Can't the emoticon manager be set up so that emoticons can be sorted in a particular order by assigning them a number?

Would love to see this feature in 2.2

Don't hold your breath, we asked for this way back in 1.something.

Seems rather obvious, doesn't it?

I'd rather it be a drag and drop javascript order thing. (Along with forum orderings) numbers are messy.

I'd be willing to wait for that.

I'd rather be able to organize them by category. Happy, sad, angry, adult, special; etc...

I'd rather be able to organize them by category. Happy, sad, angry, adult, special; etc...

I Second That!

Any form of ordering system would be great, be it numbers or something a bit more fancy. Be a great extra touch.

I don't think most users are too worried about the order of their emoticons personally. :)

Presentation is everything. I'd like to be able to order them.

I'd rather be able to organize them by category. Happy, sad, angry, adult, special; etc...

Nice idea

Adult eh. lol

+1.5

Adult eh. lol

+1.5

lol, I knew if I snuck that one in, someone would say something. :P

I don't think most users are too worried about the order of their emoticons personally

Well, some forums use alot of emoticons. I have quite a few on my board, and it would be nice to have them organized in some way. It's usually the gaming forums and fan sites that use alot of smileys, and they would really appreciate a way to make it easier for them. :)

+2. I have over 300 emoticons on my fan forum.

I have over 400 on my forum and I used to have a mod that organized them but after several upgrades I never got to put it back in :blink: Would be nice if IPB added this feature for 2.2. I like the drop and drag idea and the catagory idea...both would rock! :thumbsup:

In keeping with the categorization idea... I think the new setup that deviantArt has, with the sort of iPod-style menu-ing system for their smilies, is pretty nice. I'd love to see something like that in the smilies box in IPB one of these days ;).

I have over 400 on my forum

Dang!! and I thought my 150 was a lot.

+1

How about the option to set it to a column of 2 when clicking show all, instead of having to scroll down a stupid amount to find the emoticon you want.

Or, with the new "next", "previous" buttons, we could re-word them to categories, or choose which emotions to display on page 1, page 2, etc.

Or, with the new "next", "previous" buttons, we could re-word them to categories, or choose which emotions to display on page 1, page 2, etc.

I dislike that, I prefer having the scroller available in this case. It doesn't even look right at the moment never mind work, before when it had the dividers it looked mint.

I Have "Emoticon Category Browser" And in my board I have 854 Smilies, and before that Mod It was a real pain with 300 o more, that page tooks to long time to reload, etc.

If IPS can implement this in 2.2, it'll be a major Step_.

Sorry for my poor english.

and I thought I had a lot of smileys :lol:

And what's new?

I am hoping that you get user-by-user customized emoticons. Different users like different emoticons, so it's better if we left the management up to them. This way they have their favorites on the first page, and then the others further down.

Something I think would be very cool, would be to order the emoticons by popularity, so everytime a particular emote is used in a post, add to it's usage count. That way the most used ones will appear first and be easier to use.

Something I think would be very cool, would be to order the emoticons by popularity, so everytime a particular emote is used in a post, add to it's usage count. That way the most used ones will appear first and be easier to use.

That's a clever idea, mate, but it also has some drawbacks. Members expect certain smilies to be visible, and each person's pet smiley may differ. While it may be cool to see the list reorganize itself, it would probably also have a disorienting effect. Of course, on the flip side of that argument you could say that new smilies on the one-click list may encourage members to experiment with the "show all" instead of ignore the entire repository of emoticons. :ermm: