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!

  • @[email protected]
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    402 years ago

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

    • Gaywallet (they/it)M
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      222 years ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        92 years ago

        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.

    • pushka
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      62 years ago

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