Make it look like YouTube:

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and when you have new messages, the envelope opens. Just a nice touch to it. :cool:

But then you'd get little pathetic people saying: "that's copying Youtube".

nah i think having the existing simple version goes more inline with how ipb is now and its feel, if someone wants icon or colouring on different parts they can do it in a new skin i recon.

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Plus the my assistant pops up when you get a new message.

Plus the my assistant pops up when you get a new message.

Yeah, but the new message counter resets to 0 if you don't read all the PMs before going to another page.