New Thread and Forum Icons in Default style

[Olive]

Thanks for fixing the white box issue, Spoony -- that's a big help.

Totally! Much ebtter.

I know that the hot thread idea isn't yours, but I agree with Morrus that the concept of a hot thread seems kinda redundant. can tell it's hot by the number of pages after it!

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Yeah. This seems to be the prevailing feeling.

Especially now that the little white box problem is fixed (yay!) :

I think if the "New Thread" (white) and "Hot Thread" (orange) colours were swapped, it would fix the problem. That way the coloured icons (orange and yellow) represent new posts, and the colourless icons (grey and white) represent no new posts... which is intuitive, and also matches the way the envelopes worked.

-Hyp.

I'd be perfectly happy without hot threads as well but if you must do them Hypersmurf has the right idea.

 

[Michael Morris]

I think if the "New Thread" (white) and "Hot Thread" (orange) colours were swapped, it would fix the problem. That way the coloured icons (orange and yellow) represent new posts, and the colourless icons (grey and white) represent no new posts... which is intuitive, and also matches the way the envelopes worked.

-Hyp.

Good idea and done. Made the yellow for new hot threads a little stronger.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Good idea and done. Made the yellow for new hot threads a little stronger.

Yeah, yeah, that's it.

That's much more usable.

Cool.

If it came down to a vote on the mini-globes vs arrows, I'd vote for the arrows... but that doesn't actually affect usability, so I'm not too stressed on that one.

-Hyp.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Yes, much better. Thank you.

 

[Creamsteak]

I don't know if it's because I'm here for 3-4 hours sporatically each day, but I've never used these features myself. I kinda "remember" where I posted and what threads I've read and want to read further.

 

[andargor]

Much better, thanks Spoony.

Like the Smurf said, I like arrows better, but you can't have everything in life

Andargor

 

[Fajitas]

Ahhhh. Thank you. Much, much better, indeed.

 

[jezter6]

To those who said envelopes are counter intuitive and clunky...

How clunky is: Open Envelope, new unread posts. Closed envelope, no new posts??

It sure beats having to print out a color map of the icon set because they're all exactly the same thing with just different colors. "Was blue what I was looking for, or was it red?"

Back to my original question, could we please put together a style that is not messed with. THe normal EN World look with the default buttons. Right now my only choices are "super flashy with a bunch of icons and colorschemes" or "absolute nothingness"

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Much better now, and it looks awesome. Thanks for your efforts Michael!