New BYC Smileys - Suggestions & Submissions Needed

[Buff Hooligans]

I've never used a smiley. My eyes tend to slide over them and they don't register as well as a written word.

I also avoid them because I've heard they are spyware?

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Good ideas to remove ones that are duplicates!

Regarding space: It isn't really an issue of disk space / server space as much as an issue with clutter and download speed:

Every time someone hits "reply" all the smileys are downloaded and hidden. The more smileys, especially animated ones, the longer it takes to load the reply page. This is really a bad experience for our dialup friends.

Also, I don't think anybody likes to have to scroll past 50 unused / random smileys to find one that they really use a lot.

Remember, there are TONS of sites that have millions of smileys and give you the BBCode to copy and paste into the forum. If you have a personal favorite, you can use the code from those sites, or upload the image to your "Uploads" tool here on BYC and always have access to them.

Regarding spyware: All the smileys that we have listed are simple images and there isn't really a way that they would be spyware. In general, having smileys is no more of a potential problem than browsing any website on the internet.... they are just a bunch of JPG and GIF images.

 

[TheOLDNewChick]

&

could go...

 

[Guinea Goonie]

Hello Nifty, first off thank you for your time and effort on this forum. Being a computer junkie, I know what it takes to do this.

Smiles to be rid of IMHO:

:|

and:

Love the popcorn one.

 

[Reinbeau]

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Oh, no, I use Jumpy all the time. I agree there are too many mad/angry ones.

Some of the static ones get used regularly, but I don't see these used very often:

Agree on all but the rolleyes, that's another one I see used often, and I use it myself quite a bit.​

 

[Farmer Kitty]

I've used jumpy in the incubating/hatching and I like the rolleyes one too!

I do agree there are to many angry ones.

 

[the1much]

:aww

all junk

need to be added,,, but MOST important add should be

 

[farmgirlie1031]

:|

are boring. I love the ones that actually move.

You also need duck, sheep, hog, and cattle smiles.

Such as:

Could be the new mad

These are just a few of the many you could maybe add.

 

[Chicabee19]

I love the "floppy tongue idiot" and "rolling eyes" smiley out of all those static ones. Some of them I just don't get.

We do need to keep some kind of Happy smiley and a Sad smiley, whatever kind you decide on.

I'd really like to see a chagrined or embarrassed smiley!

If you could find fowl-based smileys to replace all of the non-fowl-based smileys, I think everyone would love that!

 

[Whirlwind]

I don't know if there is such a thing but after looking at Miss Prissys Blue plate special I think we could use a drooling smiley.