posted on Mar, 21 2022 @ 06:29 PM
While ATS was down I got to thinking what has caused ATS to lose the large member base it once had. Of course there are many reasons, and a major one
is the lack of advertisers due to the nature of the content on ATS. But I think ATS also lost a bit of it's charm over the years as the theme was
updated. Some people prefer the older theme but I actually think the current theme is fairly clean and modern looking.
However I think most of us who've been around a long time can agree on one thing, the old gif smilies were way better and most of us didn't like the
new ones. Those smilies were practically the mascots of ATS and they really added to the charm. Back in late 2013 I even created a
greasemonkey script to restore the old smilies and make a few other tweaks to the ATS
theme.
Probably wont work any more since it was made for a slightly older version of ATS but I'll probably update it when I get some free time. But if the
admins decide to restore the old smilies there wont be much point updating it. If I recall correctly we got these current smilies because the old ones
used more bandwidth, but I doubt it makes much difference and they should be cached by the browser for regular visitors anyway.
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21/3/2022 by ChaoticOrder because: (no reason given)