Legend for the topic icons

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Legend for the topic icons

Post by Spondy »

I'm trying to work out what all of the different topic icons mean. They're helpful if you know but not if you don't. Could you add a legend to the topic icons used on the board, possibly in 'How To Use The Boards'? Or a tool tip on mouseover?

Some of the icon variants and meanings I've seen are;

red circle - all posts read
blue circle - some unread posts
red flame inside circle - hot topic read
blue flame inside circle - hot topic unread posts
padlocks on edge of circle - locked
small circle on edge - includes subforums
star on edge - posted in topic
exclamation mark inside - sticky topic
i inside circle - information ?
i on edge of circle - information ?
orange flame on edge of circle - ?
question mark on edge - ?
right facing arrow inside - forum link ?
lightbulb on edge - ?

and there may be others which haven't been used yet. The default hot topic trigger is at 25 posts.

I found this list of icons and meanings on the phpBB community forum.

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... #p15009641

Not all of the ones used on this site are listed. It looks as though different icon pack is being used but they are quite easy to compare.
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Re: Legend for the topic icons

Post by Bottle Rocket - Liam »

Some of the topic icons are ones that are chosen by the OP - I quite often use them to suggest what the post is about.

Truth is I do not know myself what they all are, It is a plug-and-play set-up, and this was the cleanest one that I found that looked almost modern!

Yes 25 is Hot Topic (I set that).

I will add it to the list, and see if I can work something out.

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