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.
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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
.bannerhas amax-heightattribute of 240px, so I think that it’s safe to say that at least in that environment, it won’t grow past that.The Lemmy mobile apps probably also handle banners differently
I will zap you with my zat if you don’t have an amazing Cake Day!
Aww thanks, I will indeed!