Updates to forum (ongoing)

[Crumpets]

The problem is that this forum's avatar selection has long been based on sets, with each distinct region having multiple different versions based on party. To add another categorization would make it too complicated to manage. I don't really know how I would go about doing it even. The entire avatar selection format is based on literal file folders, like those you use on Windows. The avatar files each go into folders.  And the forum only supporters one level of folders, meaning I can't add folders-within-folders and thus cannot categorize the way you're suggesting without major modifications.

However we go about this, it has to work with the system as it currently exists.

That makes sense. I vote those of us making new avatars prioritize existing countries where we could conceivably have members from and then down the road, maybe we can get a little crazier if adding those hasn't caused any major problems.

[Crumpets]

Moldova avatars:

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

I'm working on the former Yugoslavian countries' avatars, I'll post them in a few days

[Virginiá]

The problem is that this forum's avatar selection has long been based on sets, with each distinct region having multiple different versions based on party. To add another categorization would make it too complicated to manage. I don't really know how I would go about doing it even. The entire avatar selection format is based on literal file folders, like those you use on Windows. The avatar files each go into folders.  And the forum only supporters one level of folders, meaning I can't add folders-within-folders and thus cannot categorize the way you're suggesting without major modifications.

However we go about this, it has to work with the system as it currently exists.

That makes sense. I vote those of us making new avatars prioritize existing countries where we could conceivably have members from and then down the road, maybe we can get a little crazier if adding those hasn't caused any major problems.

I would note with this explosion of avatars that if we ever want to add new parties, it's going to be much harder.

[Grassroots]

How would people feel about avatars for major Indian nations/reservations? I generally agree we don't want to go too overboard with historical or extremely local avatars. But this is one I'd be reasonably cool with, especially since it does have political implications what kind of jurisdiction one lives in, in a way that congressional districts or counties don't.

I think the biggest concern, as others have noted, is we don't want to have a list of thousands of avatars for new users to sort though. Would it be possible under the "Forum Profile Information" menu to have nested options that would make the list less daunting? For example, having an initial list for "US States and Territories, Other Countries and Territories, Historical Entities," and within each of these, have more thorough lists? Just a thought.

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[jake_arlington]

Can we just go back to the original 50 states, Canadian provinces, add in maybe a dozen or so major foreign countries? These exotic places that are getting added, not to mention historical avatars, go way too far.

[Virginiá]

I for one am glad to see the community engaged and contributing their creativity and free time to bettering the forum. Personally I'd love to see more, not less of that. Change can be good, and in this case, I think it is.

[Crumpets]

Can we just go back to the original 50 states, Canadian provinces, add in maybe a dozen or so major foreign countries? These exotic places that are getting added, not to mention historical avatars, go way too far.

Lol, you have a freaking Prussia avatar. Let us have our fun.

[morgankingsley]

I cant even imagine what it would be like for new users to try and place a avatar now with a billion options

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

I cant even imagine what it would be like for new users to try and place a avatar now with a billion options

CTRL F + "name of ountry" or "2-letter code", super hard TBH

[KaiserDave]

Can we just go back to the original 50 states, Canadian provinces, add in maybe a dozen or so major foreign countries? These exotic places that are getting added, not to mention historical avatars, go way too far.

Not even every foreign country? Atlas should be global

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

Former Yugoslavia part 1 (Bosnia and Croatia)

       


       

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

     

[morgankingsley]

I cant even imagine what it would be like for new users to try and place a avatar now with a billion options

CTRL F + "name of ountry" or "2-letter code", super hard TBH

I can guarantee that a sizeable percentage of internet users don't know that function even exists

[GeorgiaModerate]

I cant even imagine what it would be like for new users to try and place a avatar now with a billion options

CTRL F + "name of ountry" or "2-letter code", super hard TBH

I can guarantee that a sizeable percentage of internet users don't know that function even exists

Think of it as a minimum intelligence test gateway.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

FY part 2, N Macedonia and Slovenia

       

 
       

[jake_arlington]

Thank you, Alex! How are you guys going about making these avatars, by the way?

Draw each pixel by hand on the map, or is there any kind of shortcut?

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

I usually find a template (that is to say, a map of what I want to make an avatar), reduce it to 75 pixels, then draw the outline manually.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

TYugoslavia part 3: Former Serbia and Montegro / FR Yugoslav (Serbia, Montengro and Kosovo)

 
 



 

[gerritcole]

why is it talkelections now?

[Virginiá]

why is it talkelections now?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=365534.0

[Virginiá]

Great work! Will upload tomorrow

Needs white text

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

I've finished all the avatars for the three Baltic countries

I'll post them tomorrow



(fixed the D-HR avvy in the original post)

[Lourdes]

Jamaica:

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

#ThatFeeling when you see a Prussian avatar