What about post icons...what happen to those?

[aculate]

what about post icons...what happen to those? I don't use them as much as prefixes and i don't mind if it becomes a thing of the past but, just for curiosity, are they gone for good?

 

[Kier]

I see no need to implement them in XenForo - we get by very well without them.

 

[Jamie]

Interesting that this has come up.. It was mentioned on another site that had forum icons asking if they were really necessary and in that topic someone tweaked the code and made it so you could remove the icons and made it look the way xF does it currently.

I like the lack of forum icons and the way it's done here.

Jamie

 

[RobParker]

The only thing is that we used the thread icons to put our news items in categories which vbadvanced then displayed next to the news item. I think we could use prefixes to do the same thing, display a prefix icon next to each news story but might take a little figuring out once a portal/cms is developed.

 

[David McHenry]

They look cool but how many people really changed the default post icons or used them for that matter?

 

[AnthonyCea]

You mean the last post icon so you can hit the last post quicker with a link ?

 

[David McHenry]

No I think he means the icons that used to be to the left of thread titles in "other" forum software.

 

[Jesepi]

I liked post icons, but honestly nobody ever used them.

 

[AnthonyCea]

No I think he means the icons that used to be to the left of thread titles in "other" forum software.

You mean the one that changes color when the thread becomes a "hot thread" ?

If it is the last post in the thread icon that links to the last post, I use that all day long.

 

[David McHenry]

You mean the one that changes color when the thread becomes a "hot thread" ?

If it is the last post in the thread icon that links to the last post, I use that all day long.

Getting closer but not quite there yet . I'm not sure they're in vBulletin 4. I do know they're in 3.8

 

[Moses]

They are in vb4, we've got about 90 of them and I find they visually add to a thread description.
http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/forum/forums/44-Rugby-Discussion

It would be awesome if there were a way to migrate these into XF..

 

[Luke F]

Perhaps something better suited to a modification - some forums use them everywhere, whereas others not as much or not at all.

 

[Vincent]

Well, I was kinda bored of seeing that one envelop when no unread posts.
I like this, because I now can SEE who started the thread

 

[ArnyVee]

I've never used them and very few members use them from my experience.

Although, without thread prefixes on xenForo those could take the place of them.

 

[Shelley]

I used post icons all the time specifically for certain areas but that is my preference. That said, I was an advocate for post icons to be introduce in the first month of xenforo but feel post icons would be redundant and bloat xenforo. With that also, 99.9% of people would never use post icons so I feel not introducing them in xenforo was, and still is a good move.

 

[GunZothecula]

The thing Xenforo has yet to realize over the years is that they are creating this software for the customers who may have already or is looking to buy. But instead they still seem to think they are creating their own personal forum and will only add the features "THEY" enjoy or need, seems the customers or potential buyers get ignored when asking

Please take some feature requests so that the buyers can be happy with their purchase and like some have said go off and buy vB or some other forum software. Xenforo is leading for feature rich addons/themes, IC5 seems to be catching up, vB imho still looks like it is back in the phpBB, MyBB or phpNuke days.

 

[MySiteGuy]

The thing Xenforo has yet to realize over the years is that they are creating this software for the customers who may have already or is looking to buy. But instead they still seem to think they are creating their own personal forum and will only add the features "THEY" enjoy or need, seems the customers or potential buyers get ignored when asking

Please take some feature requests so that the buyers can be happy with their purchase and like some have said go off and buy vB or some other forum software. Xenforo is leading for feature rich addons/themes, IC5 seems to be catching up, vB imho still looks like it is back in the phpBB, MyBB or phpNuke days.

To the contrary, they've added many features over the years based on the suggestions forums, when the item gets enough upvotes, if it's feasible.

See the Suggestions forum, and it's guidelines post.

 

[Suzanne O]

If you go to https://www.pixelexit.com there's some style sheets that have them in there.