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[Meta] Could we maybe consider something else than the EU flag for the community icon? (dormi.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by Servais@dormi.zone to c/europe

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Hello everyone,

This community is only a few hours old, and already there is a meta post ha ha.

I was just thinking that the EU flag doesn't include non-EU countries such as Switzerland, the UK, Norway, Ukraine, Iceland, Albania, Georgia, etc.

Maybe a more "map-based" logo like this one could be considered too?

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[–] Servais@dormi.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you for your comment!

As a comparison, the way !yurop@lemm.ee icon looks:

I guess the shape of the continent is unique enough to be distinguishable

[–] federalreverse 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This is what that looks like in Photon (e.g. at https://p.feddit.org):

And in the bottom bar, next to each other:

(Granted, it's a little unfair, since Photon in particular appears to scale the icons in a dumb way.)

[–] Servais@dormi.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Seems reasonable on desktop, people are usually not having to look at the icon so much, they just want a way to quickly identify which community it is

Mobile might be another story

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's dumb about the scaling? The resolution? if so, I'll fix that.

[–] federalreverse 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ooh, thank you! Sorry for the way I worded it. Anyway: To me, it looks weirdly pixelated, as if either:

It doesn't take into account high-PPI screens and scales the image file for a 96ppi screen and then the browser scales it up to display size or
It just takes a file with huge image resolution and the browser scales it down quickly on the fly.

You can look at my screenshots.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 3 points 1 month ago

I'll try and fix that soon.