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SmokeyDope @lemmy.world

Some updates on community changes and future goals (03-28-2025)

Hi everyone! I recently became moderator of this community and have been making some changes. I figured it would be good practice to be transparent with you and document what's been going on.

Changelog

  • The community sidebar now has a banner
  • The description of our community has been rewritten and expanded.
  • New thumbnail picture
  • Un-pinned post on beginner questions / Reason: its better for beginners to make a new post asking their questions for community visibility/engagement.
  • Un-pinned post on guide to LLMs / Reason: guide years old and somewhat outdated.

thumbnail picture changes

Ive been experimenting with some different thumbnails for our community. I didn't really want to keep associating with r/localllama in any way we dont need to copy them.

Old thumbnail

New Thumbnail:

New banner:

I want to make sure our thumbnail looks decent and clearly recognizable on phones. Ive been tying to stick with the more minimal aesthetic, for readability.If you have some constructive critisism or a compelling argument to switch back to old thumbnail I will hear you out in the comments.

Plans moving forward

I would like to curate and pin an meta-index of all the guides members here have made throughout the community lifespan.

I would like to write and pin my own version of a beginners guide for llms in 2025.

Conclusion

Thank you all! From the posters, to the commenters, and especially the readers/lurkers. You have all helped keep this place alive. I will do continue doing my best to post while quietly keeping the place well maintained.

Source Images to artwork:

5 comments

  • The new banner is amazing! I love it. The llama icon is really cute, too.

    • I really appreciate the kind words swelter_spark thats very cool of you to say! Took some time searching and tried my best to pick some good source images. Then spent a lot of time making sure things looked nice. I thought the abstract and colorful setting of the banner fit really nicely with a positive creative vibe. It helps to subtly inspire these tools to be used in a constructive, playful, and whimsical way.

      When editing banner in GIMP I looked up the dimensions for cropping on lemmy and found the best zone with the cute llama head in middle focus. Then set the text font to Atkinson hyper-legible Next (I heard about it on lemmy few days ago, great font). After that spent a long time editing+colorizing the cute llama by hand with GIMP tools. It was a lot of trial error and effort so Its really nice to see that other people are happy with it as well. You are awesome :)