App rebranding

[Tunous]

A lot of people didn't like the name Dank for the app. Perhaps it's a good time to change the name to something which would sound more professional? I personally very like the name Seek which someone shared in dank's subreddit previously but I'm open to other ideas.

@saket are you ok with this, or maybe you have other suggestions? Also while I have a chance do you have any idea how we could work out to make the app available on the play store? I technically could create my own signing keys and upload them under my account (package name would change with rebranding to avoid conflict) but it kind of feels weird to have my name as the developer since you've made almost all of the work with it. (I can contact you somewhere else if you prefer)

[saket]

A lot of people didn't like the name Dank for the app. Perhaps it's a good time to change the name to something which would sound more professional?

Let me think about this. Re-branding the original repository will be better so that all forks receive the updates.

Also while I have a chance do you have any idea how we could work out to make the app available on the play store?

I have started considering pulling your changes upstream. It makes me so happy to see you all making constant bug fixes and feature additions. I did not expect this all. Let me see if I can afford doing this actively. If it works out, I'll keep uploading the updates. In the meanwhile, could you please upload the releases on Github?

but it kind of feels weird to have my name as the developer since you've made almost all of the work with it.

We can have the name of all major contributors in the about screen.

[Tunous]

Let me think about this. Re-branding the original repository will be better so that all forks receive the updates.

Yes, that would be the best option.

I have started considering pulling your changes upstream. It makes me so happy to see you all making constant bug fixes and feature additions.

That sounds great! I hope that you'll decide to do it 😀

Let me see if I can afford doing this actively. If it works out, I'll keep uploading the updates. In the meanwhile, could you please upload the releases on Github?

Definitely, my aim was to make as much as possible work automatically. One of the things I did is setup CircleCI (https://circleci.com/gh/Tunous/Dank). The config file I created includes jobs for building debug version of the app and also a job for uploading them to GitHub releases on each tag push to repository. It already works correctly in my fork. The same thing can be done with release builds. It's also possible to automatically publish them to alpha channel on Play Store with help of Gradle plugins.

With all of that it would be possible to create a release by just pushing a tag to repository and it would land in Google Play alpha channel (or other depending on config)

[dotvhs]

About the name, perhaps new name could be cosmos/astronomy oriented? I do like the name Apollo for the iOS client and Snoo is an alien so perhaps Dank should also follow that lead. Good I did not start working on new app icon then.

[saket]

Definitely, my aim was to make as much as possible work automatically. One of the things I did is setup CircleCI (https://circleci.com/gh/Tunous/Dank). The config file I created includes jobs for building debug version of the app and also a job for uploading them to GitHub releases on each tag push to repository.

This looks good. I'll import it when possible.

[saket]

Alright let's do this: https://github.com/saket/Dank/pull/6

@Tunous please keep committing to your project. Once I've cherry-picked everything, we can move the contributions to the main repository and unarchive it. Can't believe I'm doing this.

[mvietri]

A lot of people didn't like the name Dank for the app. Perhaps it's a good time to change the name to something which would sound more professional? I personally very like the name Seek which someone shared in dank's subreddit previously but I'm open to other ideas.

I like Seek. I tried thinking a name with 'swype' or 'gestures' but nothing came up.

[mufeedali]

Seek sounds good. BTW, any place to download debug builds?

[PoorPocketsMcNewHold]

A lot of people didn't like the name Dank for the app. Perhaps it's a good time to change the name to something which would sound more professional? I personally very like the name Seek which someone shared in dank's subreddit previously but I'm open to other ideas.

I like Seek. I tried thinking a name with 'swype' or 'gestures' but nothing came up.

Around the same idea, I've tough of a rime with Reddit, Like "SlickIt" or with yours "SeekIt". Yeah, I'm not that good with English Slang However, Outside of that, The Dank icon need also to be changed, as, Deal With It glasses are "2 Dank 4 Me" still. So, I'll suggest instead another type of glasses, with an overhaul more classical look. I did conserve the swipe upvotes and downvotes off the app on the icon however to give it more identity. That's just a suggestion, I'm not a professional or whatever.

