Again, based on @FixedFun 's original designs so creds to them for the idea.

Thoughts about these ones? For the one on the right, I tried a different angle to hopefully give more bird and less bald man.

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    Ok. I am someone who feels like kbin doesn’t really need a mascot at this point in time. It seems really early and tbh the whole thing feels a little forced. Really not into the bird design either. I just don’t get it…

    But holy shit this new icon on the right has 100% changed my mind.

    It is adorable and I’d put that on the first page of my phone home screen, no questions asked.

    Well done.

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    It can’t be done, but I would be tickled pink if the left image was the default icon and the right image was the icon if I have notifications waiting for me. 🤣

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        As an iOS app icon?
        As an icon on the website definitely yes, and since it’s open source, maybe somebody will disagree with you.

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          I don’t know anything about iOS development. I know it’s possible to add pills to an icon if you have notifications, but I have no idea if iOS gives you the ability to change what the icon looks like. Because we’d be talking about a PWA, the tools may also be a little different.

          As for browsers, I actually misremembered how favicons worked. After refreshing my memory, This is actually much less effort than I originally expected. Assuming an instance wanted to implement this, they could just change the link that defines the icon based on the currently logged in user’s number of notifications.

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    I thought mine had a good shot at being a mascot, but yours is amazing and so cute!

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    I just love it, the Kbird never looked so good, I don’t care about credit I just want the Kbird to exist one way or another

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    I really like both of these a whole lot, but I have to agree with most others here - the one on the right is wonderful!

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    The second one (right) is so much better than the previous ones. It loses the ‘bald guy’ look that the other ones have.

    I still maintain that we don’t need a mascot, but… that one would be good if we need one.

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        From the comment they are talking about AwkwardTheTurtle, but I wouldn’t have known what avatar Turtle used, and even having now looked it up it’s a bit of a stretch to link this with her avatar.