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Brage Fuglseth

@pojntfx Yup! Hopefully the new URL is here to stay. I assume it was changed because having the badge locale as a query param allows for easier programmatic fetching of the badge in different locales.

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Felicitas Pojtinger πŸŒ…

@bragefuglseth Yup, the new one looks a lot nicer (and reminds me a bit of shields.io ^^)

Brage Fuglseth

@pojntfx My first thought was that it has moved from mimicking App Store’s badge to mimicking Google Play’s instead πŸ˜‚

Nickname

@bragefuglseth but what exactly is the improvement?
I mean "Download on" had the same length as "Flathub" in the old one, now with "Get it on" it looks a bit off.
Does it have a better resolution or something?
And well I assume the wording on the localized ones didnt fit to begin with, so what got "subtly improved"?

Brage Fuglseth

@Nickname Well, at least I subjectively think it looks better πŸ˜‚ It mimicks Google Play’s badge FWIW, and I don’t think that one is too bad either.

But regardless of that, the new one is what apps will adapt going forward, so for the sake of consistency everyone is better off rolling with the shiny new thing ✨

Brage Fuglseth

@Nickname One additional practical advantage with the new badge is that the letter kerning of Β«Get it onΒ» is lower, so there is in fact a lot more space for localized variants to use as well.

snahn ip

@Nickname @bragefuglseth my first question was... ok, so who designed the new one?

Edit: followed by what did the guy who designed the first one do?

(; self-edification for the win?

Brage Fuglseth

@sn0n @Nickname pretty sure @jimmac is the man behind both the old and the new one ⭐️

Jakub Steiner ⭐

@bragefuglseth Razze (@razze) deserves all the credit for the tedious hard work of localization and ease of use / api. As always, I only did the initial kick off.

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