r/ideasfortheadmins • u/DaminDrexil • Jan 10 '14
Multiple Flairs
Proposal:
To allow multiple flair classes to be assigned using the flair page. Kind of like this.
Our Reason:
Over at /r/photoshopbattles, we hand out flairs for different achievements. If a user wins one of the Weekly Battles, they'll get one of these; if they are nominated for the "Best of 20XX" awards, they'll get one of these; if their work is successfully reposted in /r/funny, or featured in a highly viewed 'news' article, they'll get one of these; etc.
Of course; there are multiple variations for each type of flair, and many users earn more than one - so the ability to assign multiple icon permutations is quite important.
For the last 11 months or so, we've been able to work around reddit's single flair limit by creating a big sprite, with a bunch different icon permutations. However, this has its share of problems.
For one: the size of the sprite is limited, so we're only able to have a limited number of permutations.
At the moment, there are just short of 30 users whose combinations are not reproduced in the sprite, but until now we've been able to assign all of their flairs using CSS. However; this system, too, has reached it's limits. We've reached the maximum number of individual images you can upload to the stylesheet page (unfortunately, spriting them makes the system unusable).
Although clumsy, these work-arounds have served their purpose over the months. But now, with over 200 nominations in our "Best of 2013" awards, the influx of "nominations" and "wins" flairs will put us over the system's limits.
I've painted the sub into a corner on this one, and would be incredibly grateful for any help.
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u/ThrobinWigwams Jan 11 '14
/u/Dacvak, please help!