Great idea! But with one color palette for all, it's pretty hard to tell them apart.
Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
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Re: Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
#52Love the list of sample names!!
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find it a bit sad that the most upvoted reaction to someone's cool little project they wanted to share is the classic HN misguided and overused response of 'React BAD'
There's a reason for that. The web is roughly 90% static pages with JS sprinkled on top(usually jQuery), and 10% SPAs made in various frameworks. https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library React is a small part of the web(in terms of the number of people using it commercially) and thus a library written in React isn't terribly useful for most of the market.
> React is a small part of the web(in terms of the number of people using it commercially) and thus a library written in React isn't terribly useful for most of the market.
And why does that matter? The OP is someone's toy project, not an attempt at starting a SaaS company.
Re: Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
#54They look cool but aren't avatars mainly used to uniquely identify someone based on a picture? A lot of these look too similar. The really boring approach IMO is to choose a random solid color and put the user's initial(s) on top of it. This makes it pretty unique and much easier to associate someone back to their avatar.
> The really boring approach IMO is to choose a random solid color and put the user's initial(s) on top of it. This makes it pretty unique and much easier to associate someone back to their avatar.
I agree that it's a good simple baseline, but going on a minor off-topic rant, I find it very annoying when this is implemented under the anglocentric assumption of names always being of the format Firstname (Middlename) Surname everywhere, and thus always parsing the initials as "FS". As a result, Spanish people whose naming custom is Firstname(s) 1stSurname 2ndSurname, where the 2nd surname is the "droppable" one, are inappropriately rendered. Director Pedro Almodóvar Caballero becomes "PC", rather than the acceptable versions "PA" or "PAC".
Re: Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
#55Love the list of sample names!! https://notablewomen.withgoogle.com/all
So instead of just producing a set of notable people, they went with excluding men. I am not sure how we will ever achieve the supposed goals when they all seem to just be lip service and not about equality at all. How is this equal?
Re: Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
#56Anybody know of a library that generates similar style images that can be used for larger dimensions? My goal would be to use this for blog cover backgrounds with title text imposed over it.
Re: Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
#57Love the list of sample names!! https://notablewomen.withgoogle.com/all
So instead of just producing a set of notable people, they went with excluding men. I am not sure how we will ever achieve the supposed goals when they all seem to just be lip service and not about equality at all. How is this equal?
This is just a list of notable women. It's not really "excluding men" as much as it is just a different category.
Re: Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
#58My favourite was the Stackoverflow April Fools Unicorn avatar generator from a few years ago but I'm not sure if they ever released the source https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37328/my-god-its-fu...
https://unicornify.pictures (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24281401 )
> If you want bigger and/or higher-quality images, the avatar generation code (including a command-line app) is at https://bitbucket.org/balpha/go-unicornify.
The code appears to have been migrated to GitHub at https://github.com/codingisacopingstrategy/unicornify and the about page on https://web.archive.org/web/20100428132341/http://unicornify...
The code is also at https://bitbucket-archive.softwareheritage.org/projects/ba/b...
Re: Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
#59They look cool but aren't avatars mainly used to uniquely identify someone based on a picture? A lot of these look too similar. The really boring approach IMO is to choose a random solid color and put the user's initial(s) on top of it. This makes it pretty unique and much easier to associate someone back to their avatar.
There are only 676 unique 2 letter pairs or 17.5k 3 letter letter initial triplets, and initials aren’t evenly distributed so there’s a ton of non-uniqueness in that approach for a platform with millions of users.
Re: Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
#60Love the list of sample names!! https://notablewomen.withgoogle.com/all
So instead of just producing a set of notable people, they went with excluding men. I am not sure how we will ever achieve the supposed goals when they all seem to just be lip service and not about equality at all. How is this equal?
"When you are accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like oppression." Stephanie Herrera