Darren,
Personally, on my forum, I'll team the 'sun' icon up with colored cell bgcolors, even though I think it marks it nicely as it is. I just want to highlight the new threads a little more clearly.
As it is now, you do save the loading of the other images... if you don't use icons w/posts, you could remove them entirely from postlist and then you would only be loading the small sun or 'new' marker image for a few threads, instead of the entire collection of icons, or 4 different folders, in addition to a new marker image. So I think it saves a little loading time there as it is, and you can save more if you want to customize it a bit.
It kind of depends on the forum, and going back to the old way would be pretty easy, I'm sure. There actually doesn't have to be a column there if you don't want it. The new marker image could go after the thread link.
Muhammad Chishti
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