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Support and meta community for Beehaw. Ask your questions about the community, technical issues, and other such things here.

A brief FAQ for lurkers and new users can be found here.

Our July 2023 financial update is here.

For a refresher on our philosophy, see also What is Beehaw?, The spirit of the rules, and Beehaw is a Community


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

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hey folks, quick update to say you've probably noticed our new community icons.

these icons were lovingly crafted by @[email protected], who posted them a couple of days ago over in Creative. we took notice of them and obviously--because they're our community icons now--really, really liked them.

thanks to his generosity in working things out with us, we're pleased to announce we can use his icons under a Creative Commons license for the site! until further notice they'll be our site icons, with credit to him on our sidebars. we'll also be adding attribution to the community sidebars over the rest of day as time permits.

we're also pleased to report that, thanks to your generosity, we've been able to reasonably compensate him for all 33 of the icons he's made for the community! the agreed to rate is $5 per icon, for a total of $165 that's been paid out to him as of today. this expense has been reflected on our Open Collective. (we've also agreed to, as possible, commission him for any future community icons until further notice, which will be subject to that same rate.)

hopefully you enjoy the new icons, and please thank UrLogicFails for the work here! thanks for using the site again folks!

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think this is the first time that I saw someone's voluntary art work compensated after being implemented in a community. The transparency is surreal and very admirable. Thank you for compensating artists and valuing the art that @[email protected] made c:

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Said this in a private chat, but I'll repeat it here for transparency

While we can't guarantee anything with regards to donations, I will always vote to pay artists even if it meant we had to go begging for donos to help run the site later

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Agreed! The icons are great, and the open compensation and transparency is lovely as well.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love the new icons, it's much easier for me to immediately identify which communities are beehaw vs not-beehaw in jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, a distinct theme will help remind people from other instances to beehave when they participate on ours 😄

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One thing I just noticed: some of the community sidebars have a blurb about the icons' authorship and licensing, but the license link may need to be clarified. On Gaming and Technology, for example, the text of the link says CC BY 4.0, but the underlying link points to CC BY-SA 4.0.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

working on it lol, most of them don't even have it yet

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes! Love seeing where home is at a glance~ they're beautiful ! 💕

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the icons, @[email protected] !

And thanks to the admins for making this happen. I love the new theme for the icons. Bzzzz! 🐝

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congrats, @[email protected]!

The transparency of expenses really helps bolster trust and it's awesome we're compensating an artist for their work! Gives a little bit of hope.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed! I know many would contribute for free to help the server, but art is so chronically underpaid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the amount of times we hear people trying to get out of paying the artist or designer...it really put me off trying to freelance as an artist (not to mention the anxiety making art brought me lately...)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

yOu'Re GeTtiNg eXpOsUrE FrOm Us

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Noticed them immediately! I love yellow accents on things, and fits right into the bee theme being a hexagon (bestagon) and all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I see you're a person of taste

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you @[email protected] and the rest of the Beehaw admin team. You all have been so welcoming (not just to me, but to everyone), and I look forward to working with you more in the future!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I love the icons! Congrats! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with for future new communities.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love the style!

Now how do we integrate a hive into the iconography?!? ;)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

These icons are a great way to identify the local Beehaw communities.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

chef's kiss on the new icons. I love the honeycomb design, it's super easily recognizable.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The icons are gorgeous, and I like the idea that Beehaw basically has “branding” on their communities. This proves a visual clue to folks new to a fediverse where a particular community is coming from. It would be nice if more servers did similar.

I wonder if at a future point, folks who signed up on Beehaw as their “home server” could get a yellow hexagon frame for their avatar. It would help visually unite and convey the idea of the user and their local environment while reinforcing the idea of what a fediverse does.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The icons look great!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

They look great! They really tie the room together.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This post right here has convinced me that Beehaw is something special. It makes me so happy to see the community respected in this way

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love the icon set, really love that @[email protected] gets more than just credit.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

They look amazing! I much prefer how they fit the layout than the old icons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I really like them more . Great job guys

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Looks great!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

they look lovely :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They really pop out nicely!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I like the consistency! good job admins and @[email protected]!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love the new icons, now they fit perfectly with the instance. I think that we also need a new logo, maybe a more minimalistic one (while still having the cowboy bee).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think it would be super cool to regularly rotate the logo with user submitted and/or funded art, but I might be a little eclectic 😅

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would love a rotating logo like this. It would be awesome, and tbh why should we be concerned with branding? Why can't our brand be "kickass cowboy bee art"?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Fit perfectly is right. I refreshed and my eyes instantly detected a change but it took a minute to hone in on what it was. They just fit in like they’ve always been there. Fantastic execution.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Loving the new icons, it really adds to the beehaw community!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

When I made my contribution I was only thinking about the technical side, but I am pleased to see that I'm now also a patron of the arts. This is a great development and makes me look forward to what's in store as this project develops. Thanks for thinking bigger.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The new icons look great! They really help instantly distinguish that a post is on Beehaw with the honeycomb design.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I think this is great. To have some consistency in community group icons presents a more cohesive look overall.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the icons and I am fully behind making sure the artist is paid. Win win! :)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Love the new icons, and love love the fact that Beehaw is treating the creator right. That makes this site's team better than AMPTP!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

they look great!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They look great! 🐝

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I love them, they're beeutiful! 🐝

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They look nice! Fits a lot more with the instance's theme. Awesome work!

By the way, are there any news on updating the instance to the newest Lemmy release, if it isn't already?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we should be doing this tomorrow around 7 or 7:30 am ET, with up to 30 minutes of downtime.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Nice. Thank you for answering :D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

These are fantastic. Love the honeycomb design.

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