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See that little swining hammock kitty up there, having fun? A little cat told me, that the hammock kitty wants to do some cool changes in and around the house. New furniture? New colors? Maybe a new door? I dunno, the kitty is very sleepy, so we have to figure out what it wants! Earlier last year in a collective effort that, admittedly, mostly happened in QCS, we were able with the help of our tech master astral to update BYOB's stylesheet, get a special color on the spaceship and our new posting (and also mod) buttons you see right now! We thought about how we can further improve the posting home of ours visually, so the hammock kitty needs the help of the endless creativity of yobbers to make that happen. Here's what we had in mind, with no specific idea what to go for: A custom probation image Yes, this is possible! As you may know, our friends in CSPAM have one and while the kitty jail is great, everyone has those and I believe that we, as the most colorful forum of the universe, can challenge CSPAM's monopoly on custom probe images. As far as I know from our extremely chill tech department, this is not a major headache to accomplish and I do believe that those images just need to follow the regular guidelines of avatars (max 180x180px, max 150 kB - although it might be possible we can stretch the file size a bit, I'm gonna ask!) and have to be GIF, PNG or JPG. Of course, they need to be work-safe and I am very sorry to tell you, yes, that does include nude spawn as well as a bra-less fully sexual snail with human titties. Thread Tags A few months ago we talked about tags in the mod forum and Cyrano told us about them and how many it is. The answer is: A lot. Like, 800 or so a lot. He posted an image that we are free to share and because it is so many I will not post them here but instead ask you to follow the link to this thread by Julias in ADTRW that has them all embedded as preview images. (obviously note that this is a screenshot and most of these tags move in some way or blink or whatever). They did a vote for them over there and we can do it in a similar way if you want, or just throw in suggestions and see what is popular or something. Anyways, I already sneaked in some tags a few months ago and you can see all of the currently available ones when making a new thread (which you should do right now anyways if you ask me). I would open up discussion for anything you want to get rid of and any new ones you'd like to add from the list in the link above. Please note that adding tags is quite some effort for the admins to do because radium was not a friend of convenient solutions, so if you guys end up requesting 500 new tags and removing all others, uhhh, the admins might punish me by cleaning the waste dump or something. I think our current tags are mostly fine, but we could cut some of those we never use and add a bunch of new ones in exchange, but I'm very open for your ideas here! Adding new custom thread tags not listed in the link is also possible, so if you have a fun idea let's do it, but since we already have hundreds available and uploading them is a lot of work for admins, let's not overdo it. I know how crazy you guys can be  Further improvements to the BYOB stylesheet Do you think the hammock cat should swing more in the middle, or in the right corner? Should we get more or other colors into BYOB in whatever way? Do you consider the fact that the post thread button during thread creation is not animated a warcrime? Do you want a million ants crawling in the background at all times? Let's hear your ideas of any kind! I have no idea how possible or impossible stuff you guys come up with may be, I'll have to consult with astral and Jeffrey for almost anything here to see if it's a) possible and c) without major coding work that they have to spend on duct taping the rest of SA, but we can create a list of ideas or even examples and get stuff done either now or somewhen in the future! For all of these things, except thread tags, it would be necessary that we can get our grand BYOB artists to actually make the stuff we want to add or change, too, because astral is not an actual artist and Jeffrey is a very busy bitcoin billionaire, so either way we can't expect them to work for us, but they can add or change stuff for us that we made. So I'd say, let's hear some ideas and let's see what we can get done to improve little kitty's house! Goons Are Gifts fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Jan 21, 2021
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if anyone has a funny idea without ability to make it i will try my best to help, so even if you have a very half baked idea just post
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Yes, everyone  anything you got, feel free to use this thread for ideas or discussion or whatever, we need all hands on hammock kitty's belly hereFor example, one idea we toyed around with for a brief moment in the mod forum was a probe image related to the hammock kitty. While obviously it is unacceptable to put this kitty behind bars, we can have something involving the swinging kitty and abandon the jail motive entirely.
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Jan 20, 2021 19:27
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i got an idea for a probe image where it's something about being on vacation instead of in cyberprison
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Jan 20, 2021 19:30
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i know from cspam that the quote text can be changed - something other than Alnilam posted: I hope the probation text can also be changed cause "User went on vacation for this post" and "On vacation for 6 hours" would be lovely along with a new probe av |
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Jan 20, 2021 19:36
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Oh poo poo right, I completely forgot about quote texts! I think astral mentioned somewhere that the probe message is also not entirely unchangable and I hope I remember correctly because that would rule
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Jan 20, 2021 19:49
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nut posted:i got an idea for a probe image where it's something about being on vacation instead of in cyberprison example of the current quote text and also throwing my friend nut a bit of that sweet sweet yellow
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Jan 20, 2021 19:57
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"i appreciate that $user posted" "my rad pal $user said"
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Jan 20, 2021 20:06
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Hammock kitty needs boots and a hat with a feather, we realized this during christmas movies, Puss n' Boots is public domain and objectively 10% cooler than a naked cat. |
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Jan 20, 2021 20:20
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what about 'user is too high too poast in byob for x hours'?
