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

[alyndra]

It sounds like a lot of what people actually are wanting in some cases is just to keep icons on old posts, which I can wholeheartedly support just from the number of times I've run across comments about icons that obviously referred to no-longer-extant icons. But maybe that option would be trickier than just having massive icon limits. Or maybe it could be included with that image gallery idea when it gets up and running?

I'm not a big user, so this post is basically reminding me to go check and see - oh, I have 15 icon spaces now instead of 6! And I'm only using 4! I'll have to remember to go icon-hunting . . .

[admiralmemo.livejournal.com]

I agree that there should be an option to be able to keep old icons on old posts or comments, but no longer use them on new content, so you can grow and evolve your icon base without modifying the past content.

Like maybe "Active Icons" and "Archived Icons" as two separate sections, where you can "Archive" an icon to make room for something new. And perhaps an option to pay for to move an icon back out of the "Archive" to being active.