Thread icons are confusing.

A Boojum Snark

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Please find a new package of icons, because the current ones are horribly inconsistent.

Going by the filenames:
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Anyone else see the messiness? Checkmark seems to mean you posted, but only on normal threads. Then with hot threads, if you haven't posted and there's no new posts, it's just plain orange book. If either of those two criteria are met, it gains a blue arrow, which apparently means diddlysquat. If both are met, it gains an orange square... again meaning little since it appears by itself.

So uhh, can we get some new ones, preferably with one symbol for being posted in, and another for new posts. :p
 
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A Boojum Snark

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The crosshair logo would be neat to use, I might actually be able to do it if none of the more artsy people around here do so. I'd just need a list of everything needed so I don't miss one.
 

Ida

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The crosshair logo would be neat to use, I might actually be able to do it if none of the more artsy people around here do so. I'd just need a list of everything needed so I don't miss one.

Heck, even I could do some of those, I used to make sprites for a hobby back in the day you know. :p

Nah, I'd rather give way for someone else, honestly. I guess what you'd need to do is:
Threads
Polls
Announcements
Stickies

And all of the above will need variations to indicate you've posted there, whehter they're hot, if they're locked, that there are new/no new posts, not to mention all possible combinations of all of these.
I may be missing something, though.

EDIT: Why do only a few of my posts count towards my post count, by the way?
 

Nineaxis

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I don't care much about the different icons, if it's gray there's no new replies, and if it's orange somewhere in there I'll take a look at the discussion...
 

A Boojum Snark

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Oh look, yet another symbol, the plus sign...
thread_dot.gif
Seriously, I wonder who made this icon set. :rolleyes:
 

AWESOME-O

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Just go to new posts if you want to read new posts...
 

A Boojum Snark

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It's not so much the new posts things I'm bothered with, it's the have-I-posted-in-it part. I can't be bothered to keep track of what threads I've posted in on all the forums I visit.

Beyond that, though, just because you don't need/use it (you meaning everyone who's posted as such), doesn't mean it's a reason to leave it unpolished, unprofessional and basically broken :p

edit: a wave of ideas just hit me *gets to work on icons*
 
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A Boojum Snark

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Doublepost for great justice!

Here's a sampling of what I made, until pepper finds my PM and puts them in if he approves.

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I was going to make a stickybomb to replace the pushpin for sticky threads, because it would have been perfect, but I couldn't make it look good at ~12 pixels, and I think it would break the tables if it was larger and the sticky was also rated. :(

edit: haha, awesome, this is post 33,333 :D
 
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Doublepost for great justice!

Here's a sampling of what I made, until pepper finds my PM and puts them in if he approves.

announcement_new.gif
New Announcement.
forum_new.gif
New posts in section.
forum_old_lock.gif
Locked section.
thread_dot_hot_new.gif
Hot thread with new posts that you've posted in.
thread_dot_lock.gif
Plain locked thread.
thread_new.gif
Plain thread with new posts.
thread_moved.gif
Moved thread or link (the uploader link on the board index).

I was going to make a stickybomb to replace the pushpin for sticky threads, because it would have been perfect, but I couldn't make it look good at ~12 pixels, and I think it would break the tables if it was larger and the sticky was also rated. :(

edit: haha, awesome, this is post 33,333 :D

Those are great! That's exactly what we need. The normal post with no new posts is just a grey crosshair right?
 

A Boojum Snark

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Those are great! That's exactly what we need. The normal post with no new posts is just a grey crosshair right?
Yup.
and to drpepper... if you know where to do it, it'd be fun to change the "Moved:" text on a thread to "Teleported:" :p

edit: Yay, they're active now. Force refresh the content if you can't see them. :D
Thanks for the greenname, drpepper!
 
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laghlagh

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Completely unrelated, but can you have small handy pixel icons like here , not the giant ones taking up important bandwith!
 

Ida

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Completely unrelated, but can you have small handy pixel icons like here , not the giant ones taking up important bandwith!

I think you posted the wrong link.

Anyway, the new icons are awesome. Good job on them, now the forums look much more TF2-ish!