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Channel icons? #18

Open aaronpk opened 6 years ago

aaronpk commented 6 years ago

I just added emoji in the channel names, and now I'm wondering if there should be a way to choose/upload an actual custom icon for channels.

channel icons

channel icons

grantcodes commented 6 years ago

Personally I think it's just an extra layer of complexity that just isn't really needed, especially when you can use emojis like this and it just works

sknebel commented 6 years ago

Adding homepage favicons there would be a specific use case that isn't solved by emojis.

EdwardHinkle commented 6 years ago

I think favicons only work in regards to feeds. Since channels are folders of feeds I don't think that makes as much sense.

I can see the usefulness of having the ability to define icons but I agree it does add complexity. I think for now it's probably fine without and just using emoji, however I can see it being useful to potentially add in the future.

jalcine commented 5 years ago

In terms of cross-platform support, having icons being something served from the server would help greatly. Emoji support is still a bit wonky on non-(Apple|Windows|Android) platforms. I'm thinking about adding this to Lwa requiring the 'media' scope to set a 'photo' property on channels when updating and have Lwa require a proxied image to display.