Thread Icons - Cubes?

I was thinking, as I was browsing the forums, how often I click on a thread and it sometimes takes a little while of reading the topic till I realize what puzzle is beign discussed. And then, I realized, that the thread icons as they are right now (the smiley face when you see this topic in the topic list for this forum) don't really serve much of a purpose.
So, I don't know if this is even possible, but if someone (me, or someone else) made a few icons to represent puzzles? like, there could be one for 2x2, 3x3, big cubes, pyraminx, megaminx, etc.
Anywho, if someone did that, how hard would it be to change the default icon set?

YES good idea. I'll make a few small GIF's if pjk wants? Even animate them ?

Also, what ever happened to the site icon, as well?

Sounds like a great idea. I will try getting this done before summer's end.

Here is the site icon:

pjk said:

Sounds like a great idea. I will try getting this done before summer's end.

Here is the site icon:

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I meant the page icon (favicon) that appears in the URL bar or tab in most browsers... it isn't showing up in any browser I use. I can make some GIFs if you want, should I or will you do this?

Unsolved cube icon = Unread posts
Solved cube icon = All posts read

oooh, I like it, Stefan! JBCM, are you working on this, or do you want me to?

I would help if it weren't for my complete lack of skills. But there are some great ideas in this thread. I especially like the Scrambled/Unscrambled cubes for threads Unread and read.

hawkmp4 said:

oooh, I like it, Stefan! JBCM, are you working on this, or do you want me to?

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PJK never indicated whether or not someone should work on these (or what format they should be in), so I never did anything past an animation on here.

Good ideas. JBCM, if you want, you can work on them. However, it is probably best to hold off for now until I find out exactly what sizes we need, what types, etc.

pjk said:

Good ideas. JBCM, if you want, you can work on them. However, it is probably best to hold off for now until I find out exactly what sizes we need, what types, etc.

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Ok, let me know. I'll start a few perhaps. Probably not animated; those can be tedious . Would size matter? As in, can you just have the browser resize them? I think the current ones are all GIFs.

Hey... you can have a competition like you did for the banner a while ago...

Yes, browsers can resize, but it'll look ugly. Here are some I made a while ago for the same purpose as suggested above.

I put some icons up for read/unread posts/forums.

I will get to icons for specific posts soon, hopefully.

Stefan's images look quite good, but imho they don't fit into the forum design at all.

I like them, but I can't tell if its the vicodin for my wisdom teeth or if its actually the images, it looks like there are maybe some artifacts on the sides of the cube from compression or resizing.
But I really like the idea.

As i expected, it doesn't look very good. But you should at least replace all "thread markers" (or however these little circles are called) with cubes.

closed threads could be marked with cubes which have an X pattern on them (red X on white background)

How about something like these?

Yeah, we need to make a couple for closed topics, etc.

Tim, what do you not like about them? Any suggestions to make it look better?

Closed topics should be a scrambled cube with a POPed piece lying next to it.

I think it is a good idea, but making it look reasonable and fit within the size would be tough.

Another idea for read/unread posts/forums that may fit the design colors more would be to have a grey (forum grey) cube with blue squares every other or so, and then have a solid blue cube for the solved. The blue being the color of blue of the forum.

pcharles93 said:

Closed topics should be a scrambled cube with a POPed piece lying next to it.

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That can still be assembled and then twisted. I suggest a 1x1x1 for closed threads, you really can't do anything with those.