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Re: Official Pixelation Skin!

Reply #80 on: February 29, 2016, 11:18:55 am
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Are there others people feel strongly about adding?
Lovely! ... Well, almost afraid to suggest it since deviantArt is not exactly the place of choice to be when it comes to Pixel Art but it seems as the scope of this place has already widened with low-poly stuff and sketches and lots of people also sharing traditional art, there could be interest in linking to deviantArt profiles as well.

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Re: Official Pixelation Skin!

Reply #81 on: February 29, 2016, 12:21:48 pm
I agree with having deviantArt in there. Maybe a general "stream" button? You'd be able to fill in an url to Twitch, Youtube, Picarto or whatever?

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Re: Official Pixelation Skin!

Reply #82 on: February 29, 2016, 01:53:02 pm
This is not very important, but perhaps making it so the Offline and Online icons look different enough and more evident could be good.

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Re: Official Pixelation Skin!

Reply #83 on: February 29, 2016, 02:55:22 pm
Removed: AIM, ICQ, YIM, MSN
added: Twitter, Skype, Pixeljoint

Are there others people feel strongly about adding?

I'd be really happy about adding "Deviantart" too

Regarding social networks (just from a modern standpoint):
Facebook might also make a lot of sense for many people, just considering the size.
Tumblr and Instagram might be important too
« Last Edit: February 29, 2016, 02:57:40 pm by Cyangmou »
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Re: Official Pixelation Skin!

Reply #84 on: February 29, 2016, 09:25:58 pm
Rather than adding dedicated Tumblr, Instagram, etc fields, how about just having more "website" slots? I'm sure that should be fairly easy to implement, at least compared to my other suggestion (textbox of network-username pairs). For IM programs, protocol-specific fields allow the forum to build specialised program-launching links, but for social networks like Facebook and Instagram where it'll just be linking to a webpage, there's no benefit in having a dedicated field, those can all be treated as regular websites. The one website slot that's there already lets you set a URL and a Title. For social networks, people could put the network name as the title (e.g. "Facebook").

The lone website slot made sense back when many people had a personal website and before social networks, but nowadays most people have a number of "websites" in the form of social network pages like dA, FB, etc.
« Last Edit: March 01, 2016, 12:23:57 am by eishiya »

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Re: Official Pixelation Skin!

Reply #85 on: March 01, 2016, 08:06:45 am
I hear ya eishiya, but currently there's not an easy way of doing that so I'd rather not bother.  I did add a few more though; Tumblr, Facebook, and DeviantArt.

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Re: Official Pixelation Skin!

Reply #86 on: March 01, 2016, 04:51:19 pm
That's curious. I would've imagined adding N generic website slots would be easier than adding N specific-website slots with icons. I haven't administrated Simple Machines though, so I wouldn't know. Hopefully a modification for it will come along.

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Re: Official Pixelation Skin!

Reply #87 on: March 01, 2016, 07:21:10 pm
To be honest, I don't really see the point. If all else fails, just throw it into your signature..?
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Re: Official Pixelation Skin!

Reply #88 on: March 01, 2016, 08:06:16 pm
to give a little context, adding additional link slots comes built-in with SMF. That's what I'm using to add new icons.  I can also add generic text slots, but these have a number of issues:
  • you'd ideally want two input values for a generic slot - one for the label, one for the URL itself (so it shows up like this: My Website Link).  SMF only supports one input. I could make a mod for more inputs, but that would be a lot more work compared to just using the feature that already works.  ROI is very low
  • If we just allow for one input, the url, they can easily be quite long and overflow the horizontal space that's available under the avatar and look really ugly
  • We could allow for BBCode so you can make your own link with a label, but now it has the problem of people abusing that slot for unintended things like images and whatnot

And like Crow said, if you really really want a text link, just put it in your signature

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Re: Official Pixelation Skin!

Reply #89 on: March 01, 2016, 08:36:26 pm
great work Dan  :y:
think it's fine as it is, and if someone misses a specific comunity he always can ask in this thread or pm you directly I guess.
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