I set them last night, and I’m not sure how long it takes for those to show up on other instances. I am curious though, so if you wouldn’t mind dropping a comment if/when you notice the new icon/banner show up on your instances.

The winner of the pos-mens is @SatyrSack@feddit.org for the banner and for creating the animated icon. Honorable mention to @ptz@dubvee.org for the inspiration for the icon.

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    They’ll show up straight away, because changes to a community are federated out (so if someone is seeing your post, they’ll have the change to the community). Changes to user profiles profiles aren’t federated though, so it’s them that you have to wait for (different software refresh them at different intervals - Lemmy is 24 hrs I think).

    The icon isn’t animated on PieFed though, so I guess that’s something we’ll have to look into.

    • Jenny! [she/her]@dubvee.orgOPMEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Oh, I didn’t know that. My only experience with community changes propagating out is when I finally got around to adding rules to the sidebar, they didn’t show up on Lemmy World for about a day or so (probably 24hrs like you mentioned about user profiles).

      I asked for the icon submissions to be animated webp since they’re smaller and better quality than gifs. As a static image, does it at least show up in a way that makes sense?

      • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        I see the new icon/banner on my instance immediately! Which is good news

        EDIT: Oh, I see you said you had set them last night (Virginia time), not around the time this post was created. Still, it sounds like changes are immediate anyway.

        As a static image, does it at least show up in a way that makes sense?

        Looks alright to me from their instance! It seems to be using the very first frame of the animation. I can always recreate it to start at a different frame, if you want.

        • Jenny! [she/her]@dubvee.orgOPMEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          That is good news for the:

          I can always recreate it to start at a different frame, if you want.

          I think that looks okay. Appreciate it though.

  • Jenny! [she/her]@dubvee.orgOPMEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    @ptz@dubvee.org

    Might have found a bug. In Tesseract the new icon shows up in Subscribed but in Favorites it still shows the old icon:

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Kind of a bug yeah.

      When you favorite a community or add it to a group, it captures the community details at the time and stores it in your profile. If you un-favorite and then re-favorite it, it will update to use the community’s current values.

      I’ve been meaning to re-implement how groups/favorites are stored since it keeps a lot more information on hand than is really needed. Guess I’ll bump it up in priority on my to-do list.

    • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Do you have an example of a different community that has an animated icon? I think I might have also found a small bug in Thunder

        • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Darn. I think the animated icon is affecting the 30 Rock banner, but Astronomy does not have a banner, so I can’t use that to help troubleshoot. The 30 Rock banner looks great everywhere else, just not in Thunder.