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dw_suggestions2011-01-21 09:58 am
User Icon changes
Title:
User Icon changes
Area:
Styles
Summary:
Paid feature where the user can change the person icon next to their username.
Description:
Recently LJ implemented the ability to change the little icon next to a username site-wide. I'd like to see the same here, but with a few improvements.
First, free to paid accounts. It might just prompt people to buy a paid account.
Second, the image has to be hosted on another site, so it is not clogging up the servers of DW. Or an icon slot can be "sacrificed" to host it here.
Third, only small icons, 17x17 will be allowed.
This will be just a little thing to give some more color to DW. May pull some of LJ's customers over as well.
In execution it will look like this:
<a href='http://daven.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='http://www.rosequoll.com/lj/bdragon.gif' alt='userinfo' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align:bottom;border:0;'></a><a href='http://daven.dreamwidth.org'><b>daven</b></a>
I got this from a lady who had this on LJ, and I think it's a cool idea.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
11 (12.9%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
13 (15.3%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
47 (55.3%)
(I have no opinion)
14 (16.5%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)
no subject
Regardless, it's an interop problem regardless, as even before they introduced custom heads, linking to a Comm off site still gave the userhead--that's one of the reasons why I set my CSS on my journal to replace the userhead with the pencil icon--I think off site links should use the favicon of the site unless we can easily distinguish between all potential off site types, which we can't and I don't think is worth doing.
For this site, it'd only be an interop problem for other sites running our codebase, nothing to do with LJ.