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
            51·
            29 days ago

            I don’t think that it’ll likely hit that level, but note that sh.itjust.works has an instance rule against pornography (which is certainly not strictly adhered to, probably not even in the past image submissions on this community). But just saying, given that a community banner image is probably higher-profile than a one-off image submission.

        • sbvEnglish
          4·
          29 days ago

          T I D D I C E L L S

    • nukeOPMEnglish
      10·
      28 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
          7·
          29 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.

          • nukeOPMEnglish
            2·
            29 days ago

            The Lemmy mobile apps probably also handle banners differently

            • verity_kindleMEnglish
              2·
              28 days ago

              I will zap you with my zat if you don’t have an amazing Cake Day!

              • nukeOPMEnglish
                3·
                28 days ago

                Aww thanks, I will indeed!

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    10·
    29 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.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    102·
    29 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.

    • JumutaEnglish
      9·
      29 days ago

      I prefer the old one over anything ai generated tbh

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        29 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_kindleMEnglish
        1·
        28 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”.

        • sepi@piefed.social
          3·
          28 days ago

          Why would a plane need clothes? You ever seen an F16 wearing pants? Get outta here with that shiz

          • verity_kindleMEnglish
            2·
            27 days ago

            🎶 One of us, one of us, gibble gabble, one of us, gibble gabble 🎶