I’d love to propose something like aboves picture as new instance icon - to make it more “lemmy-like” Maybe not my exact picture, which I put quickly together in photoshop, but maybe someone could smooth it out or make something similar to this.

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    I litterally left reddit and joined Lemmy today, so I don’t know if I’m doing this right, but anyway.

    I liked OP’s design, and i have a little bit of experience with illustrator (or in my case, affinity designer) so i made a high res version of OP’s original, and also some other versions with some changes which might help.

    Sorry OP, I cant remember how to do patterned strokes so the zip is a little off, but i tried to be as close to yours as I could.

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      Icon is up - i’ve used the bottom one, might try changing them out

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        Oh good, is that why the server went down? I was worried I crashed it by uploading 3 images. Again, very new to lemmy and the fediverse.

        Anyway, thanks for using my icon! If you need any changes I can have a look at it again tomorrow.

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          Server went down due to a database bug, thankfully it should be fixed in the next release: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3175

          Every 3 or 4 hours the database is locking up, causing CPU usage on the server to jump to 100% and then everything stops working. I think the process causing this gets killed by the host platform which allows the site to come back online again, but can take up to 5 minutes. Frustratingly there isnt much I can do about it other than wait it our for the devs to fix it :(

          Let me know what you think now the icon is up - once join-lemmy has updated too we should be able to see it there.

          Thanks to you and obviously to @[email protected] for designing this!

          If anyone fancies a stab at a banner image they’re more than welcome 🤣

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            I might have something there, which I built for myself years ago when I wanted to start a gaming youtube channel (still want to do it, but it’s always “next big game release I start” lmao)

            And I am quite proud of this one, might well for a gaming focused instance:
            either this one

            or this one

            I have the psd (photoshop files) for these here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yBxVpure_bwY32FwnCyDuZa6ynxgoCJ1?usp=sharing so one could rather easily replace a game with another (or whatever you want to have shown on the puzzle tiles)

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                Thanks :) I like how much you can do with it. For example I made a version for my profile with the Lemmy.zip logo and the communities I moderate:

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      Man those ones are awesome!

      Second one is my favorite, it comes closest to my idea that the left eye is the zipper thingy.

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        Cheers! And same to you, I like the design.

        I’m not really that creative, just good at making high res stuff since it used to be my job

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          Could you make a version of the second one with the ears and the whiskers behind the head?

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            Here you go, a version of your original with fixed ears and whiskers:

            And @[email protected], here’s a fixed version of the one that is up at the moment, I’m not used to the actual Lemmy logo yet so I didn’t notice it was off haha

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            Oh yeah, I didn’t even notice that they moved to the front, whoops.

            I’ll have a look