Seek sounds good. BTW, any place to download debug builds? @lastweakness

You can get latest automatically built debug version from my fork here. But since this is debug version the app might work slower due to lack of optimization and a lot of additional stuff running in background which helps with development. I'm not yet sure how to distribute proper versions though. I could probably create my own signing key and use that but it wouldn't be compatible with previous official versions.

[az4726]

@PoorPocketsMcNewHold That icon looks very good, but I would suggest making the icon adaptive so that it fits the user's preferred icon theme. So the top layer could be the reddit icon with the upvotes, and the back layer could be the purple backdrop or maybe even the shade of grey used in the app theme. Once again that looks great!

https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive Heres a link to the android developer docs for a better explanation of what I meant

[dotvhs]

@PoorPocketsMcNewHold Icon looks fine but I would remove the up/down vote and leave the head only? For me it's a bit too noisy right now. But it's a good start.

[mvietri]

@PoorPocketsMcNewHold Icon looks fine but I would remove the up/down vote and leave the head only? For me it's a bit too noisy right now. But it's a good start.

Maybe put the upvote on one side of the glasses and the downvote on the other side (on the inside).

[PoorPocketsMcNewHold]

@PoorPocketsMcNewHold That icon looks very good, but I would suggest making the icon adaptive so that it fits the user's preferred icon theme. So the top layer could be the reddit icon with the upvotes, and the back layer could be the purple backdrop or maybe even the shade of grey used in the app theme. Once again that looks great!

https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive Heres a link to the android developer docs for a better explanation of what I meant

Am i doing it right ?

@PoorPocketsMcNewHold Icon looks fine but I would remove the up/down vote and leave the head only? For me it's a bit too noisy right now. But it's a good start.

I suppose, like that ?

@PoorPocketsMcNewHold Icon looks fine but I would remove the up/down vote and leave the head only? For me it's a bit too noisy right now. But it's a good start.

Maybe put the upvote on one side of the glasses and the downvote on the other side (on the inside).

Which one were you trying to describe ? (Except, if it was a mix of both at different line starting points)

[mvietri]

@PoorPocketsMcNewHold don't laugh about my paint skills but I meant something like this:

But it's a terrible idea xD

[dotvhs]

Snoo-only icon looks best if you ask me. I will give it a go one day as well, I have few ideas.

[dotvhs]

I am not really sure about the colors just yet, so please bear with me:

https://adapticon.tooo.io/#/bg=https://i.imgur.com/CvPtE9I.png/fg=https://i.imgur.com/b3vDy19.png

EDIT: In next revision I think I will change the background to the grey (although I'm afraid it will look a bit worse) that is used in app and also move antenna up a bit so it sticks out of the sun just a little.

[dotvhs]

Small revisions:

I still need to work on the shape of that antenna, there is something off about it.

[PoorPocketsMcNewHold]

Small revisions:

I still need to work on the shape of that antenna, there is something off about it.

I absolutely love these. I would even recommend using the "Vice City" colored one as well as for a dev/beta branch one, and the other one for the stable branch.

[mvietri]

I really do like them and the idea of using both for different release channels.

May I ask if it's ok to use the reddit logo on a 3rd party app or did @saket get permission from reddit?

[qtto]

@Esselans Good question, and sadly, reddit generally doesn't allow snoo to be used in app logo's. See https://www.redditinc.com/assets/press-resources/reddit_brand_guidelines_20180314.pdf, page 16:

Generally not permitted or approved Use of the Reddit brand as any part of the name of a company, product, service, app, website, domain name, or social media account.

So sadly, these logo ideas might get the app pulled from the Play Store/App Store.

[dotvhs]

@qtto Well, dang it. Let's hope that we are fine as long as we don't use original snoo, which has different colours, eyes, a smile, antenna and an outline.

