Well-Actually War Trall Chessrook44 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Alright, I admit, I facepalmed AND chuckled at the unexpected change to the forums. So which pony did YOUR avatar turn into? Me, I apparantly got Twilight. Not a fan but were I given the option I probably would have wanted Pinkie. Fourth Wall Breaking for the Win. And for those looking at this post in confusion after the fact... April Fool's changed the forum such that the title became "My Little Spiderweb Software: Remaking Exile is Magic", turned all the forum read/unread icons into galloping Rainbow Dashes, and turned every user's avatar into a different pony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt BMA Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 The SW forum logo does look a lot less sombre with all that pink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 not sure if that's better or worse. and i'm also impressed that sylae has the same pony as usual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I do not protest the theme. I do protest being assigned an Applejack avatar though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Aww... I missed it. adc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 and i'm also impressed that sylae has the same pony as usual As do I, apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Aww... I missed it. No you didn't. I imagine that if you are checking the forums from a mobile device, it will still show the mobile theme though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 stop horsing around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I have no idea what these avatars mean. Sudanna 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Edgwyn Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I am disappointed, I had to manually change the theme in order to see the ponies. Also, it has been several years since my daughter had My Little Ponies. Which Pony am I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Yeah, someone who is lame and has no concept of fun!!!!!! changed it back to spiderlicious. It's still viewable by changing the theme to 'besttheme'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Wait, so this is a permanent theme now? Haha. Also, is my avatar Shergar? Have we finally found him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I am disappointed, I had to manually change the theme in order to see the ponies. Also, it has been several years since my daughter had My Little Ponies. Which Pony am I? You are Applejack, and so am I, sadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 I think whatever theme I was using became the pony theme, because I just had to switch back manually right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 You are Applejack, and so am I, sadly. You're the same Applejack, even, which means your IDs are congruent in the modulo group of 207. 4151 = 20*207+11, 10154 = 49*207+11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 (edited) For those curious, the code used to generate the images is here. There's definitely better ways to do it, but it got the job done for once-off code Using a modulus is definitely not the most "random" thing, but it was giving me grief trying to go about my desired method (feeding the ID into mt_srand() and going from there). On a site larger than SW, I'd definitely be worried about the impact on the avatar server. I doubt having PHP in the way is efficient by any means. Edited April 2, 2015 by sylae as an aside, anyone who had manually changed their theme to besttheme will need to change it back. I just reset all besttheme users so that someone coming back from a hiatus doesn't get surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 if ($matches[1] == 5482) { echo file_get_contents("/var/www/calref-new/chat/emoticon-packs/ponicons/sybeam.png"); } elseif ($matches[1] == 2001) { echo file_get_contents("/var/www/calref-new/chat/emoticon-packs/ponicons/aran.png"); } Considering both of these are actually in the array too (#149 and #17, respectively), you could actually have made a pseudorandom function that just so happened to assign both of us our special avatars. Eg. (51*$id+17)%207 would be 17 for me, and 149 for you. Adding a third ID<->avatar correspondence would have required a square term, and so on. [/mathnerdery] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Edgwyn Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Thanks Tyranicus. So as Sylae's library of Ponies grows we should end up as a different Pony next year. Triumph 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Just wanted to say I found the joke quite hilarious. Two thumbs (hooves???) up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I take it that those who saw the joke didn't have a custom theme set? After all the arguments we used to have over the best skin? And still have about chat? (*cough*Carbon*cough) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Necris Omega Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Embarrassing how long it took me to find the "Change Theme" button to see this. Dunno why, but I figured it'd be under profile settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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