The details such as ears, whiskers, nose are way too small. They're hardly recognisable on a mobile device, app icon wise.
I love the app but the new icon / logo not so much.
100% agree. I really enjoy the app and Kuro has done amazing work, but this logo misses the mark tbh. I'm definitely no graphics designer (just someone who knows enough to make shitty memes), but the alignment is all over the place with this logo.
Often things need to be off center, and not perfect circles because of how humans perceive things... But here it's is really flawed, and doesn't look good or professional at all.
Damn, I knew the mouse face looked odd.
Thanks for this image, I was thinking the same. I feel like it would work to just put the ears on top of the C. Maybe add a nod to the whiskers with some lines around the edge.
Replying to myself here, but I was bored on my lunch break and playing around. You can have the logo centered and still have the Lemmy face, but at small sizes (like a phone's app icon), you're definitely going to lose the small details (ears, nose, whiskers).
If there's an actual graphics designer out there, feel free to steal anything I've done haha.
If it were centered it would be offcenter
I only noticed the mouse when I saw the logo in this thread. On my home screen it's barely noticeable. I do think there's something to the idea of hiding it in there somehow, but it could use some refinement.
I personally dislike the ears and whiskers a lot. Not sure why exactly, I just really hate it. To the point that it's no longer on my home screen. I may even look for other apps. It's bizarre that it bothers me this much, but it really does.
I think its because from a distance the ears and whiskers just look like glitched pixels or something. When i first saw it i thought something was up with my screen for a hot sec
I think it looks a bit weird, I don't really care about adding a lemming to every lemmy app icon but I think something like this would be a bit more interesting.
That looks great. I'll try making a rough draft of a digital version tomorrow.
Edit: Might be Aug 17th instead of today Aug 16th, as I am doing some stuff, as I was quite busy today with registering blendOS as a project on the libera.chat IRC and some personal things like getting a job, and I have a doctor appointment later today. Sorry that this update is a bit offtopic from the sublemmy this comment is on.
Edit 2: Edited Edit 1 a bit to provide more clarity.
seconded!
I was kind of surprised by the logo after the update, as it looks very similar to the Covid warn app from Germany: https://www.coronawarn.app/de/
I think we are ok. From what I could find, lemmings are not a carrier of COVID-19, thank goodness. ("Lemmings with COVID" are not to be mistaken for "COVID lemmings". I think that was some anti-vax slang.)
The absolute worst they can host is the bubonic plague, so we are fine. There is nothing quite like a morning bleed out your eyeballs to perk you up!
💀
The German Covid app logo looks much better than the Canadian one, which is just the Maple leaf being attacked by grey triangles.
Has it really only been two months? It feels like longer.
I agree feels longer. 2 months and 136 releases! (although most of those releases are minor changes).
136 releases! 🤣 That's true dedication. Thanks so much for your hard work
Still an incredible work. We can't thank you enough!
Honestly, the old app logo was better. This doesn't look professional.
This. The new logo looks horrible!
The idea is nice, but the execution is awful. E.g. why is the center of the C so skewed?
I hope it's not some situation where the Devs girlfriend created it, and he doesn't want to change it because of that and we will be really stuck with this... ruining the app a bit.
Haha, I have no one to blame but myself unfortunately! I did make a change to the inner circle of the C making it less skewed based on all the feedback.
There is a mouse in it. And yeah, I liked the old logo better too.
The new update RULES. The UI is just souch more polished and I love the blue implementation for NSFW (in lieu of bright red call-out). Also you implemented the tap to u hide and tap again to rehide! THAT WAS MY FAVORITE FEATURE some other apps had!
Connect has beeny fave since I found it and it just keeps getting better, thanks so much.
The idea is fine, the execution has lots of room for improvement.
Congrats! I really appreciate how responsive and attentive you are with the community, pumping out fixes and feature updates basically on the fly. I don't mean to simp, but I just want you to know it doesn't go unnoticed, even if some of us are consistently posting about something. 😅
Really great app. Notifications are still iffy sometimes, but everything else is fantastic
I'll take a look at notifications! I know the current implementation is pretty simple.
Thank you so much. Just so you know, your app is the only app beside Voyager that got the access to notifications right. I love how when I click on a notification, it takes me directly to that comment. No other app does that, and I really appreciate it.
The old one felt like a logo for a high school online assignment submission website
I think it could do without the mouse, but other than that it looks much much better
Unlike the app, the logo isn't great. Old one was better but understand the desire to change it.
I'm liking the new logo change and it's impressive how feature rich the app is after only two months. It's my favorite lemmy app.
Congrats and happy birthday! I left Reddit during the blackout and your app made the transition way easier, thank you so much for this. I like the concept behind the new logo and I'm happy to see it evolving in future updates, cheers!
When I moved over during the Great Migration, Connect pretty quickly emerged as the best app for me, and honestly it still is.
Thanks for your work on the app and being responsive/implementing suggestions.
Congrats to the best Lemmy app!
Thanks a lot for all the hard work! It's a really great app I quickly grew fond of.
Much better. Older logo looked very.. uninspiring.
It looks like you used the logo to squash a bug
I'm a ^deliciousss human, just like you
also like the old one better but I guess the execution is just not perfect yet. Hopefully you get someone to improve it a little. Anyway you are doin great work @kuro_neko, I bought u a big coffee
The old one felt too much like a mobile game logo
To me it felt like a news site logo or something made before 2014.
I don't understand anything about logos and graphic but for sure I can say I love your app. The few beers I offered you aren't enough, I hope you can put it on your resume and find a stellar job lol
I appreciate the support!
Just a heads up, getting a lot of freezes and crashes post update.
Love the app. Hoping for an instance migration took more than a new logo. Keep on pumping out the great work
Congratulations! You have done an amazing job on this app. I was running it alongside Sync just to compare and I kept gravitating to Connect. It's actually better imo. So I removed Sync and use Connect only. Great job! And thank you 🙂🙏
Congrats, great App and dedication! Boom!
Doing great! Also love the new logo.
Thanks for the wonderful app. I am facing problem when switching the account. It is allowing to sign-in from different accounts but I am unable to switch accounts.
I had that happen a few times. After you switch accounts once, wait a few seconds and select the account you want to switch to again
I've been dealing with it for about 2 weeks myself. Not a huge deal, I just sign out, and back in, but the feature for switching definitely doesn't work for me.
gradients are my passion
This is an improvement though!
Love the logo! Bought you some coffees. Great app.
Thank you!
Huh, I knew the color scheme had changed. Def missed the mouse. Couldn't care less about the logo. I enjoy app. Best option I've found so far.....we'll see how Boost for Lemmy shakes out. Was my fav 3rd party for that other shit site.
This logo is so much better!
Beautiful
When will it be FOSS?
Hi, it's on the roadmap but I don't have a specific timeline I can share. There's some other big features I want to integrate first like tablet UI and iOS-support.
Woah super neat, I see there’s a lot of criticisms already regarding the aesthetics and symmetry so I won’t bother adding on to that - just wanted to say I really like the idea!
