How about a Valium icon?
And why do I have to enter a title _and_ body? Arggggh.
Reg readers rage at comment icon outrage
Shaken staff at Vulture Central are today locked en masse* in the traditional darkened room sipping sweet tea following the rather adverse reaction to our redesigned comments icons. While a few people favoured us with thoughtful analysis of the new-look El Reg, most were venting steam from both ears while foaming at the mouth …
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Well obviously they should include....
Twat-O-Tron
Big Bang
Big (Credit?) Crunch
Famous-person-goes-on-a-killing-spree
Windows Vista "The System for the 90's "
YANI (Yet another new iPod)
Hooray - sense at last sensei
PH, (evil)BillG (evil)SteveB are back at least, so it was worthwhile working up a sweat about this.
I would like to see a (evil)Jobs, 2000AD and an Atari logo (mainly cos I really liked my old STe) though I don't suppose I'll get those.
Oh well, time to send the recall signal to my army of robo-laser-gnats.
PH 'cos she also makes me work up a sweat
ttfn
I should bloody well think so.
Paris - well, because she's back.
Fine...
and now give us back the old layout and we'll leave you alone
One third of the width is used for adds, and half the monitor space is filled with dull grey because of the stupid fixed width. Had this redesign done in India, did you?
Icon ideas
I would say that a "Halo" and "Devil" picture is needed to represent the Government, you could use Gordon Brown or maybe you could modify pictures of the Palace of Westminster.
Maybe a picture of a laptop on a train as well...
I notie that there are love and hate icons for Apple and Windows, but what about Linux as well?
Those are all I can think of from the top of my head.
Tinfoil Hats Recommended!
What more can one ask... thanks for the other icons returning!
New Icons
Can I get a Twat-oTron icon and an RTFM icon please?
what about a 'Where's the XXXXX icon' icon?
So that us commentards can easily draw your attention to future suggestions for new icons. I know that some suggestions for vital icons I have made in the past seem to have been inadvertently overlooked by reg staff.
Unfortunately I cannot remember what any of those suggestions are - perhaps you could ask a member of staff to look back through all the old comments to find them.
Some new ideas though
A paytard icon (perhaps someone lighting a cigar with a twenty pound note)
A freetard icon (A picture of a junkie mugger would suffice)
how about,
A bullshit icon for those quotes that say one thing but mean another.
An IT illiterate icon for those stories of gross IT incompetence.
An icon of a pyramid with an eye for those stories of corporate abuse of the customer/little guy.
Only some?
You restored some of the icons but not all? Or is my reload failing me? (well, I hadn't used this computer with the new Reg look yet, so the new icons shouldn't be in my cache...) Dead Vulture for PM now.
Ideas for new icons? Hm... I pass for now.
And as I expected, the site looks fine in my smaller, lower-res (1024x768) monitor at work, while there is a tad too much idle grey space in my home wide-screen (1440x900).
How about...
...a Twat-O-Tron icon?
I envisage a steampunk-style engine powered by bile, flicking spittle and sweat as it struggles to make those effete liberals understand its perfectly reasonable middle-english views.*
*I realise this might be a bit difficult to portray in 32x32px, but I can dream.
Politicians.
Something about them. Something fair and accurate. Something that clearly indicates that they are a lying, selfish, egotistical, back-stabbing, self-serving, conniving, sleazy, dishonest, imbecilic, inbred, technophobic AND technophiliac, interfering, power-hungry, dictatorial, hypocritical ASSHOLES.
Something like that. Especially that Gordon Brown, his eyes are too close together.
Nice enough with some exceptions.
The "REG" headstone's lettering runs together a bit much. I like the new Tux icon, but he's not as recognizable. Perhaps a BSDaemon and the flying Windows icons should balance him out, but Gates already has two icons of his own. All around, I don't see a problem. The flaming head is nice, or is that an onion family? I'm guessing it's a flaming head, which will be my icon because I'm sure that's where allowing comments on this story is heading.
