Welcome, this vote will determine which image we use for our banner image for sh.itjust.works. The discussion thread is in the Agora, and was also cross-posted to ImageAI

Fantastic work on the banners sh.itheads, I think we’ve got several excellent choices here. I’ve reposted the candidates below, with credits to the users who submitted them. I culled some submissions at my own discretion.

Each candidate is labeled with a number. In order to vote, simply comment on this post with the number of your preferred banner. You only get one vote.

Number 1 - @TendieMaster69@sh.itjust.works

Number 2 - @scumola@sh.itjust.works

Number 3 - @scumola@sh.itjust.works

Number 4 - @scumola@sh.itjust.works

Number 5 - @scumola@sh.itjust.works

Number 6 - @scumola@sh.itjust.works

Number 7 - @ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works

Number 8 - @thelsim@sh.itjust.works

Number 9 - @thelsim@sh.itjust.works

Number 10 - @thelsim@sh.itjust.works

Number 11 - @thelsim@sh.itjust.works

Number 12 - @thelsim@sh.itjust.works

You may also specify a few honorable mentions in your comment if you so choose, as a way to acknowledge the artists’ work.

The vote will run until next Friday.

VOTE RESULT

1. Banner 8 by @thelsim@sh.itjust.works: 91 votes

2. Banner 11 by @thelsim@sh.itjust.works: 49 votes

3. Banner 6 by @scumola@sh.itjust.works: 24 votes

4. Banner 7 by @ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works: 20 votes

5. Banner 3 by @scumola@sh.itjust.works: 19 votes

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1022097

Don’t mean to get in the middle of the Dieselpunk challenge but I figured the people here might want to take a shot at creating a banner as well. I’m going to leave that thread open for at least a week so you guys should have time.

Please post your best submissions to the Agora thread linked above

I will try to scan both threads to get all of the candidates before we vote, but the Agora thread is the official discussion, this was just cross-posted for awareness.

The two obvious themes in my mind are gears/some sort of complex machine, or computer hardware/circuits.

As an avid Lain Iwakura enjoyer, I added that screenshot because it’s awesome and I think it’d be an extremely cool banner, but there are probably much cleaner designs out there that would be more welcoming to new users. I’m sure you guys will be able to come up with some in short order.

You can look on lemmyverse.net to get a quick overview of some other instance banners.

I really don’t know how the formatting and proportions are supposed to work but I will edit that in as soon as someone clarifies.

Lemmy.world looks like this

This discussion run for at least a week, and then we can take the most upvoted submissions in this thread and put them up for an official vote.