Feddit UK
Community for the Feddit UK instance.
A place to log issues, and for the admins to communicate with everyone.
I feel like this quote from Mark Corrigan has suited me well a few times, maybe it's a British thing. I'm just putting it out there.
looking at the ranking site, we don’t seem to have a banner.
I saw this too, thanks for doing something about it - I probably got distracted by something.
It would help us put our best foot forward by giving us our best bib and tucker.
One thing I have struggled with is dimensions/aspect ratio for banners. I did look this up and the advice I found was along the lines of, it'll resize things, so don't worry, which is fine as far as it goes but it does mean a banner will display differently.
On the web interface (through Chrome anyway) it goes with the original aspect ratio or there abouts - 1012 x 670 - 2:3 ish.
Liftoff seems to play nice with it:
Through Jerboa it gets trimmed hard:
Which is not the desired effect.
That last image is cropped to 1080 x 265 ish - 1:4
In fact, Liftoff wants a taller banner and starts to get messy when the height is lower:
That looks like it wants an image about 1080 x 683, so about 2:3.
You’ll might want to be roughly the shape of this banner from lemmy.world
This is 3726 x 1425 - similarish to this:
this one from monyet.cc.
This is 1080 x 405 - 3:8
Sooooo, tl;dr - my suggestion would be for a 2:3 banner that works when letterboxed down to at least 3:8 and perhaps even 1:4, although perhaps someone might want to have words with the Jerboa developers as that seems a very restrictive aspect ratio considering it is for mobile phone usage which is usually in portrait.
Format: PNG if possible.
Dimensions: tricky as you don't want too large a file but some people might be viewing on a desktop. For now, perhaps 1080px wide but keep the original around in case we need it at a larger size.
And, yes, I over-think things.