Different icon for official communities

[cesy]

Title:
Different icon for official communities

Area:
communities

Summary:
Change the userhead icon for official communities to one that looks official, like the ones for staff journals do.

Description:
Staff journals have a grey userhead with the DW swirl wrapped around it instead of the normal grey userhead. It would be good if official communities had the DW swirl over their blue-green circle, so they immediately look different from ordinary communities, as well as having dw_ at the start of their names.

Poll #1046 Different icon for official communities

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 54

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Should be implemented as-is.
50 (92.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
3 (5.6%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.9%)

Comments

[zarhooie]

I am swinging both ways on this. On the one hand, an immediate visual indicator would be sort of nice. On the other hand, the name of the community is DW_Comm, with the DW being assigned only to official communities.

[cesy]

Though of course, changelog is official and doesn't start dw_, and there are a couple of unofficial communities starting dreamwidth_, which is slightly confusing for new people.

However, as you say, the official list of communities and dw_ should cover it; I just find that the different icon makes it stand out more easily.

[kate_nepveu]

Would it be better for changelog to have its name changed, instead?

[cesy]

That might also be a good idea, but I have a vague idea it's technically complicated, or they would have done it at the same time as news and suggestions.

Also, does dreamscapes count as official? I like the name, and wouldn't want them to change it, though.

[zvi]

Also, the official status of dreamscapes is unclear to me. It is being used to conduct official business (submission of layers), but is it official?

[triadruid]

A visual indicator is a much better solution to me. I don't know that your average user is going to know that the dw_ prefix is reserved, and there have already been several exceptions noted.

[afuna]

Chose for it to be implemented as-is, but I'm not sure how image would look with the swirl over it! hopefully good, though *g*

[azurelunatic]

This.

[triadruid]

Something like ? I'm not sure how you'd have it swirl 'behind' the globe, as the swirl and the globe are almost the same size, and DW probably doesn't want to increase the width/height of that icon, for formatting reasons...

[triadruid]

Nevermind, I misread a preposition there. :)

(and please don't use that icon as the official if this goes live, it's a crappy GIMP sketch)

[zvi]

That is not good, not because it is not goodlooking, but because it is practically the same shape as the regular comm userhead. All of the userheads should have different shapes as well as different colors. (for color accessibility and for usability.)

[triadruid]

If you say so. At 16x16, the difference between the user_staff icon and the community icon are already minimal, especially in grayscale.

[zvi]

Damn, you are right. We made sure that the user icon and the user_staff icon had different shapes, but weren't really looking at user_staff vs community. :(