Dead Vulture
Where's my dead vulture gone? Bring back the bird!
Seriously, thank you for bringing back most of the old icons. Much better!
Power to the people - right on!
Phew. Put down the pitchforks and torches, boys, they've seen sense.
A bit.
Anyway, how about an "Evil Google" icon. No need to balance that with a "Good Google" icon, because we all know those days are long gone.
Paris, because, well, she's an icon.
Icon ideas
A steaming turd (for poor tech or any New Labour policy)
A box of tissues (for anything truly exciting)
A "G" eating the world (work it out....)
A crashing vehicle (plane, train or automobile)
Big Brother (of 1984 fame, not the bug or defectives mincing about the telly)
A juggling walrus on a jet-ski (I just want to see if you can draw something like that icon sized)
And, finally, how about the ability to link in our own icon (say, sub 2kb and 32x32pixels)
Good riddance
Where? All i see so far is the same ones that look like they were made by a 5yr old using MS Paint.
Worst. Change. EVAR! The *proper* icons have all always been absolutely perfect.
As for new ones, how about Tom, the Will-It-Blend guy. Handy for the new Nano page, as well as everything made by Microsoft.
Jolly Roger
can we have a proper jolly roger icon back? This one looks like it came from some idiotic Flash game for the yoof...
And might I suggest a "freetard" icon for the third row? No, Tux isn't always the right icon for the job.
A Boris Johnson icon
for articles that make you go "Cripes!"
My suggestion for a new icon
How about a great big # 1 for all the saddos derive some measure of pleasure from being the first to comment on a story ?
Icons
WTF in a circle = What the fcuk ?
Large penis = what a fcuking disk
Penis coming out of a person's head = What a fcuking dickhead
You get the gist !!!
It's been requested before
The coffee/keyboard incident icon and how about some punched cards for the "in my day..." comments
I suggest...
Beer.
Proper beer too, not that cold fizzy tasteless Euro-lager stuff.
Phhht...
Personally I fail to care topo much.
Ok, fixed width is pretty amateurish, but I tend to open the articles in the printer friendly option anyway so it hardly bothers me...
Alien because it's gotta be one of them that came up with that idea...
if it aint broke why fix it?
why the change? it was fine the way it was.....
Icons are rubbish.
They're just daft anyway, ditch them completely.
Common sense wins through!
How about a kneeling icon, for when we want to express whole hearted agreement or that we are not worthy of such wisdom (in the style of Wayne’s World)
Icon suggestions
Larry Ellison as devil, no need for a saint one.
Replace Bill icons with Steve (B).
Otherwise, cool to listen to your readers, and actually do something about it, sets a dangerous precedent methinks.
Sarah, 'cos it's her, isn't it?
Change
is not always a good thing.
Mines the one with loose change in the pocket
Icons are back!
Well, some of the better ones are back which makes me happy :)
Icons
How about a urinal full of ants?
For the pedants, of course!
Pirate is still crap.
Ok, some degree of common sense has kicked in, but who's fault was it, who actually thought the new icons were good? Enquiring minds need to know.
Condom
As we used to say it in the programming bull pen I worked in for many years, "put your brain condoms on, everyone." Use for "here's something that is hardly believable, but I'm sure it's true."
Woohoo!
Love the new changes overall, but the icons were a sore point.
Glad that Paris and the Coat Guy are back.
I for one welcome
...our capitulating Reg underlings. You are servants of the people, never forget it.
Manna from Heaven
You could have an icon that represents the popular "I for one welcome our new overlords" phrase. Also, an icon that represents and mocks Facebook. Furthermore, an icon that represents and mocks the Web 2.0 phenomenon, although I'm not sure how you will encapsulate this with a little picture.
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Well... the new ones are rather kindergarten comic style. Could have expected flak.
Keith Vaz icon
We need a Keith Vaz icon for "I don't understand technology but I'm frightened of it and need to pander to the Daily Mail"
where's the web 2.0 angle?
bet you won't do that one now, will you?
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