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 @UrLogicFails@beehaw.org made c:
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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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
Agreed! The icons are great, and the open compensation and transparency is lovely as well.
I love the new icons, it's much easier for me to immediately identify which communities are beehaw vs not-beehaw in jerboa.
Yes, a distinct theme will help remind people from other instances to beehave when they participate on ours 😄
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.
working on it lol, most of them don't even have it yet
Yes! Love seeing where home is at a glance~ they're beautiful ! 💕
Thank you @alyaza@beehaw.org 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!
I love the icons! Congrats! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with for future new communities.
Love the style!
Now how do we integrate a hive into the iconography?!? ;)
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Noticed them immediately! I love yellow accents on things, and fits right into the bee theme being a hexagon (bestagon) and all.
I see you're a person of taste
Congrats, @UrLogicFails@beehaw.org!
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.
Agreed! I know many would contribute for free to help the server, but art is so chronically underpaid.
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...)
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These icons are a great way to identify the local Beehaw communities.
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
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.
The icons look great!
They look great! They really tie the room together.
I love the icons and I am fully behind making sure the artist is paid. Win win! :)
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chef's kiss on the new icons. I love the honeycomb design, it's super easily recognizable.
I think this is great. To have some consistency in community group icons presents a more cohesive look overall.
They look amazing! I much prefer how they fit the layout than the old icons.
excellent
Love the new icons and I really love that the artist was compensated for his work.
The new icons look great! They really help instantly distinguish that a post is on Beehaw with the honeycomb design.
they look lovely :)
Love them! And yes for consistency. Great work.
I really like them more . Great job guys
Looks great!
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.
They really pop out nicely!
Loving the new icons, it really adds to the beehaw community!
I like the consistency! good job admins and @UrLogicFails@beehaw.org!
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).
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.
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The new icons look really good, but unfortunately they are not really fulfilling their full purpose. The purpose of an icon is primarily to make it easier to distinguish between different communities in this case. The most noticeable features of these icons are the outer shape and the colour scheme, this makes it easy to distinguish between Beehaw communities and non Beehaw communities (so far so good). But it almost makes it harder to separate between the different Beehaw communities, since that information only resides within the inner symbol of the icon and that is far less prominent than the color and the outer shape. Unfortunately, we tend to think things with symmetry looks better, which makes a good looking icon theme and a usable icon theme a bit orthogonal.
So, while I really like the look of the icons (and how they tie in to the Bee theme of the site), I'm not a fan of the usability aspect of them.
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Pretty phenomenal. Love you uniformity it gives the Beewas SubLems.
Love the icon set, really love that @UrLogicFails@beehaw.org gets more than just credit.
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Bees!
The icons look fantastic! I like seeing at a glance what's what via the bright symbols, as sometimes my vision isn't the best.