This one is super old and still references Reddit. A kind soul tried making a custom banner for us a while back, but I didn’t get much feedback when I posted about it so I just left things as they are and procrastination took over. I need help. I have zero artistic ability, and suck this sort of thing.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The crowd over at [email protected] generates images constantly, so if you’re up for an AI-generated image – which might permit for something with a more-cohesive feel than an image montage, might cross-post there to ask for submissions, get stuff maybe more like this:

    The existing banner appears to be a montage of images that were previously posted to /r/NCD. Like, the Democracy is Non-Negotiable image appears to be a rescaled version of this:

    https://old.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/yifpm6/3000_blatant_propaganda_pieces_of/

    Could patch together something out of those posts.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Well, it sounds like the existing one’s changing. You willing and able to hand-create and contribute something worthwhile yourself? If you’ve got a personal objection to generated images, that’d be a constructive way to provide a viable alternative.

      • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Yeah, this is our one chance to be family-friendly before being banned for something or other. This grease trap dweller under the Pentagon votes “modestly clothed”.

    • nuke@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Look, I already told you I suck at this (I’ll find out)

      Edit: 960x240, 4:1 ratio appears to be right answer

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          12 days ago

          investigates

          In my web browser, browsing the lemmy.today Web UI, looking at the homepage for the community, if I take a screenshot, the current banner appears to be displayed at 966x129; the actual underlying image is 4,000x533.

          Looking at a different community’s banner [email protected], I get 966x240 visible in a screenshot, with the underlying image being 1,792x672.

          So at least on my browser and viewed on that Lemmy frontend, I’m a little suspicious – without looking at the code – that 966 might be some kind of native target for width. It can clearly handle higher-res, and that might be desirable for some higher-resolution displays or clients, if they leverage that.

          EDIT: Man, this should be on some kind of Lemmy community moderation wiki. Like, every moderator shouldn’t have to individually figure this out.

          EDIT2: One reference to 960x240 that I can find is here, though as I said, it doesn’t appear to be quite right for native display resolution – on my browser, maybe just something wonky with me – and in that post, they point out that different themes can take advantage of higher resolution.

          EDIT3: In the CSS, at least in the current default Lemmy Web UI, it looks like .banner has a max-height attribute of 240px, so I think that it’s safe to say that at least in that environment, it won’t grow past that.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The current community rules require sourcing images used in art; Rule 8. Note that images from the US federal and state governments – which include a lot of official military images – are very commonly in the public domain and can be freely used. The Department of Defense explicitly places imagery without specific restrictions in the public domain.