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2023-03-19 UTC
IWSlackGateway, x1v, [KevinMarks], mouse[d], IWDiscordRelay, chee, [TMichelleMoore], [manton], [chrisbergr], [snarfed], [tantek] and [schmarty] joined the channel
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Seirdy_ [tantek]: I had a knee-jerk reaction to seeing the banner image in <https://indieweb.org/POSSE>. I immediately assumed it was an ad and launched my ad-blocker's element picker before realizing it was just an image 🤣
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capjamesg Is that photo new [tantek]?
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Seirdy_ Any time I see some sort of stock photo with text like that my brain just goes "Marketing alert! Corpospeak! Blockity-block-block!" and I had to stop myself and go like "wait, this is a wiki. The entire web hasn't been taken over yet, some folks are still alright".
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capjamesg Also, "the network" sounds ominous.
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Seirdy_ edit history says jan
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[tantek] What are banner images?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "banner images" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "banner images is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] banner images are /banner_image
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Loqi ok
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loqi.me created /banner_images (+25) "prompted by [tantek] and redirect added by [tantek]" (view diff)
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[tantek] what are banner images
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Loqi 🖼 A banner image is a wide image (AKA header image or hero image), typically in an aspect ratio of 2:1 to 4:1, displayed as a backdrop at the top of a profile page or post permalink https://indieweb.org/banner_images
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[tantek] capjamesg ^
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capjamesg Very nice!
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capjamesg I still find "the network" strange.
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[tantek] You could suggest different phrasing to [chrisaldrich] !
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capjamesg This is tough...
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capjamesg How about "Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere."
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capjamesg I know that's what POSSE means but that wording is well articulated and concise.
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capjamesg "the network" is too ambigious and sounds a bit idealist.
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[tantek] the point of such images is to evoke something larger and more abstract than the direct usage
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[tantek] "ambigious and sounds a bit idealist" is another way of putting that! the images are supposed to evoke aspirational feelings