Can we get back our old smileys?
 

The ones we have now are so bland compared to the old ones. Who else agrees with me?

This guy.

I heart MC... :)

I'm with ya.

I'd love to have the old smileys back.

...and some other smilies as well... pretty please?

I agree, these are way too boring.

We should have more smilies anyway...

i also want them back. I was successful in my push to get them back before we upgraded.

I'll join the crusade !

Someone posts a poll...

Please!

Bring back the QOTM while you're at it...

Great job Vexroid !

:)....:( <----------THEY NEED COLOR!!!

....

bring back the color!

:)

For a second I thought we had color:(

I agree. I have no clue how to do it. Contact Simms, Shorty, or Ryan S.

FOBL has a huge repository of smileys, so I know Simms has the knowledge on how to set this up.

..and he has the access over here.

ask Illinifan as well, as our BDK board has too many smileys(all colored) to count...having the ones BDK forum has would be a dream...

Now that's the good stuf...

I liked the old more purple than blue sad face though...

I think at a place like this the current amount of smilies is enough, but it would be easy enough to bring back the old smilies (last time, they all imported correctly but the sad face was still a vb default, oddly enough).

I think it gets ridiculous at a big message board like OOTPDev seeing the 56kpowaa on the main list of smilies, and making me have to click to find how to use the simple tongue smilie. On private boards or boards with less traffic, I think that is great fun, but here, I say we go back to the old smilies but keep them at the same amount.

Also, I for a while tried to figure out how to add custom smilie sets to each style - to no avail. For instance, potato smilies for the spuds style, black and white smilies for the Day at the Office, etc.

Word.

Get to work, Shorty... :)

Then get us some color!;)

Any progress on this? I thought you were going to fix this for us, Shorty?

I feel like Batman seeing a big Bat Signal in the sky....

Why? Did Batman not see the Bat Signal for 6 days, well after someone else had already saved the day?

Batman has been away since last Thursday, regrettably. :(

I'm gonna keep bumping this until someone takes care of it...

What is up with this???

If I can get in touch with Ryan S they can be up by today.

Anything I can do to help?

I am getting a failure to write to directory error when trying to upload through the admin panel, I think it is because of the FTP access being blocked off. I can send you the smilies.

try that

benlewis AT bellsouth.net?

Word.

you have some electronic mail then

You have some back. It may be a bit. Only one of my machines has the FOFC FTP info, and my wife is using it at the moment. Plus, on this lazy snow day, I'm lounging on the couch with the laptop. You're gonna make me have to get up and upload this??? ;)

You asked for it, pard'na.

I know. Just messin' wit' ya.

Me too man, me too. :)

I think I may know why we had the problems the last time you gave me something to upload. Is the "new" board (since the vbulletin upgrade) on a different server? I think the FTP info I have is for another server. I don't see a directory structure that matches the directory you want me to upload it to. I'll need to get that info from Ryan S. My FTP info works for uploading the front page, but I'm guessing that this board software is on a different server entirely.

Just to break up the Shorty/SD lovefest... damn man, rise up to your woman and let her know her place... You need to be HWMBO.

And can we get some smilies with monekys on them? Monkeys are funny.

Bumped again. Appreciate the hard work boys. Now let's get this sucka finished! :)

Damn, where did I put that trout signal?

Done.

Now get to work on the QOTM.

No.

Damn. That was cold. Not even a "Hell, no." Just plain "No."

We can't even make this an optional feature?

I miss QOTM too, Franky Frank.

Don't force him to get his shotgun down off the rack...

I believe the next line is....

What part of no didn't you understand?

Dang....you beat me to it.

I miss it as well:(

Time to bring this thread out of the mothballs...

LOL

You whiny bitch! ;)

My smilies aren't working...I can't click on the picture anymore, but if I type it in, it works :( What's going on?????

Yup

I agree.

They are working again :)

They're working again? I still have the "new" ones

SI

I had no idea Shorty had such manlove for Carson Daly.

Yup, still have the ugly new ones... :(

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder:)

Oooh...you just lost some luster, Robbie...

Luster ain't my thang...i'm a bit rough around the edges:)

bump

If it's okay with the PtB, I'll see if I can grab a few minutes this afternoon and add our collection from FOBL.

Gracias, Simms. Any progress on this?

Yeah, I'll get 'em up shortly.

Done.

:cheers:

That's a lot of smilies! :eek:

Is it just me or has anyone else been transfixed by the googly eyed one? :googlyeyes:

Remind me never to post here drunk again -I'll be staring at that for hours :D

New smilies kick ass!:champ: :heheh: :lsvader: :cussing: :protest:

:gimp:

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Hey, there's even one of me waving my national flag around! :surrender:

Hmmm, it seems that even though we have new smilies, the time stamp bug survived :samuray-chino:

As I noted in the upgrade thread, the new smilies have added a Maximum Football feel to the FOFC.

:censored:

After an initial enthusiasm, I concur with KCC - already they are beginning to cheapen the FOFC experience.

More smileys doesn't necessarily mean more character - one of the things I like about FOFC is the 'cleanliness' of the boards, posts generally looked and felt like they are made by adults rather than 5 year old kids looking for a reason to use a cool new animation.

I hereby place a vote of protest (look, no 'protest' smiley, even though it is staring at me on the right, tempting me to click, the brazen hussy... sorry... where was I?) and log a vote for a return to the old smileys, as the thread asked for (with the possible addition of the banging the head against a brick wall ;) )

:protest:


:ashamed:

Huh? I wonder if the board was down because of these new smileys. If that was the case, it was well worth it. :clap:

I agree. Bring back the classic smileys, and only them.

These smilies :censored: kick ass!!

:skull: :knight: :bravo: :samuray-chino: :musicos: :champ:

And my favorite: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint:

Your honour, I present exhibit A for the prosecution...

No offense, but if this becomes the norm it'll be hard to find any text within the smilies. If I wanted to see stuff like this I'd watch Cartoon Network. For a 'text sim board' to have OTT animated smilies kinda goes against the basis of it's existence doesn't it?

Awww...don't get your shorts all in a bunch. :nyahnyah:

We were definitely missing a few key ones before. But these are definitely overboard. A smiley should help make the point of the message in the text, not be there just to be cute. Nyahnyah, the medal stand, protest, clap, censored, and I surrender are all good additions. Band playing music, samurai sword chop, punker, skull, not so much.

I agree with the representative from Rigel 7.

I think the smiley overusage will die down once the novelty wears off. However, I wouldn't be sad to see them pared down either.

There are people on a text-sim message board that object to animated smileys. What a surprise.

LOL...

Man...what would the reaction have been if I'd added *all* the ones I had? :)

(this is less than half)

Now that they're up, it's easy enough for Ryan or SkyDog to remove individual smileys, so I'll leave it to them to gauge public opinion and determine the appropriate course of action.

The smileys actually slow the board down noticeably for me.

I doubt it will be the norm. They're cute, they're new, so why not use them? Now granted, I went a little overboard with mine, but heck, I just wanted to get it off my chest, that is all.

That sucks. Anyone else experiencing slow-downs?

:lurking: