Basically, I just wanted a feed I could offer for each picon.

so picon1 had a feed, picon2 had a different feed that showed just threads in one forum with that icon.

The application is my news forum uses icons to sort bands - if i had an rss feed for each icon people could subscribe to news for each band.

Gotcha. That'd be a completely different hack then. Depending on how the news is seen, you could put each type of news in its own sub-forum and then use vB's normal feed / forum to accomplish the same thing.

Is there a way with this hack to just put a link the the navbar to display threads with a certain post icon (example, my news items) ?

I don't need all the extra stuff that this has. I would just like my users to be able to get a list of all threads marked as news.

Thanks,

Joey

You know this is cool, but here is my question. I have seen some other sites, like http://forums.somethingawful.com/ that have individual post icons per forum.

I'd be very interested in that too.

I'm assuming they're all in the same forum? If so, you can VERY easily make a link for new posts only from a certain forum, or all posts except from certain forums, or a combination.

SA's running a VERY old / outdated vB version. WHY I HAVE NO IDEA.

It's a different hack entirely, I'd have to look into the code to see how it's done. May want to put a request in the request area, as I wouldn't be surprised if someone could do it quicker than me :)

The posts are all in different forums and they are marked as news items based on their post icon.

hey will this work with 3.6 anyway to do this also without file edits ? plugin ?

Tested and works w/ 3.6.0, no code changes at all. You can find the 3.6.x thread for this hack here.

It would be very useful if someone could get somewhere with this.

We use one forum on our site for news with VBA and hence making it have different post icons to our normal forums would be great.