So I guess Post Icons are officially dead?

[BirdOPrey5]

'Tis a shame.... I will miss them.

 

[praj]

I can see my users raising a stink about it, especially on mobile devices. I'd rather see it as an option I can turn off.

Definitely agree..

I suppose you could easily remove or replace it from the page template.

I'm sure it could be, or you could even code in conditionals based on theme (assumin mobile users see a mobile optimized theme)..

 

[Shelley]

I prefer having the option of post icons but I can see why they aren't present. Because there's a vast amount of people who like post icons I personally feel that an enable/disable option should be implemented in the admincp end so both parties are happy. Having that option (I'm sure) will be a first and a nice feature to have being able to turn it on or off. Just some food for thought.

 

[Floren]

I think that wouldn't be too difficult to put in and just have a small icon on the right of the thread title (where the redirect, locked, and pinned topic icons appear) I think.

The Xen developers can do much better then this.

 

[Eric J.]

But it's a pretty pointless feature, and all it'll do is take more time to implement. It's just better no even there. There are just too many things you can do to a thread to customize it, an icon isn't needed too.

 

[Brandon_R]

Comon you guys, you aren't thinking socially. These things are a thing of the past. Take a look at how twitter does it with the avatars as the post icon. And that system works good.

 

[Kevin]

Comon you guys, you aren't thinking socially. These things are a thing of the past. Take a look at how twitter does it with the avatars as the post icon. And that system works good.

So use something like "TweetBoard" if you like how Twitter does it; I run forums, not tweets.

 

[Jason]

I just now noticed they're gone, guess that shows I rarely used or paid attention to them, heh.

 

[Eric J.]

I just now noticed they're gone, guess that shows I rarely used or paid attention to them, heh.

Same here, which is why I don't have any problem getting rid of them.

 

[BirdOPrey5]

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/post-icons.73/

They are dead. Kier said so.

 

[Enigma]

The only part I'm interested is a visual notification of threads you participated, into each thread line.
Xen will have that feature.

Are you a prophet or do you have insider info? No, but I'm with you, I'd like to see some sort of indication of whether or not I participated in a thread.

 

[Brandon_R]

Yeah i didn't even notice they were gone. Shows how much we really missed them

 

[Floris]

It took a little bit of getting used to. But then you realize how little time you actually spent on staring at the post icons on other boards, are they blue or red, is there a dot on it, or lock, or .. etc, etc.

Now I just open the forum, see the avatars of the users, some might be more interesting to me than others. And I can see what is new content.

For me, that's what gets me hooked, and it gives a clean overview.

 

[jmurrayhead]

It took a little bit of getting used to. But then you realize how little time you actually spent on staring at the post icons on other boards, are they blue or red, is there a dot on it, or lock, or .. etc, etc.

Now I just open the forum, see the avatars of the users, some might be more interesting to me than others. And I can see what is new content.

For me, that's what gets me hooked, and it gives a clean overview.

I couldn't agree more, Floris.

 

[BirdOPrey5]

At this point I would hope there may be a mod that would allow a post icon to be chosen and replace the small avatar if one is chosen, otherwise the avatar is displayed.

 

[Mikey]

Meh, personally I never use Post Icons, just another option which clutters up my vB Editor.

 

[Erik]

I much prefer the avatars over the post icons. Much more social and modern.

 

[Grover]

I can see my users raising a stink about it, especially on mobile devices. I'd rather see it as an option I can turn off.

That is why they invented 'mobile styles'...

 

[mrGTB]

Post icons doesn't bother me either. How many people half the time, spend time to choose the right one that matches the thread title in every single thread they create?

 

[Disjunto]

Post icons doesn't bother me either. How many people half the time, spend time to choose the right one that matches the thread title in every single thread they create?

Personally, I've never chosen a post icon. I don't even know where the option is to select one on vB, and I've been running vB since vB2.

 

[Zachariah Boren]

Old school person here. I could care less about a persons avatar on a threadbit. Many times on website setups for clients avatars and signatures are off even in the postbit (only shown in profile / memberlist).

Post icons are great as they are simple subject or mood expressions per thread.