avatars and usernames should be bigger so it's easier to grow a sense of community

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨nix@merv.news⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

I think the apps and the web ui should increase the size of the users avatars and make the username a bit bigger so it’s easier for people to start recognizing eachother and grow a sense of community. Back in the forum days people would remember eachother’s usernames/avatars for their contributions and it would be easier to grow a sense of community making things less hostile and easier to create community events

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Kolli@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
While I agree, I’d like to add that it’s not hard to recognize and remember the very active and/or notable posters.

Actually for the fun of it, I’ll name a few on top of my head:

QuentinCallaghan: Sopuli founder and avid commenter.

Ategon: Hot in the tech subs, seems like a really nice fella.

Picard Maneuver: Memelord and legend

Flying Squid: Meme master and commenter

Dessalines: Dev for Lemmy, Jerboa (and the keyboard I use, thanks this is great).

Ruut: Lemmyworld founder.

And some more whose username I can’t recall at the moment.

Also it’d be fun if you commnted some more. :D

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Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I agree, back in the day my “attention removed” avatar had much more impact.

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mizzyc@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Since you mentioned "forum days", I'm still wondering when did we decided we should get rid of those blinking gifs with our usernames we used as a signature for every post! I hate them, but I also miss them...

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