# You say it's your birthday?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-say-its-your-birthday/24594>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** rfc, spec\
**Created:** [January 30, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-say-its-your-birthday/24594 "2015-01-30T00:55:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-say-its-your-birthday/24594/1 "2015-01-30T00:55:37Z")

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One feature that might be fun as a plugin (can’t see this as core) – **when it is your birthday, show a cake Emoji next to your name**.

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/6/661816f4c54aefd4dc0399f7a1269e764384d258.png)

Reddit does something like this [“cakeday”](http://www.reddit.com/r/help/wiki/faq#wiki_when_is_my_cake_day.3F_.28reddit_birthday.29) and it’s fun. But we could use two possible dates:

1. the day you joined that Discourse (default)

2. your _actual_ birthday, as entered in a custom birthday field in user profile, since we don’t – and have no plans to – have this field by default

Anyway I think this is a fun feature and would make an excellent plugin.

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/f/4/8f4394937bff42632827a0d3945df510674a97ca.jpeg "Beatles Rock Band Dreamscape Birthday") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWD9Qut6DnA)

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