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.
I like text.
Why imitate banner ads when you don’t have to?
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.
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
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.
It’s not really a turn off, but it makes it look cluttered on my search.