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Jan 20, 2021 20:21
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Stoner Sloth posted:what about 'user is too high too poast in byob for x hours'? although lol i fear that it might reinforce the false belief that yob is for stoners. my evidence is that it is a belief that kept me from posting here for a couple years lol
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Jan 20, 2021 20:32
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How about "User is chilling out" and it's an MSpaint of a frozen yelling person?
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Jan 20, 2021 20:39
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heather papps is on vacation for 18 more hours e: 
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Jan 20, 2021 21:24
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lol great stuff so far
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Jan 20, 2021 21:26
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also the cd-i style link tag would be amazing
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Jan 20, 2021 21:31
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could the probe av title be a gif of a sign that is kinda dangling and says "on vacation" and then the pic can just be a cat chilling like the ones in hp's pics
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Jan 20, 2021 21:34
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biosterous posted:"i appreciate that $user posted" I like both of these alot
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Jan 20, 2021 22:14
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nut posted:could the probe av title be a gif of a sign that is kinda dangling and says "on vacation" and then the pic can just be a cat chilling like the ones in hp's pics  / e:they are janky but i like it? tryin' to match the og hammock kitty aesthetic
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Heather Papps posted:
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Jan 20, 2021 22:17
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I like how the cats are clearly on vacation but also kinda look like they're thinking about what they've done
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Jan 20, 2021 22:17
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alnilam posted:I like how the cats are clearly on vacation but also kinda look like they're thinking about what they've done that maine coone is not on vacation. they are on the run.
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Heather Papps posted:that maine coone is not on vacation. they are on the run. 
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Heather Papps posted:
these r amazing imo the first reads best
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Jan 20, 2021 22:46
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Heather Papps posted:
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Jan 20, 2021 22:55
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nut posted:imo the first reads best in an extremely byob set of circumstances i can't find the source image i used for this one. it was a google image search for "vacation cat" or something to that effect, and i resized it and flattened it so i could lazy copy/paste it into imgur, so i lost the data for everything outside the 180 pixels square. since realizing this i have spent maybe an hour trying to retrace my clicks to bring me to this image again but i've failed and tineye has some bad news  "tropical vacation cat" thanks history! if anyone wants a crack at this or to save for personal use  Heather Papps fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Jan 20, 2021
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Jan 20, 2021 23:00
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i wouldn't mind taking a crack at some thread tags if anybody has some ideas
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add alt text to the cat so if you hover over it and pet it with the mouse cursor a little "purr purr purr" pops up imo also we definitely need some kind of special celebratory stylesheet for August 1 so that everyone knows it's bob harrison day and to honor the lil kitty barnold fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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For thread tags you can go ahead and browse through Julias' list here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3952515&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 We can add any of those and sort out any of those we already have, admins can just change them in byob from there
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Jan 20, 2021 23:35
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The butt ox needs to be a thread tag if it is not already
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Glutes Are Great posted:For thread tags you can go ahead and browse through Julias' list here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3952515&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 I think this list is incomplete. I don't see  anywhere.
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i will help in any way i can. i also want to put on the record that we need a special CSS for Bob Harrison Day on august 1 |
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Prof. Crocodile posted:I think this list is incomplete. I don't see we need
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Heather Papps posted:
Brøthër these are very good |
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Jan 21, 2021 02:46
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Heather Papps posted:heather papps is on vacation for 18 more hours the homemade ice cream bucket speaks 2 me. Looks like a white mountain™ number |
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Kief Richards posted:
I can't say I disagree. Alright lemme ask the tech gurus about how possible this is!
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Heather Papps posted:
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cruft posted:These are amazing. I might even try to get probated for the first time just so I can have one. Jeez, just once? You need to get more ornery, friend! We've been forums members roughly the same length and I've been probed eight times by now, and I'm a novice! Edit- also agreeing that HP's is a powerful slinging and I'm feeling the urge to get probed again too. BoldFrankensteinMir fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jan 21, 2021
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Alright, in terms of thread tags I found out that uploading them is just an admin and not a coding thing, so custom new thread tags (in theory also the BYOB tag on the forum index) can be made and uploaded by the admins. So yeah go nuts!! Except not a crazy amount of new tags please, we don't want to drown the admins in work for something that only benefits byob, when we already have 800 available 
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a double-byob tag for threads that are more byob than the byob tag also, the link one that already exists
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