit helps

I am not imagining this is feasible, but if there were past volunteers who were able to code this, then there might be a way to port over all the smiles from chat into the forums. I think I could pull that off given my professional experience. I am not talking about ongoing maintenance, but more like a copy-paste from one code branch to the other. If it’s in javascript, I can figure it out without much help, and if another web language, then I can figure it out using the documentation.

The higher level questions, though are:
Would it be a good idea (costs vs benefits) from the admin and the user experiences?
If so, would we want to port over every single one, or a subset so as not to overwhelm the end user with 1k options?
Is the risk associated with giving LJ admin credentials worth it? I mean, I can tell you I'm not a bad guy, but then again, that's exactly what a bad guy would say, too.

 

[Angie]

@LumberJack so very kind of you to offer your expertise and time.

I'll PM you.