[qtto]

Let's hope so indeed - if reddit thinks it's too similar they'll have you change it (this happened with Apollo). I do think this is probably fine.

I dig the icons @Esselans proposed, but I'm not sure if it should stay with the original theme? If the app is rebranded to Seek I think the icon should not be stuck in the Dank-era (i.e. the sunglasses).

[dotvhs]

Let's hope so indeed - if reddit thinks it's too similar they'll have you change it (this happened with Apollo). I do think this is probably fine.

I dig the icons @Esselans proposed, but I'm not sure if it should stay with the original theme? If the app is rebranded to Seek I think the icon should not be stuck in the Dank-era (i.e. the sunglasses).

Yeah, I forgot the name is supposed to be Seek and not Sleek. In worst case scenario I can go back to the drawing board again when we settle on the app name and icon won't fit it anymore.

[dotvhs]

I changed the antenna, I think it is a bit better but I probably was already looking on it way too much to be objective:

Adaptive preview: https://adapticon.tooo.io/#/bg=https://i.imgur.com/oe9tHKd.png/fg=https://i.imgur.com/Oz9e66P.png https://adapticon.tooo.io/#/bg=https://i.imgur.com/gaHRcBM.png/fg=https://i.imgur.com/fe6Ovnq.png

[Soitora]

Has there been any progress overall on the rebrand?

Really beautiful designs @dotvhs

[Tunous]

I was about to publish the app to the play store but then having to upload an icon reminded me about this discussion. Now, I guess it would be a good moment to go for the new name (or keep dank) and icon design.

@saket what do you think about this? You mentioned doing it in main repository too so I wonder how we could pull that out.

[PoorPocketsMcNewHold]

Well, I think we should profit this occasion of renaming Dank. Compared to the currently popular Reddit clients, Dank has short-lived and didn’t receive as much love as I would think, to keep the need to re-use that name for its rebrand. We can indeed relaunch the name brainstorming (But the already proposed names for it were pretty good already)

[saket]

Um, go ahead with changing the name for your fork. I think I'm okay with forks maintaining their own names and logos. Just keep a credit link somewhere in the about section and I'll be more than happy :)

[qtto]

I agree that changing the name would be good. When the app was first released by @saket it already had a lot of comments about the name :-)

I think Seek was a fine suggestion - it makes it sound a lot like a video/music player in my opinion, but at least it implies some movement (good for such a gesture focused app). But I do believe brainstorming some more would be nice.

[mvietri]

Yeah. I'll go with Seek and the logos made by @dotvhs (the left one)

[Soitora]

Seek for Reddit with the app icons from @dotvhs

Dark Background one for Main and Purple one for Dev builds

[dotvhs]

If it's needed, I can work on some more designs but it seems you guys liked last version.

[Tunous]

I would be ok with using the yellow version for regular builds and purple for dev but I'm not really sure whether we should risk having the app pulled from store because of it. Right now it looks too close to original snoo since we can see the whole shape of head.

@dotvhs I might leave the decision up to you. Are you willing to send us required assets to the latest version or do you want to have another attempt with something different? Seek is a good name for this fork, perhaps sunglasses won't fit to that as someone said?

[PoorPocketsMcNewHold]

It is possible to contact Reddit directly to ask them suggestion on the use of it ?

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I would be ok with using the yellow version for regular builds and purple for dev but I'm not really sure whether we should risk having the app pulled from store because of it. Right now it looks too close to original snoo since we can see the whole shape of head.

@dotvhs I might leave the decision up to you. Are you willing to send us required assets to the latest version or do you want to have another attempt with something different? Seek is a good name for this fork, perhaps sunglasses won't fit to that as someone said?

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[mvietri]

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/licensing

[Tunous]

regular	dev

This is how it looks with what we've got so far.

