Let's talk personalization

Pendragon·9/17/2013, 10:15:10 PM·8 votes·1,595 views

Hey Summoners - there are a couple of threads out there that are discussing the idea of how you represent yourself in the community.

I wanted to take this opportunity to make a more focused discussion on the types of ways you might like to see exist for you to express yourself!

They don't have to be completely thought-through, just whatever ideas you have. I know for example that people really want to see bigger Summoner icons. Should those be in-line, or on mouseover?

22 Comments

iComplicate9/17/2013, 10:20:19 PM7 votes

I think you could move some of the stuff on the right of every post (Sub-communities, Beta Feedback, etc) and make the posts wider, allowing more space for a nice Icon, Motto, etc.

Come to think of it, if I could add a Motto under my name/icon, like "Poppy OP!", that would be cool. :P

Signature options would be nice, also.

EDIT: I REALLY, REALLY think upvotes/downvotes should be post-based; not thread-based.

NightStrafe9/17/2013, 11:40:29 PM3 votes

We should have our own walls where we can post ideas and people should be able to follow your wall to see if you have posted anything new (pretty much like facebook but specifically for league of legends).

Solari Eclipse9/17/2013, 11:54:09 PM3 votes

I posted this in another thread. So, I'll post here where this seems to be a more central location of ideas.

There is a border around each post in the forums currently. Perhaps supplying various borders types to choose from and post within. Seems like Pokemon had a version of this for their menus.

Something else may be an artistic corner. Fit a psuedo thumbnail, a diagonal cutaway on a post revealing the previous champ they played. Maybe do this on the page of topics before you go into a specific thread, on the topic itself.

I think it'd be cool to include the previous champ/skin we played. Either on the thread by the OP or on post. And maybe just champ, if you can see a reason showing others what skins you have in community/forums is toxic.

Included: Screen edit I did of the live forums.

http://imgur.com/u5EsRqt

whorecraft9/17/2013, 11:24:26 PM2 votes

I think the summoner icons should be inline, you want (at least I do) your symbol to show through, theoretically you should be able to use the icon to portray your ideologies (about league of course), sort of like the whole Najin Sword/Najin Shield idea.

Maybe even, next to the summoner icon you could put the "hot streak" symbol next to people who have been creating a lot of positive content or feedback in the community.

Or maybe even just put it up when they're on a hot streak in ranked.

Kira Onime9/18/2013, 12:13:26 AM1 votes

Or how about some image in the background of the user header bar? Something of the sorts.

http://gyazo.com/8d471aed9af4cca1a72be6f1f53e1971.png

Of course this would be from a select choice of bars set up by riot.

Cathadan9/18/2013, 12:34:35 AM1 votes

Keep the most of the customization out of the discussion and on the user profile pages. If we have a theme applied to our profile (pulsefire, spirit udyr) it should appear in the community as well.

Using a mouseover to reveal more info would be nice, but that's not very usable for mobile devices, so it needs to be kept strictly for non-essential info.

Frozt9/18/2013, 1:26:26 AM1 votes

One thing I liked about the old forums was that it displayed our achievements in ranked during season 1 and season 2. You guys probably view this as something that gave false importance to posters, but something that ties in your LoL gameplay to the forums is always fun.

Freezman9/18/2013, 2:21:47 AM1 votes

I don't know what are the limitations and what you guys are willing to do.

But I'd like to have a completely unique icon, as in upload any image that is under a certain resolution, as well as space below any post for a banner (again uploading an image, this one longer), signature (one liner, motto or whatever).

Something like this: http://imgur.com/hmoc34T

On the left: Name, Icon, League or title, Post count would be nice to see how active someone is.

Then below any post you have your banner, signature, etc.

Would be nice to have space to link stuff, as in link your twitter or whatever.

I'd love to photoshop myself a league banner ^_^.

Cheers.

Desiderium9/18/2013, 3:56:27 AM1 votes

I think it's great that we finally have psuedo-avatars, but they're a bit too tiny.

This may not be the fault of the avatar, but the whole interface just seems very cluttered and close together.

I think avatar sizes should increase, and there should be a larger gap between the "sub-communities" box and the "beta feedback" box.

Eleshakai9/18/2013, 4:58:44 AM1 votes

One thing this community needs is profiles. People need to feel invested in their identity, and a post count doesn't do that. Creating an identity with a profile, signature, and avatar does.

Amonart9/18/2013, 7:44:35 AM1 votes

Perhaps there could be a symbol( icon) next to the name with the player's top rank in ranked play? Or based on their activity and upvotes on the community they could get specific ranks here? Like those little arrows pointing up and indicating rank.

gabrenth9/17/2013, 10:49:38 PM1 votes

Can there be some way that we get titles. For instance someone who has 1,000,000 up-votes or comments ect. will be noticed. It would show who is more active on here. Something I feel like reddit doesn't have.

KarthPressR9/17/2013, 11:15:39 PM1 votes

Honestly, I would love an option to put this forum on my Launchpad or Lobby as I call it. Maybe in place of the news and spectate (things I hardly use personally). I know this doesn't particularly pertain to the subject, but I felt it was relevant enough to post.

OneRudeDude9/17/2013, 11:16:40 PM1 votes

Avatars, Signatures, .etc