This one is super old and still references Reddit. A kind soul tried making a custom banner for us a while back, but I didn’t get much feedback when I posted about it so I just left things as they are and procrastination took over. I need help. I have zero artistic ability, and suck this sort of thing.

  • nuke@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    10·
    28 days ago

    Look, I already told you I suck at this (I’ll find out)

    Edit: 960x240, 4:1 ratio appears to be right answer

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        7·
        29 days ago

        investigates

        In my web browser, browsing the lemmy.today Web UI, looking at the homepage for the community, if I take a screenshot, the current banner appears to be displayed at 966x129; the actual underlying image is 4,000x533.

        Looking at a different community’s banner !imageai@sh.itjust.works, I get 966x240 visible in a screenshot, with the underlying image being 1,792x672.

        So at least on my browser and viewed on that Lemmy frontend, I’m a little suspicious – without looking at the code – that 966 might be some kind of native target for width. It can clearly handle higher-res, and that might be desirable for some higher-resolution displays or clients, if they leverage that.

        EDIT: Man, this should be on some kind of Lemmy community moderation wiki. Like, every moderator shouldn’t have to individually figure this out.

        EDIT2: One reference to 960x240 that I can find is here, though as I said, it doesn’t appear to be quite right for native display resolution – on my browser, maybe just something wonky with me – and in that post, they point out that different themes can take advantage of higher resolution.

        EDIT3: In the CSS, at least in the current default Lemmy Web UI, it looks like .banner has a max-height attribute of 240px, so I think that it’s safe to say that at least in that environment, it won’t grow past that.