Again, based on @FixedFun 's original designs so creds to them for the idea.

Thoughts about these ones? For the one on the right, I tried a different angle to hopefully give more bird and less bald man.

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    Ok. I am someone who feels like kbin doesn’t really need a mascot at this point in time. It seems really early and tbh the whole thing feels a little forced. Really not into the bird design either. I just don’t get it…

    But holy shit this new icon on the right has 100% changed my mind.

    It is adorable and I’d put that on the first page of my phone home screen, no questions asked.

    Well done.

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      oh wow i didnt expect that turn around in your comment lmfao. i am so happy you guys like it, i just whipped it up expecting it to fail and was like hmm not so bad, let me send it out into the world and see. its great to see positive reactions :D

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      Nice plot twist!

      This is all open source so let talent do talent and let community decide.

      Good “propaganda” is a must tho in digital economy and community sourced and voted product is the way to go IMHO

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        Lol this is exactly why I held my tongue for the first few of these posts. My first reaction was a pretty strong NO but I thought, let’s let this evolve organically and see what happens. Boy was my initial reaction wrong.

        Really love this little guy!

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    It can’t be done, but I would be tickled pink if the left image was the default icon and the right image was the icon if I have notifications waiting for me. 🤣

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        As an iOS app icon?
        As an icon on the website definitely yes, and since it’s open source, maybe somebody will disagree with you.

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          I don’t know anything about iOS development. I know it’s possible to add pills to an icon if you have notifications, but I have no idea if iOS gives you the ability to change what the icon looks like. Because we’d be talking about a PWA, the tools may also be a little different.

          As for browsers, I actually misremembered how favicons worked. After refreshing my memory, This is actually much less effort than I originally expected. Assuming an instance wanted to implement this, they could just change the link that defines the icon based on the currently logged in user’s number of notifications.

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    I thought mine had a good shot at being a mascot, but yours is amazing and so cute!

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    I just love it, the Kbird never looked so good, I don’t care about credit I just want the Kbird to exist one way or another

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    I really like both of these a whole lot, but I have to agree with most others here - the one on the right is wonderful!

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    The second one (right) is so much better than the previous ones. It loses the ‘bald guy’ look that the other ones have.

    I still maintain that we don’t need a mascot, but… that one would be good if we need one.

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    @minnieo joining the Left Twix crowd, but they are both really great! I LOVE the gradient outline in these versions compared to the pure black outline in prior.

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        From the comment they are talking about AwkwardTheTurtle, but I wouldn’t have known what avatar Turtle used, and even having now looked it up it’s a bit of a stretch to link this with her avatar.