We are now a part of the official Fandom app

[Dargoo_Faust]

Correct. You can read wiki articles in the app, but not edit them. You can also contribute to Discussions.

Nice!

Happy to hear, then.

 

[Iapitus_The_Impaler]

Ayy, this should make things much easier

 

[The_Impress]

Actually, unsure if it would matter, but this might make the wiki discussions extremely active, since "VS" and "Battle" are very popular keywords for play store and app store last time I checked.

Thank God it doesn't allow users to edit

 

[Skalt711]

Can someone pick me a good picture of standing Spider-Man (Earth-616 version)? The current render of Earth-616 Spider-Man is showing him sitting.

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

After this goes live,

Us discussion mods should patrol, well, discussions, far more often methinks.

 

[Skalt711]

Actually, unsure if it would matter, but this might make the wiki discussions extremely active, since "VS" and "Battle" are very popular keywords for play store and app store last time I checked.

Thank God it doesn't allow users to edit

Believe me, we have an army of staff to handle with such amount of discussions. 17 discussion moderators are here. And I don't count 16 administrators!

 

[Bobsican]

Can someone pick me a good picture of standing Spider-Man (Earth-616 version)? The current render of Earth-616 Spider-Man is showing him sitting.

This is the best I could find

 

[The_Impress]

Hard to find a 616 one, but would these work in any way?



Both of them are either recognizable or a popular iteration of the character.

 

[Skalt711]

Oh yeah, I'll try working with these pictures.

 

[The_Impress]

Man, Marvel really hates spines

 

[Skalt711]

More like they hate me. (No offense was told to them!)

 

[CinnabarManx421]

After this goes live,
Us discussion mods should patrol, well, discussions, far more often methinks.

I second this, this is definetly a great achievement for us, but it does mean we are likely gonna get more attention.

And, you know, if you ever need some extra help with that... *hint hint* ovo

 

[The_Smashor]

Yay us! Spidey, Mario and Goku are probably the best for this since their the most (Or at least some of the most) popular characters from the three most popular types of fiction for vs dabates. It also avoids having Goku and Superman in the image, since that matchup is banned here so having them both in the same image would be, awkward to say the least.

 

[Lilixa]

they use Kratos pic Because new GoW game recieve critical acclaim in mainstream media i think

 

[MLPlover2011]

Cool

 

[Ecstasy_Amphetamine]

Congrats to this wiki

Btw the picture FANDOOM used is laughable

 

[Yobo_Blue]

Perhaps we should start mentioning that the forum is much preferred to discussions

 

[Mira_Laime]

Fandom doesn't usually accept user submissions for Fandom app topic icons since those images have to fullfil a number of criteria, and not just have the right dimensions and resolution. They need to fit the app's overall design system, be compatible with specific background colors, etc. The characters depicted should be more or less humanoid, look at the viewer, or hold an action-packed and engaging pose. Fandom's design team tries their best to create topic icons that will make app users want to tap on them and find out more. Quite a bit of thought goes into these.

In this case, they probably put two empowered female characters in there on purpose (the woman on the right is the Thirteenth Dr Who). All our topic icons are meant to represent positive, diverse fan culture.

This isn't to say that we wouldn't love to use a topic icon in the app that the community loves and can identify with! It would just have to tick a number of boxes that aren't obvious and that you may not have been aware of. So if you want to try your hand at making a replacement icon for the app, I'm happy to pass it on and have it reviewed! Just make sure to take all this into consideration and be aware that Fandom may still reject your replacement suggestion, if we feel it doesn't fulfill all the criteria.

 

[Ecstasy_Amphetamine]

If you're looking for empowered female characters then Wonder Woman clearly fits the criteria, plus I believe she's a better choice than what is being used

I think Sailor Moon can stay

 

[SheevShezarrine]

I say we use Goku, Superman, and Dante in our Fandom app icon so we look like Screwattack shills

 

[The_Impress]

Perhaps we should start mentioning that the forum is much preferred to discussions

Discussions are far more accessible though. Most of the time, any traffic is good traffic.

 

[Yobo_Blue]

Discussions are generally harder to manage

 

[TataHakai]

Ahh i had this app before but uninstalled it, time to reinstall it i guess.

 

[Antvasima]

We don't seem to get a lot of new discussions so far, and the main issue is just that the staff should check to remove troll threads.

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

Discussions are generally harder to manage

No, they aren't.

To be blunt we just don't manage them as much because everything relevent to the content on the site is on the Forum.

 

[Yobo_Blue]

If you say do. In my experience discussions don't work in any capacity, but that just could be me,

 

[Antvasima]

As for the image, I think that it should reflect what our audience is most interested in, but I don't make the decisions.

Wonder Woman could work instead of Spider-Man of course.

 

[TataHakai]

It should be the biggest Comic or Animanga characters imo

Maybe Spiderman/Superman or Goku?

 

[Skalt711]

Okay, someone tell me what resolution is acceptable for FANDOM app images and I'm on game!!

 

[The_Foolish_Omniscient_Guy]

It should be the biggest Comic or Animanga characters imo
Maybe Spiderman/Superman or Goku?

From my viewpoint, Goku and Superman are too cliche

 

[Antvasima]

Well, Goku won our most popular anime/manga character poll, Spider-Man won the one for comicbook characters, and Mario is the world's most recogniseable game character, so I picked the ones that I thought would give us the most visitors.

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Previous_front_page_poll_results

 

[The_Impress]

From my viewpoint, Goku and Superman are too cliche

They're the most recognizable characters of the genre, being "too cliché" is irrelevant. We're not trying to be edgy or hipster.

Regardless, in terms of diversity however, I'm game

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

If we're looking for empowering female characters that the site itself identifies with, I'd choose a female character from Comics, and a female character from Anime, which tend to be the two most frequented forms of media on the site in terms of VS Debates.

As such there's the already mentioned Wonder Woman, but also Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers), Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), and Supergirl as relevant Comic entries.

Alita (Battle Angel Alita), Ryougi Shiki, Sailor Moon, Medaka, Puella Magi Characters, Touho Characters, Akame, Lucy (Elfen Lied) and a number of others could fill the shoes in for Anime/Manga.

 

[Skalt711]

I made a rough draft of how the poses should look. Note that I have no ideas how to meet FANDOM's criterias, so I'd appreciate your help on how to crop the image and how the characters need to be placed.

 

[RatherClueless]

it should be the 60s spiderman ovo

 

[Antvasima]

I would personally prefer Wonder Woman and Alita over the other alternatives. They have recently had well-directed popular movies.

 

[The_Impress]

Totes-not-bias, but on a technical level, Kamala has a more eye catching design and is more likely to not get us confused with a typical wiki.

Her relevance is questionable, but I suppose going total pandering via popular characters is counter-productive to marketing our site as well.

 

[RatherClueless]

maybe creat a poll specificly for this? just an idea

 

[1997KD]

Finally

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

Wait shoot

I completely forgot about Miles Morales. If we're shooting for diversity and relevence he'd be my pick for comics.

Comics Miles, DCEU Wonder Woman, and Alita would be my picks @Mira. I can try and put something together or suggest images if you guys want to make the logo, but I undertstand if there is no desire to change it on your end.