Icons: how much is "enough"?

[denise]

Since icons are one of the more popular things we offer, a major driver of paid accounts, and something that people often request ("more icons" is one of the most frequent suggestions), I'm curious as to what people would consider "enough" icon slots. I'm setting the low end of this poll at 250, which is the most available (premium paid/seed accounts) in any account offered now; please answer the point at which you'd feel you had 'enough' icon slots, however you define that:

Poll #1847

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 856

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How many icon slots would be enough to suit you?

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Up to 250
477 (55.7%)

251-300
77 (9.0%)

301-350
14 (1.6%)

351-400
13 (1.5%)

401-450
2 (0.2%)

451-500
168 (19.6%)

501-600
28 (3.3%)

601-700
3 (0.4%)

701-800
2 (0.2%)

801-900
0 (0.0%)

901-1000
48 (5.6%)

1001-1200
8 (0.9%)

1201-1400
0 (0.0%)

1401-1600
0 (0.0%)

1601-1800
0 (0.0%)

1801-2000
2 (0.2%)

2001-2200
0 (0.0%)

2201-2400
0 (0.0%)

2401-2600
1 (0.1%)

2601-2800
0 (0.0%)

2801-3000
0 (0.0%)

3001-3500
2 (0.2%)

3501-4000
0 (0.0%)

4001-4500
0 (0.0%)

4501-5000
1 (0.1%)

5001-5500
0 (0.0%)

5501-6000
0 (0.0%)

6001-6500
0 (0.0%)

6501-7000
0 (0.0%)

7001-7500
0 (0.0%)

7501-8000
0 (0.0%)

8001-10,000
0 (0.0%)

More than 10,000
10 (1.2%)

Comments

[mark]

I was thinking tags. Then you could, for example, have your series of Stargate mood icons, your Calvin and Hobbes icons, and your random WTF icons.

Icon-A, tagged: stargate, happy
Icon-B, tagged: stargate, sad
Icon-C, tagged: calvin, happy
Icon-D, tagged: calvin, sad
Icon-E, tagged: wtf really, happy

When you go to select icons you pick a tag and it shows you all icons with that tag. That lets you basically group them however you want. If you click 'happy' you see all of your happy icons: the Stargate one with Daniel grinning like an idiot, the Calvin one where Hobbes has a snowball, and this really strange pastel paint smear that reminds you of a happy time.

Or, if you click the stargate tag, you get your entire collection of Stargate icons you can look through. Etc.

Which is basically what you were saying wrt groups but breaking it down into tags which we already know and support.

+1

[jeeps]

I LOVE THIS. especially since half of the time i choose icons by fandom, and the other half i choose them by mood (generally because the thread isn't fandom-related).

[libitina]

+1 that's how I already do my keywords

[denise]

Yeah, exactly -- I was thinking that a few minutes after I hit post. (And that can also tie into the image hosting when we do it, etc, to make icon/tag galleries.) green thumb from me.

[anatsuno]

Awesome, yes; best grouping solution I can think of.

[delight]

This! This is what I was going to suggest if no one had yet, and here it is!

(Although I would want the option for the tags to be viewable to only me, if possible, because my mental sorting systems when it comes to images are such that I would not want to have to explain them to anyone, and they're odd enough I know someone would ask.)

[nextian]

Agreed with this (hi Rue.) Also because there's a lot of information already on the icon page, and I might put an enormous amount of tags and then that would look cluttery.

[amber]

+1 also how i try to do my kws.

[lap_otter]

Agreed - I would be super happy if this happened

[cimorene]

I like this, but I'd like to see a way to combine this with the feature someone suggested in dw_suggestions the other day of assigning a "primary" keyword to an icon and the ability to hide all the secondary keywords. It should be easy to turn that filter on and off, though, in case you need to check one of the others.

[ten]

Coming in late to say I love this as well.