Just a small pet peeve. I know wealth of quality discussions and content is the key to a healthy community, but I find lack of an icon or banner to be a turn-off signaling low effort, especially if the community has been around for more than a week or so. Meh. Just my 2 cents.

  • @fuboM
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    81 year ago

    I like text.

    Why imitate banner ads when you don’t have to?

    • AwaOP
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      41 year ago

      Not saying you have to. Everyone has their own preferences and that’s fine. I guess I am just more inclined to visit the communities with an icon. Makes it seem to pop-out more, imo.

      I’ve enjoyed seeing some of the more creative ones that have versions of the lemmy mascot tweaked to match the theme of the community.

  • kanervatar
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    81 year ago

    Mm I would kind of prefer if there was more colour on Lemmy

  • @ElectroVagrantM
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    61 year ago

    I’m not put off by them personally, but I find that I do tend to overlook or mix up those without any icon to help distinguish them, especially those communities with either the same or similar names.

  • @TitanLaGrange
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    51 year ago

    Not me. I like text. I don’t want icons, avatars, banners, image backgrounds, etc. All text, all the time.

    I appreciate that others like those things, so I want the system to support them, but I want the option to remove all that stuff for my view, because it isn’t important or useful to me.

  • Bilb!
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    41 year ago

    Would you prefer if they were given automatically generated icons as long as they were left blank? I think that would make them more easily recognizable individually and visually consistent alignment-wise.

  • DAC Protogen
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    31 year ago

    I think that banners and icons are nice and useful for visual navigation, so I’d hope that communities consistently make use of them.

  • @MiddleWeigh
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    1 year ago

    It’s not really a turn off, but it makes it look cluttered on my search.