What does everyone think? I think community icons (similar to user avatars that we already have) make sense, but I’m torn about banners (for both communities and users) , as they might look very strange with all the different possible themes users could use. What do you think?

  • wraptile
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    4 years ago

    I’d argue against it.

    I feel that banners got really abused and they are almost never useful. I think minimalism emphasizes on federation aspect of Lemmy, as in yes you’re on lemmy.dev/c/photography but you could easily be on foo.bar/c/photography and they are equally powerful communities just with different members/moderation.

    I’d say it would be better to give sidebar more power instead. It would provide customization for identity while not diminishing the above points.

    That being said going back to community’s front page is a bit hard. So some sort of extension to lemmy title that takes you back to c/whatever would be very convenient.