[dotvhs]

I would be ok with using the yellow version for regular builds and purple for dev but I'm not really sure whether we should risk having the app pulled from store because of it. Right now it looks too close to original snoo since we can see the whole shape of head.

I don't think we need to worry, about it, original Snoo has different antenna and no sunglasses, so while it resembles the Snoo, it's not using their assets and if we use version with dark blue background and green head - I think we will be safe for sure, since Snoo is white.

@dotvhs I might leave the decision up to you. Are you willing to send us required assets to the latest version or do you want to have another attempt with something different? Seek is a good name for this fork, perhaps sunglasses won't fit to that as someone said?

Of course I'll send prepared assets, I can work on other revisions later.

[Tunous]

Also we'll need 24dp full white version for notifications, preferably in xml :)

Current looks like this:

[qtto]

Definitely not to be rude to the creator, because these icons are designed very well - but I think the icon might not be suitable in the long run. Not only because Reddit might complain (a different look for snoo is not necessarily enough for them to excuse it: see slide or relay's old icons) but also because it doesn't quite fit the name, in my opinion. Seek is a good name, but the icon doesn't really have a relation to it.

However, I don't have a better icon right now, and I think changing the icon later shouldn't be much of a problem :-)

[dotvhs]

Also we'll need 24dp full white version for notifications, preferably in xml :)

Current looks like this:

Okay, I'll prepare it too.

Definitely not to be rude to the creator, because these icons are designed very well - but I think the icon might not be suitable in the long run. Not only because Reddit might complain (a different look for snoo is not necessarily enough for them to excuse it: see slide or relay's old icons) but also because it doesn't quite fit the name, in my opinion. Seek is a good name, but the icon doesn't really have a relation to it.

However, I don't have a better icon right now, and I think changing the icon later shouldn't be much of a problem :-)

Agreed, maybe we should change the name then? Vice for Reddit :D or Funk for Reddit, New Wave, Retro Wave for Reddit, Wave for Reddit? Dawn for Reddit? I dunno. I'm neutral to the Seek name.

Or maybe we should make a new logo after all, but I currently don't have any fancy ideas for it, so I'm open.

[mvietri]

I only came up with Glide For Reddit, or only Glide. And of logo use something like that. I am aware of the Glide library that is use on this project but It also applies to things like smooth.

But with a (similar to) Snoo.

[Tunous]

Dawn for Reddit

I like that name too. Could use that. Alternatively the opposite: Dusk for Reddit

[qtto]

I also really like Dawn! Dusk as well, but dawn of course signifies a "new day", or rather, something like new content in our case. Fits well!

[PoorPocketsMcNewHold]

I personally prefer largely the Dawn for reddit aswell. Especially since it reflect more the current icon aswell.

[Soitora]

I can actually get behind the name Dusk for Reddit, "similiar" to dank and more closely fits with the logo as well as the activity (who else reads Reddit until late night?)

In that case, the Dev icon/loader in this should be used for Release instead as it fits better with the name.

Release (Should be Dev)	Dev (Should be Release)

If Dawn sounds better than keep it as is. (Both are good, really).

Maybe even when we've decided on the logo (color scheme) then we can use some of those colors in the app itself.

[Tunous]

Let's go for Dawn for Reddit

[Soitora]

Sounds good, Dawn for Reddit with the Dawn-logo, and Dusk-logo for Dev release

[Tunous]

@dotvhs Any progress on the designs, did you manage to find time to export them for app and store?

[Minnona]

Also we'll need 24dp full white version for notifications, preferably in xml :)

Maybe use the sun thingy? Something like this one:

[PoorPocketsMcNewHold]

I found it great, but i'm scared that it might not be recognizable. I would have suggested the frame of the glasses alone, which are directly recognizable.

[Minnona]

I found it great, but i'm scared that it might not be recognizable.

Yeah, I had the same thoughts. Maybe it will work better with less stripes?

I would have suggested the frame of the glasses alone, which are directly recognizable.

Might look like a handset :p