This bird is full of symbolism:
- Birds represent freedom, hope, etc.
- Also, as a way to represent the people who “flew away” from Reddit.
- The bird is from Oceania, sounds silly but is not a animal commonly found in nature outside that place, meaning it evokes foreignity for a part of the userbase here.
- C’mon guys, is a Cacatua, it can’t get cooler than that…
This is such a great explanation man. Now tell me, how do you collapse comment threads?
I don’t think there’s a way to do it by default but, if you use userscripts, there’s one for collapsing comments.
No offense, but what is wrong with the current icon? The purple folder looks great.
A mascot is not necessarily an alternative to an icon - they can coexist. A few people just like having a mascot for software projects, similar to the lemming of Lemmy or the Reddit alien. :)
A folder isn’t “fun.” Like, reddit has the Snoo alien or whatever, and they went the extra mile of letting users represent themselves with custom Snoo avatars made up of preset parts like a character creator. It’s fun, and having a mascot here would be fun too.
Looks a bit microsofty to me, tbh. Like it’s another app in the office suite.
/u/fixedfun 's parrot is more lighthearted. Like the snapchat ghost or twitter bird.
Apparently there’s a kbin app in development. Don’t feel the folder thing is a good fit for an app tile tbh.
Yeah, but the kbin app already has a logo, it looks like a little bow and arrows. Or maybe the bow is a moon? It has arrows. I find the various elements questionably sized in relation to each other, but aside from that I like it.
Though tbh, if it somehow didn’t, I’d be happy with the folder symbol. I think where logos are concerned, likely I just really like simple designs and dislike animals
As others have said… a mascot.
But, what would be great in my opinion would be the current folder icon shape stylized like a birds wings.
E.g. flying free amongst the various places of the fediverse
If it incorporated the folder icon into the animal I would love it. The icon is like a shorthand version of it. A kangaroo or koala bear with a pouch that is folder like. WHY a bird?
https://media.giphy.com/media/l0K469pnf9MH9ktDa/giphy.gif
Kbin terrorizing Spez.
Not sure about others, but I feel that the bird would be better for bringing in new users who made not be as tech inclined versus the folder. The name “kbin” already has some tech connotations to begin with. For the average user, thinking of a bird when they see the app would probably be better versus the windows file explorer or some MS office/development app. The folder icon doesn’t have to be trashed though, as stated, they can coexist.
I, too, prefer the design on the left; however, If I may make a suggestion, I would flip it horizontally so the bird faces the right. As you know, western printed language flows from left to right; from a design perspective, the aesthetic of right-facing imagery subtly implies a “forward” direction, or moving forward to the future. Considering the purpose of this icon in this new frontier, I think that would be appropriate.
Fantastic design, and I think the subtle gradient you dropped in the background is a nice touch.
I don’t think Kbin needs a mascot. It needs to be its own thing rather than just a reddit 2.0.
I think Kbin does need a mascot, like everything has a mascot. For Tesla you got the T Logo thing, for Facebook you got the F Blue, for Twitter it’s a white Bird
Just my opinion tho
But…the letter T isn’t a mascot. None of those are mascots. They’re logos.
I understand the need to lay claim to a place meant for individualized communication, but I’m personally a little annoyed by the insistence of it. I’m not interested in cute squishy mascots. Having a fun animal as the face of anything reminds me of every lame corporation’s attempts to look appealing.
I recognize there’s little to no way I’m going to win this fight, but it’s in the same vein as the continual server-specific nickname suggestions for functionally the same userbase speaking in the same shared forums.
I think we’re doing it because we’re used to seeing companies do it, a la every one of them you mentioned. A bunch of us probably liked the Snoo, snoo was cute. It makes sense for newly ex-redditors to immediately remake their own snoo that is theirs and theirs alone and way better than the stinky reddit snoo.
Being used to your company of choice having customer friendly anthro mascots and tribalistic nicknames doesn’t make it something we need, and that I intended to leave all of that behind when I left isn’t helping my bias in this.
Especially where site-wide symbols like the ones you cited are concerned. I don’t think I’m going to end up liking anything that’s chosen simply because the kbin logo is already kbin, it was here when I got here, and I genuinely think it’s really snazzy. Kudos to the designer who took two things I passionately hate — minimalist artwork and the color purple — and combined them into something enjoyable
Ehhh i can see your point but i still think a Symbol for Kbin, a logo, a mascot or anything is absolutely beneficial for Kbin as a whole. People need a symbol to stand behind, a Simple and Recognizable Symbol for Kbin would benefit Kbin as a whole, not to mention it would give tiny bit of content to Kbin as people will discuss about the Logo, will draw the Logo, stuff like that.
Besides the Current Kbin Logo looks great already
tesla has a dog nose and it annoys the crap out of me. how does a dog nose connect to the invention of electricity in any way? it’s not thematic at all. should have been a tesla coil.
I prefer the folder icon kbin already has.