cheatmaster30 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 I already mentioned this a long, long while ago, but I guess I'll reiterate it again now... we seriously need forum/category icons as a default feature in the next major version of Invision Power Board. In case you don't know what they are, they're basically forum specific icons you display next the forum name/description on the board index and by sub forum names on the forum topic listing, and look a bit like this: Or this: Or this (from my own site): They're a common feature on many forums (and a lot of big boards), they've been available as a modification for pretty much every script under the sun, and I honestly think they're commonplace enough they should be a built in feature rather than an add on at this point in time. Heck, I even mocked up an image showing what settings for one could ideally look like in the IPB 3.4 interface: " alt="forumiconmockup.png"> I hope IPB considers them as a feature and adds them to their upcoming IPB 4 software, since a lot of sites pretty much can't go without them any more and they work wonders in making a forum's layout much better and more friendlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StealthBravo Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Vouch. vBulletin, which is by far the worst forum software out there has this for god's sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clover13 Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Funny I came across this thread looking for how others might be doing this...unfortunately it's not a built in option. cheatmaster30, how did you accomplish it in your own forum? You got rid of the read/unread icons entirely and just put your own in there explicitly? Or do you have a table where you have key/value pairs between forum_id and icon path? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheatmaster30 Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 Funny I came across this thread looking for how others might be doing this...unfortunately it's not a built in option. cheatmaster30, how did you accomplish it in your own forum? You got rid of the read/unread icons entirely and just put your own in there explicitly? Or do you have a table where you have key/value pairs between forum_id and icon path? I used this free modification: '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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