As expected, me, as a single mod, requires some help. I’ll keep this post pinned and update it when needed. At the moment, what the community needs (except for more active users) is:
- Another mod, even if there is not a lot of work to do, I’d still be happy if we can have redundancy.
- Design for the community logo and banner.
- A bot to update the sidebar - this is something I can do myself, only it will take me sometime to get there.
Some ideas for the banner (let me know if you like any of these, they are some AI generations I “created” using MS designer, I am a procreate artist, so if you do not like AI art I can recreate them based on any of these ideas. But they look somewhat decent. “Two music notes kissing” and “Two records holding hands”, lol)
Hi,
Thanks so much! This is a cool idea. Two thoughts about the images:
- I prefer man-made than AI-generated. So if you can recreate this, after having the final design, I’d prefer that. Of course, our time is limited, and you are doing this for free, so I’m not going to demand anything from you.
- I think it’s a bit two happy-smiling-kissing-bees. I would like to see some representation of the various musical styles. Like, showing in the background some factories (industrial), sea (surf music), etc. The last one, with the street lights, shows that to some level. (Other members, feel free to suggest ideas)
Actually, three things,
If you have the time and energy, maybe you can add more style to the community logo? If @GeneralVincent@lemmy.world agrees.
I would be happy to. Yea, as an artist myself, I only use AI generated for reference and inspiration. Think of the ideas as a creative pitch. I will work on a more serious and inclusive design on procreate within the next couple of weeks. I don’t accept money for my work anyways, I just love making art too much.
I’ll be sure to include factories, the sea, and some urban elements in the background. I could include some instruments linked with chains or something like that to be more sophisticated, lol. The kissing/holding hands idea was just a funny idea when I thought of the word connection, so I will nix that and use a different way to link them.
In the next few days if anyone wants to add some keywords for depicting various music styles with objects, etc, feel free to reply to this comment as I will draft up a few ideas soon.
I hope to finish before the New Year. And I will also see about revising the logo. Thank you for the opportunity!
I’m not a professional designer per se, but before I dropped out of college I was going for graphic design XD so I put together some quick ideas, if you’re still looking for a logo
Let me know if another mod is still needed for number 1 here. Seems like the other new mod hasn’t been checking in as often and I’m happy to help out.
Depending on exactly what’s needed, I may be able to help mod. I have absolutely no design skills so I wouldn’t be any good for #2, and can barely code my way out of a paper bag, so #3 is pretty much out, too.
Hi.
1 is the most urgent one, as I’m going on vacation tomorrow, and I don’t know how available I’ll be. I’m adding you as mod.
3 if you want to learn to code, that’s a good opportunity 😁 I’ll handle that later.
2 is the mostly problematic. I’ll try to do something, but like you, I have no design skills.
LOL okay, I’ll start trying to figure shit out so you can go and enjoy your vacation!
It’s fairly simple: as long as no one is posting some toxic shit (didn’t happen so far) - you don’t have to do much; if you don’t see any connection between songs, ask the poster to clarify.
That’s pretty much it.
I’m still fairly new to Lemmy, so I don’t think I’m suitable to be a moderator just yet…
But this community reminds me of my old Reddit community /r/lostnotes.
I’m out of town and busy today, but if you’d like, you’re welcome to dig through my old sub and post the links here.
F Spez
Hi, I’m probably as new to Lemmy as you, but the whole idea of modding is making sense. Especially in this community where the rules are really clear “post songs and don’t be an asshole” so far, except for that Dolly Parton incident there wasn’t any problem.
If you don’t feel like it, don’t worry. If so, I’ll just make you a mod and lurk in the background. …
I’ve looked through /r/lostnotes it’s not exactly what /c/connectasong is about, but it is close enough :-)