Member birthday icons

[wide_worlds_joy]

Title:
Member birthday icons

Area:
Member icons

Summary:
Icon for Birthday members and notification of important dates

Description:
How about a script that will pull birthdays off the database and append that to the weekly email? Perhaps (if you are going to install virtual gifts like LJ has), do a thing where it gives you a little heart or cake next to their user ID on their birthday? And then you just say "Happy Birthday" just before the append.

And then do something similar for any other dates that are important, like anniversaries and so on...

I mention this because a friend on my flist had posted about a birth in his family.

<user name="denise"> responded with this:

That sounds like a really neat idea, actually! This post is more designed for people with DW-related news and announcements to let me know about them so I can include them in the weekly [site community profile] dw_news updates (which I totally need to write for this week and I am so late with it, auuugh, but it has been Fight With Tax Forms Week and I am going crazy), but I would totally love it if you could suggest this through our official suggestions process, because I think that could be a really awesome feature.

We do have "build a calendaring system" (so like what you mean with the anniversaries and the like, the system would notify you about things you told it to notify you about when that date rolls around) as one of our suggested projects for our Google Summer of Code application, so it is something we've been tossing around, but I don't think there's ever been a formal suggestion about it, and I'd love to see what would come up in the discussion as things people would want it to do.

Poll #2465 Member birthday icons

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Should be implemented as-is.
6 (14.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (7.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
23 (54.8%)

(I have no opinion)
9 (21.4%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.4%)

Comments

[nacbrie]

I think this would be quite nice if implemented as a V-gift (if V-gifts are being introduced). Say it was Jane's birthday, I could buy her a normal birthday cake V-gift (which shows up on her profile), or I could give her a cake-picture-after-user-name-V-gift (nacbrie ). That way, if the giftee doesn't want it they can refuse it (like how V-gift options were being discussed previously), and you're not going into the options UI issue.