NiaD X

pigfender · October 21, 2020, 5:07am

Good morning, fellow humans!

I’m very happy to announce that the 2020 NiaD award badges have now been uploaded! Sorry about the delay this year – we had some technical issues that meant things took a little longer than usual. We’re investigating a new badge hosting approach that would solve this problem in the future (and hopefully make future years’ badges instantly available), but we’ve decided to park that to 2021 to give us time to get it working and delay you no further!

For those not sure how to add a badge… it’s in our lovely FAQs FAQs - #52 by pigfender

but…

FAQs:

[size=115]Hey! I also wrote a NiaD! Where can I get one of those sweeeet forum badges?[/size]
A number of forum badge files have been uploaded to pigfender.com/NiaD_Badge/
You’ll need to add the filename to the end of that address to see the image.

The files have been named according to the number of NiaDs you’ve taken part in. So if you took part in NiaDs 1, 2, 3, and 4 then the file name is 1-2-3-4.png (with a full path of pigfender.com/NiaD_Badge/1-2-3-4.png)

Similarly, if you took part in NiaDs 2 and 3, the file name would be 2-3.png

I’ve not made badges for every possible combination, only for the sequences that people have actually taken part in. If you think I’ve gotten this wrong, let me know.

To save you a few precious keystrokes, you can just paste the following text into your forum signature, adjusting, of course, the “1-2-3-4.png” part to get the correct PNG file representing the years you’ve taken part:
[url=http://novelinaday.com][img]www.pigfender.com/NiaD_Badge/1-2-3-4.png[/img][/url]

Note, if you also took part in our special 9 and 1/2 edition, the badge for that is a different file and can be added with the image address pigfender.com/NiaD_Badge/9half.png.

My suggested way of adding both to your signature would be with the code:[url=http://novelinaday.com][img]www.pigfender.com/NiaD_Badge/1-2-3.png[/img][/url][img]www.pigfender.com/NiaD_Badge/9half.png[/img] (changing the ‘1-2-3’ in the first PNG to the main event NiaDs you’ve personally taken part in)