Wanted to run a poll about the community icons to choose between a couple options
Option 1 - Use UBP icons - Use unified icons for all of the communities similar to beehaw
Option 2 - Use UBP for general communities and specific language, etc. icons for specific communities
Option 3 - Dont use UBP icons
Vote using the strawpoll here (doing strawpoll so it can be ranked voting)
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EDIT: I have remade the poll with two more options. If you voted in the previous one please vote again in this. The new options are just for adding different colored gradients to the unified icons for different communities
I like the bottom one the best (option 3) for the reason that they have different colours. The colour tells something about the community you're looking for.
A 4th option where you still have the UBP icons, but with the colours as shown in the bottom picture would be a good middleground. (Option: 'Use UBP icons everywhere but with different colored gradients')
I think the poll is too confusing with the 5 options of which are all very Similar, to be honest. Actually I'm already not sure what I've voted for and it's just a moment ago 😅
I would say just do what you think looks the best regards the poll.
Maybe just let each communities decide? If some want to have a uniform theme between them let them have it and if others don't too. Like, I wouldnt like to see any style, or lack of, being enforced on anyone.
I can't vote due to VPN, but the UBP icons look awesome, and I think using them across the board will look great. With specific language icons, can still use the actual icon with the modified color gradient (like git community is) and still gets the point across and looks great IMO.
Yes! You could also change the post so all the options have a preview like you did before adding the new poll options. So changing "Quick example of this:" to "Option 4 - ... "
Wow, the multi color gradients per different community is rather clean, but still aids in rapid legibility. Still think shape masking should be left to the user's chosen theme or client side rendering, but the neon on black is warming up to me.
My top choice for icon shape is definitely the vertical hexagons we have now, but the poll should probably include options for both vertical and horizontal hexagons. Maybe square and squircle as well.
I think this should be done via CSS, rather than baking in the masked shape into the PNGs. We could customize our instance's default bootstrap theme for Lemmy-UI. This would allow us to keep the icon artwork unaltered as full-size square canvases, then mask them client side based on the user's preferred theme or custom layout. E.g. allowing the user to distinguish user avatars versus community icons based on masking shape, like on GitHub.
There is a growing development of RES like user side enhancements for Lemmy:
Yeah, I suspect the current poll rankings are a little biased from the initial ordering of the ranked options. I think strawpoll.com's website should randomize the initial ordering per voter, as well as ask the user to move options from one column to a second columb to make the UI more apparent that all options should be re-ranked by the voter.
I have a question. If these were the final results (in descending order of votes):
x1 votes for UBP icons for non-language-specific communities
y1 votes for UBP everywhere
y2 votes for colorful UBP everywhere
x2 votes for colorful UBP icons for non-language-specific communities
z votes for no UBP icons
Where y1 + y2 > x1 + x2, so more people wanted UBP everywhere but because of the two independent options (where to use them and what color), their votes got fragmented, what is the right course of action?
I think it would have been better to have two polls, one about the question of using visually consistent icons and another one about what they should look like.
Looks like strawpoll.com is simply ranked only, not necessarily RCV. True RCV could solve this problem by allowing instant runoffs after closing polls: