It's been two days since I originally posted the final name poll, votes have stopped coming in, and the winner is Kibby!
So, everyone, meet Kibby! Crafted by the community. He is ours! β€οΈ
In celebration, I have created a script that changes the default/no avatar (blank) into a randomly selected variant of Kibby! And there are tons, about 25 and more to come.. Thanks for the idea, @sab!
Here is how the script looks in action (sorry for imgur's shit quality lol)
I'd like to say thank you so much to everyone who has given me their time, feedback, insight, and ideas which helped me, together with you all, develop Kibby further into his wonderful finalized version. Especially thank you to @FixedFun who's original design and idea kickstarted this entire process. This was super fun, and I am really happy with how he turned out, and I hope you all are too.
β‘β‘Λβ Download the mascot files here βΛβ‘β‘
I provided svg and png both with and without gradient, a clean the Adobe Illustrator file, and all of the current Kibby variants!
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I love the avatar replacement script sooo much, but I just wish the icon was consistent between posts from the same person; whether that's from using the username as a randomizer seed to make it consistent between pages, or just pushing username and generated-icon associations into an object on a per-page basis. As it is, it dramatically decreases accessibility for me, which makes me sad because the parrot brings me joy.
Of course I just wrote all this and realized someone said this exact thing on page two. I suppose I'll post it anyway just to say, yeah, I'm a user being directly impacted by it; if you can't figure it out by the time that I'm not deliriously ill then I might take a crack at it myself
i hear you and i will attempt to solve this. im an amateur at coding so it might take me a bit