Just a small pet peeve. I know wealth of quality discussions and content is the key to a healthy community, but I find lack of an icon or banner to be a turn-off signaling low effort, especially if the community has been around for more than a week or so. Meh. Just my 2 cents.
I like text.
Why imitate banner ads when you don’t have to?
Not me. I like text. I don’t want icons, avatars, banners, image backgrounds, etc. All text, all the time.
I appreciate that others like those things, so I want the system to support them, but I want the option to remove all that stuff for my view, because it isn’t important or useful to me.
Would you prefer if they were given automatically generated icons as long as they were left blank? I think that would make them more easily recognizable individually and visually consistent alignment-wise.
Ya that’s a good idea
It’s not really a turn off, but it makes it look cluttered on my search.
I’m not put off by them personally, but I find that I do tend to overlook or mix up those without any icon to help distinguish them, especially those communities with either the same or similar names.
I think that banners and icons are nice and useful for visual navigation, so I’d hope that communities consistently make use of them.
