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Submitted by BorgQueen on Tue, 10/20/2009 at 4:53pm.

I keep getting asked about the "custom smilies" I use here.

Firstly, the reason: The smilies on chess.com are LAME!!! 

Secondly, the how: They are just images I have uploaded to chess.com in the normal way.  Once uploaded you can easily access them again and again, making putting your own smilies in no more difficult than puttin in the chess.com ones... which when you think about it is really nuts... it shouldn't be so hard to use a smilie 

So yes, I encourage you all to use your own!

Perhaps then, the chess.com staff will do something to make the more interesting

Or maybe not 

I have been part of many forums and good smilies help make conveying the mood of a post easier to see and make the experience of online discussion a little bit more fun!

Please, chess.com , make this unnecessary and make your smilies (a) more enjoyable and (b) automatically triggered on sensing text like :rolleyes: .  Make smilies EASIER to use!!

And I have plenty more

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Comments:

by BorgQueen - 27 days ago
Adelaide Australia
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 4477

  I really wish that text like :rolleyes: was implemented here.  NO text-to-smilies work at chess.com... unfortunately.

by gimmewuchagot - 27 days ago
Millburn-Short Hills, New Jersey United States
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 3917

doesnt work, eh?

by gimmewuchagot - 27 days ago
Millburn-Short Hills, New Jersey United States
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 3917

:rolleyes:

by BorgQueen - 28 days ago
Adelaide Australia
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 4477

The borg animation is no different to the others, the image is simply wider, but it's not moving any more than any other smilie.

Nice game!

by kco - 28 days ago
Perth Australia
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 6871
Just Kidding !!
but seem to be working though
by kco - 29 days ago
Perth Australia
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 6871

yes that the one

by BorgQueen - 29 days ago
Adelaide Australia
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 4477

What?  The borg assimilation one?

by kco - 29 days ago
Perth Australia
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 6871

I am talking about the one that moves

by BorgQueen - 29 days ago
Adelaide Australia
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 4477

Just upload the images which are the animations and insert them, just as you did three posts down!

by kco - 29 days ago
Perth Australia
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 6871

and now I am trying to work out how to install animated emoticons, do you know how to do it BG ? 

by BorgQueen - 29 days ago
Adelaide Australia
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 4477

Looks like a bug was fixed

by kco - 29 days ago
Perth Australia
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 6871

  

by BorgQueen - 31 days ago
Adelaide Australia
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 4477

Ok, I have uploaded a zip of them to my webserver after researching whether the smilies are protected by copyright.  They seem to be public domain so here they are!

http://www.cypherbyte.com.au/ipbsmilies.zip

Enjoy!

by Kacparov - 31 days ago
Torun Poland
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 5744

nice ones

by BorgQueen - 31 days ago
Adelaide Australia
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 4477

You need to download them from your favorite forums, or grab the ones I post?!  Or make your own!

I could probably zip all mine and post the zip here, but the recent "update" to chess.com seems to have disabled inserting images... could be more too, unless it's just me!

by kco - 31 days ago
Perth Australia
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 6871

cute Emotions, ok where the links to get them ? 

 
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