I like text.
Why imitate banner ads when you don't have to?
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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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.
Mm I would kind of prefer if there was more colour on Lemmy
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.
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.
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.
Ya that's a good idea
I think that banners and icons are nice and useful for visual navigation, so I'd hope that communities consistently make use of them.
It's not really a turn off, but it makes it look cluttered on my search.