Suggestion: Cake Days
June 30, 2015 at 9:29 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2015 at 10:41 am by Napoléon.)
This is just a random suggestion and I completely get it if there's no interest in it. But who knows, people might like the idea.
With the birthday threads people post, it reminded me of a cool little feature of another website I visit often (reddit). This is an entirely superficial suggestion but I just thought it might be a fun thing to implement, another little feature like how we get badges for post count and such (although you don't bloody see them anymore!).
For those who are unfamiliar a cake day is:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cake+Day
Essentially, a birthday for your account. I envision that whenever it's your cake day (once a year, whatever the date you joined up) you get a little birthday cake icon next to your username, for that entire day.![[Image: fYhuU.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2FfYhuU.png)
Or something to that effect.
It's only a little feature, and would only come around once a year for each member ofcourse, but I thought it was a nice little way to celebrate/mark the year you've just spent on the forum. Then people could say "hey happy cake day" etc. Perhaps even an automated message or something from 'the forum' in your PM box saying "thanks for another year" or something along those lines.
Feel free to shoot me down, I don't envision it encroaching on just about anything else on the forum or changing anything so in that sense, if you couldn't care less about having a cake day, then by all means you can just ignore it. I just thought it might be a nice forum addition, and from my limited understanding of websites, doesn't look like too difficult a thing to implement.
With the birthday threads people post, it reminded me of a cool little feature of another website I visit often (reddit). This is an entirely superficial suggestion but I just thought it might be a fun thing to implement, another little feature like how we get badges for post count and such (although you don't bloody see them anymore!).
For those who are unfamiliar a cake day is:
Quote:The name of the day your username was born
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cake+Day
Essentially, a birthday for your account. I envision that whenever it's your cake day (once a year, whatever the date you joined up) you get a little birthday cake icon next to your username, for that entire day.
Or something to that effect. It's only a little feature, and would only come around once a year for each member ofcourse, but I thought it was a nice little way to celebrate/mark the year you've just spent on the forum. Then people could say "hey happy cake day" etc. Perhaps even an automated message or something from 'the forum' in your PM box saying "thanks for another year" or something along those lines.
Feel free to shoot me down, I don't envision it encroaching on just about anything else on the forum or changing anything so in that sense, if you couldn't care less about having a cake day, then by all means you can just ignore it. I just thought it might be a nice forum addition, and from my limited understanding of websites, doesn't look like too difficult a thing to implement.
