[General Battuta]

Sup yo, is there any way to allow users to select flair that would only appear on a specific subforum? I'm thinking about faction affiliation badges for BP fans who want to be able to draw their rhetoric guns on sight, or WoD character flair, or JaD achievement badges, or what have you.

This would be material that'd only work in 1 specific area of the forum. If not no worries, we don't want to clutter HLP's clean look.

[MatthTheGeek]

I have no idea what "flair" would even mean in this context.

[Scourge of Ages]

I'm guessing this sort of stuff  V V



But... in the form of badges or something tasteful

[MatthTheGeek]

That‘s like, not even trying to explain anything :<

[jg18]

Matth, watch this movie and be entertained.

To be more concrete though, I think Battuta is referring to things like the badge-like icons that appear below user avatars in The Escapist forums (example).

I guess they could be cool, but I'm concerned about the clutter (I like the clean look of the forums) and maybe about the time it'd take to implement them, especially when there are still things that need to be fixed, like long sigs not displaying correctly on profile pages.

[Fury]

Sounds like Battuta wants something like HLP achievements.

*shudders* Please, no.

[Phantom Hoover]

sounds like he wants users to be able to pick from a limited set of custom badges on each forum

[General Battuta]

Yeah or maybe sig stuff, but, again, this is not a suggestion worth any serious amount of labor, I'd just like to know if it's trivially possible right now.

[An4ximandros]

We would cease to be mere fanatical constructs and actually have individuality in our visual expressionism. It would be improvident.

[Goober5000]

Yeah or maybe sig stuff, but, again, this is not a suggestion worth any serious amount of labor, I'd just like to know if it's trivially possible right now.

Nope.  It would require some PHP coding.

Personally, I would prefer to see project-specific theme art, like Setekh did for us back in the days of HLP 1.5.  Example:

[mjn.mixael]

ew no.

[yuezhi]

Wow that is flashy, in a bad way.

[Mongoose]

It's probably from the year 2001 or so.  Cut it some slack.

[Goober5000]

Are these any better?

[mjn.mixael]

No. We definitely don't need that kind of loud board customization.

[NGTM-1R]

Not in the slightest, alas.

[Scotty]

I'm fairly certain that's not what Battuta was talking about.  More like a forum specific badge for something like BP that identifies preferred faction.  You could probably make a couple usergroups for it, but I don't know if you could make it appear only in the BP forum, and that'd be a lot of unnecessary work for admins and mods.

[An4ximandros]

Are these any better? ...

MY EYES! THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!

I think something more along the lines of slight customizations.

Example: Bp ():

Have a Tev, UEF, Gaian, Vasudan, etc. badge that works similarly to the project badges. You could make them occupy the space reserved for avatars (But still keeping the dimensions small, ofc)
Just throwing stuff at the wall.

[Droid803]

Well, this is the best example off the top of my head of the idea actually implemented somewhere:


On certain subforums of TeamLiquid (iirc, only those for LiveReport threads of events), team badges show up based on user setting that shows which esports team you're cheering for. Small, unobtrusive, occupying an otherwise empty portion of a post.

[General Battuta]

That looks great.