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Everyone, we need to spruce the place up, so we wanted to reach out to you all for submissions for the icon and banner. Here's the idea: submit icons and banners (SFW please). I'll leave this stickied for 72 hours, then we'll pick the most popular of each by upvotes.

I couldn't find specs on icon dimensions, but it appears icons are square and tend to look best at least 256 x 256. Banners tend to be...rectangularish. Here are three banner examples: ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 )

As always, let me know if you have questions.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

As this community shows up as 196 in web (not on yoyager) Can we rename it to 198? Just so we can easily see which one we're going to? πŸ˜…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it may be better to collect ideas first and then create a new post with all the entries as comments. Currently whatever gets commented first has the advantage of time to collect the votes. Just a thought tho.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Probably let this thread run for a few days, and then create a poll thread with all the suggestions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Why not use the one from Reddit, it has 196 Mascot in it

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Here's a 512Β² icon:

If anyone wants the SVG file to edit it further, here's a link.

The shark was stolen from a Reddit post and then manually redrawn by me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

This is my vote. This one's quality.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

That's beautiful! Chef's kiss mwah right there!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Surfacing this to the top for visibility, the old banner but as a Niko Oneshot textbox:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think if we're gonna tell any extremists to fuck off, it should be nazis. Obviously tankies are shit and not welcome, but as a left leaning person I've been called a tankie for vanilla anticapitalism, and seeing it on the banner always put a bad taste in my mouth

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Part of the problem is that tankies might actually think they're welcome, not just here, but most places on this instance. Nazis know they aren't welcome in a queer instance by its very nature.

That said, I get what you mean. It'd be best to have protecting queers & other minoritized groups in a banner as well, as Nazis are who we usually need protecting from

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

no rule in title = eat 100 gummy sharks as punishment

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

no rule in title = molten gold poured down ones throat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

196 you mean.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Rule old rule

Icon:

Banner:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Like someone else said, bad memories for that though i would rock with the same banner text in a different design

but also, taking one last opportunity: wtf is the icon?

i recently realized half of it at least is Armenian Corey

something else is overlaid and i can’t tell what…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was the reddit icon at the time of migration two years ago. It's the default subreddit icon overlayed with armenian corey overlayed with a funny looking bird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ah! i see the subreddit icon but i can’t make out the bird

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

the bird is a little difficult to see because I'm pretty sure they were slowly adding more opacity to Armenian Cory

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How about a Niko Oneshot textbox:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yus ! 😍😍 please post as a top level comment if you haven’t so it can be considered

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I like the old banner, just needs something behind it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Bad memories rule.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

On the default lemmy ui at least, it looks like icons tend to be either ~20x20 when they're the small circle in the actual post, and 120x120 when they're in the community view as the 2 main sizes, and 24x24 also shows up in the community list section. Figured I'd mention some sizes in case it helps anyone designing an icon!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Folks might want to see how these look at those dimensions:

20x20

120x120

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Good idea yeah! The 20x20 one will look a little more crunchy than the actual icon would end up, since the actual image file is still higher quality than 20x20 in terms of pixel density, its just the displayed height/width that gets smaller.

The 20x20 one will probably be closer to the same quality as the 120x120 one you posted (probably a bit more blurry), and the 120x120 size will be closer to the full quality one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks for bringing this up! I was skeptical anything remotely complex would look good in the 20x20 when I first saw the original response

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] also submitted an alternate icon version.

Shark

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I'm voting for this one (and the one with blue bg too)

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

@[email protected] submitted this icon earlier so I wanted to ensure it gets in.

Shark