Hi everyone,
As most of you probably know, the emoticons used in chat are stored in MediaWiki:Emoticons, and whenever a new emoticon is requested, we add it to that page.
However, since we started adng avatars of users as emoticons, the page has become increasingly big. As for today, the users' avatar section takes over a third of the page's total height, and when it comes to number of characters, it takes over 64% of the page's size. Many of these avatars belong to users that have either quitted or got blocked, and some of them are barely used at all.
As a result, the user avatar section will be reset, and the avatar requests will continue as they usually do today. However, as many of the active users still have their avatars used as emoticons, you can sign here to request keeping your avatar- just please make sure to follow the instructions on that page.
Again, once the section is reset, and if you didn't sign in this project page, you would still be able to request an admin/interface editor to add your avatar.
