Dick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJul 30, 2023

SO YOU'VE GOT to put a #Peertube channel link on your super snazzy site tomorrow.

Which one would you choose?

This is not a poll, we are interested in feedback on the below four main options pictured. What you like, what you don't, and ways to improve the options for #webDevelopers who embrace #fediverse. As such, all critical COMMENTS and BOOSTS will help the community.

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Show threadRandy HallJul 30, 2023

@dsfgs #peertube colors and icon, horizontal orientation. Gives the impression of YT (including the play button icon style) without going to far afield.

But that would only be for sites that have a history of using YT, for unoformity. I think so long as there is a thumbnail still frame with some kind of play button icon, people will know what to do with it.

Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJul 30, 2023

@randy Good perspective, Randy. yes the orange, on a site that has a history of using YT, does create helpful seperation between the two. Do you think a site with no history of using YT, or that is **replacing** YT can comfortably a red, peertube icon?

We hadn't thought about play buttons, thanks! Peertube does have a simple way of making videos on the page seem watchable. If someone wanted to use the orange (or red), peertube, circle types in that situation they may read as play buttons, too?

Show threadRandy Hall

@dsfgs certainly, though I think that the color red is more a function of YT's dominance rather than an intuitive color choice. A red #peertube play button (in whatever shape or orientation) just perpetuates the impression that YT design language is correct and/or required, when it really is just a choice.

I think the peertube colors are close enough. Any shape of background can work, including the circle.

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Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJul 30, 2023

@randy Quite right. One thing that struck us in the lead up to doing this work, was the #VLCMediaPlayer, when it comes to native applications orange is thus widely accepting as video, Things like PDFs are given the red iconography. Its interesting that red online is more associated with video, Netflix included, and might be based on ulterior motives like stimulating particular emotions. Or it could be because RSS appear to have adopted the orange.

Thanks again for your continued feedback!