Let's Make Smilies!

[Buster's Uncle]

He resides in Sweden.

[Geo]

 

[Buster's Uncle]

-And is an indigene of the eastern Baltic...

[Geo]

 

[Buster's Uncle]

-And now we know why he wanted a hookah.

[Geo]

-And now we know why he wanted a hookah.

Maybe YOU do.
Of course, depicting an Ancient smoking a waterpipe isn't exactly historically correct.

[Buster's Uncle]

There's a picture of him doing it - so there.

[Buster's Uncle]

Anyway, something happened about a week or so ago in MSEdge that shaved a few pixels off the width of the forum page - which was just enough to bump Conqueror Marr onto a new line on the Reply page.  So I demoted the smilie to the popup - which bumped things around enough to ruin being able get the whole selection onscreen at once, which burned an hour or two of mine rearranging things, as I like to be able to just barely see all the smilies at once for user convenience.

Upshot of all this -and the series of very nice small x15 smilies I've made on requests from CFC people- I realize that a lot of the still smiles in the zoo really don't need to be 20x20.  Most would be super-easy, individually, to copy the face onto 15x15, and they'd definitely work better in the middle of text that way.

Collectively, it's a big job, all the GIMPing, replacing, and the resultant need to burn time rejiggering the order in the zoo -especially just plain finding all the files from the last 11 years- but I've already been one new smilie from having to do a lot of re-sorting in the Zoo for a long time, and this should free up at least a whole line's worth of space...

[Rusty Edge]

So does this mean that the server migration is complete and that this site should be comparatively stable again?

[Buster's Uncle]

I wish.  I've not been kept informed about that.

[Buster's Uncle]

Anyway, something happened about a week or so ago in MSEdge that shaved a few pixels off the width of the forum page - which was just enough to bump Conqueror Marr onto a new line on the Reply page.  So I demoted the smilie to the popup - which bumped things around enough to ruin being able get the whole selection onscreen at once, which burned an hour or two of mine rearranging things, as I like to be able to just barely see all the smilies at once for user convenience.

Upshot of all this -and the series of very nice small x15 smilies I've made on requests from CFC people- I realize that a lot of the still smiles in the zoo really don't need to be 20x20.  Most would be super-easy, individually, to copy the face onto 15x15, and they'd definitely work better in the middle of text that way.

Collectively, it's a big job, all the GIMPing, replacing, and the resultant need to burn time rejiggering the order in the zoo -especially just plain finding all the files from the last 11 years- but I've already been one new smilie from having to do a lot of re-sorting in the Zoo for a long time, and this should free up at least a whole line's worth of space...

Pretty much done - shaved a couple lines' height off the popup and was able to fit three more on the Reply page...

[Buster's Uncle]

 




 

[Buster's Uncle]

SO - I do think most of the size-reduced smilies took a quality hit, but a minor one maybe worth the space saved in the zoo and better line-spacing in posts.  The worst part I'm seeing, reviewing a lot of old posts lately, is how often one if the reduced ones is retroactively paired with one still 20x20 - they don't look right side-by-side.

So not a soul has reacted to all the size reductions, and I post to solicit feedback.  The membership's druthers tend to be the most important consideration when it comes to forum bells and whistles like that...