Show off your sprites!

[Bluejay]

I like the full/empty idea personally.

[ecto]

I came up with an idea for the hot topic that might work.

[Sino]

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[Prox]

I was thinking that maybe an icon for the main page which moved quicker and began with blue would work.

My GIF animation program won't work without demolishing the image quality, so someone else will have to do it, but this is an example.

[ecto]

Here ya go.

[FyberOptic]

I made all the extra variants needed for the topic index ones Prox made.  The poll ones are the same though.  I'm not sure how to give them all the extra properties they'd need.

For example, each icon needs Normal, Sticky, Locked, Sticky + Locked versions.  Then it needs versions of each of those to denote the topics you've posted in (which we used bubbles to indicate on the normal post icons).  Then you need variants of all of those for normal, hot, and very hot topics.  So that's 24 different images for the post icons, which are done, and another 24 needed for the poll ones.  But there's no room on the poll one for cracks to show lockedness or bubbles to show if you've posted in it, so I'm not sure what to do with'em yet.

[Prox]

I've got your poll icons, right here

/punch

[FyberOptic]

And now all 24 of those have been made~~

[Red_Raven]

im not just saying this, but i d prefer the old one with the changing beaker because thats what caught my eye when there was a new post.

[ecto]

The animated beakers probobly would have killed dial up users. Even though the images aren't that big Kb wise your still waiting for everything else to load at the same time.

[FyberOptic]

The animated one made it hard to differentiate at first glance which sections had new posts.  Normally I'm used to seeing either bright blue or light gray, which is a pretty big difference in colors, making it easy to see where stuff is new.  I know you put some effort into making the animated one, Mysto, but I asked around before changing it just to make sure, and a few other folks seemed to prefer the empty beaker too.  I even put the almost-empty one up first, and just that tiny bit of green in the bottom of it was enough to be distracting when looking for new posts.  There really needs to be some kind of drastic difference in color for those kinds of icons to keep the same level of functionality as before.

I can't say I'm crazy about the empty one, but it works.  Maybe a beaker alternating colors other than green would work better.  I can't say for shore unless I saw it.  As for the colors, I just had a thought about mabbe cycling between yellow and blue.  See if you can guess why . . !

[Red_Raven]

There you go, for the new posts

[Bluejay]

I like these icons to be honestbut maybe a very pale liquid for the no new posts, and the green for when there are... flat for no, bubbles for yes... new posts = voilitile

[FyberOptic]

The flashy blue now shows which have new posts, and the green now shows normal.  I know it might take some adjusting to for the green, but I think it looks okay myself.  TELL ME ALL OPINIONS.

[Bluejay]

I prefer the full/not full myself, just easier to differentiate then full and flashing/full... just my oppinion though.