I’m not sure if people care all that much, but whenever I visit this community I can’t help but notice the fairly ugly icon and banner which is clearly AI generated.

Would it be worth updating these? Heck I can make something for the community if needed

  • @[email protected]
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    120 minutes ago

    oh holy christ i’ve never actually seen it before just now. it does have a certain “placeholder” vibe to it.

  • Pika
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    6 hours ago

    The banner I can see yea I never noticed that before, but I like the community icon, it isn’t a currently valid gamepad(that I can recognize), but gets the point across it’s game related without hinting at a prioritization or preference of system.

    If the icon changed I would love if it kept it’s individuality by remaining a fake controller instead of being an image(or depiction) of a real one.

  • @DharkStare
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    10 hours ago

    The app I use to browse Lemmy doesn’t show banners so I never noticed but once I pulled it up in browser I agree 100%. That’s a really bad banner.

    • shrugs
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      710 hours ago

      Second that. AI these days: as if nobody here could create a screenshot from its steam library: like [email protected] already did. I bet prompting AI even took longer to create that shitty version of a steam library.

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    12 hours ago

    I agree 100%, both look super ugly

    As an alternative, there are tons of gamepad icons on freepik like this one that could be used as long as theres an attribution link in the community description.

    Also here’s a quick collage I screenshotted from steamdb, feel free to use it if there aren’t any better ones by others:

    • Pika
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      that site must not work on mobile, every picture posted there is in black and white for me, which makes them look really ugly

      The second link works though, as long as I stay on that image

      Yeah definitely a mobile thing, because I just changed the filter over to gradient and you can tell there’s slight color involved but everything looks like shown through a dirty glass pane

      I love that Banner though

  • @maplebar
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    17 hours ago

    Holy shit that’s ugly, lmao. Yeah, trash the slop.

  • @Grimy
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    1312 hours ago

    I kind of dig the icon but yes, the banner is simply awful.

    • @Reddfugee42
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      38 hours ago

      What exactly do you dig about the icon? 😅

      • Pika
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        35 hours ago

        For myself, I love the fact that it’s clear that it’s not an actual game controller, however you can tell it is meant to be. This gives the first glance look at a community that is gaming related without defaulting to a specific platform.

        I would say that if the game controller icon gets changed it should keep that individuality, meaning that I wouldn’t recommend it become a picture of an actual controller or a diagram depicting an actual controller

      • @Grimy
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        16 hours ago

        The colors and it looks like a child’s drawing, which is fun.