Add country flag icons to country categories title

[Luzandro]

Could the community name be extended by the national flag? I quite like the symbol for the issues category which makes it easily recognizable.
Maybe that’s the wrong place to ask this question as this applies to other communities as well.

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

I would prefer to avoid such iconification if possible

[nukeador (Rubén Martín)]

I remember that it was considered initially, but not applied for now due the potential icon-noise in the homepage listing.

In any case, a better presentation of community categories is being discussed

Icons for categories

Category icons could improve the visual appearance and usability of this forum, especially once the migration introduces a much larger number of categories. Displaying flags for country-level categories was already mentioned as a possibility and would be a good example use case. At the moment, we use Unicode characters/emojis to achieve a similar effect for some categories, such as “:lady_beetle: This forum issues and requests” and “:heavy_plus_sign: New category requests”. This is a decent app…

[Petsamo]

Currently they all have logos but almost all of the logos look similar and doesnt help finding the one youre looking for.

If i understood correctly the countries are gonna be listed by recent activity, which makes finding the desired country even slower. In the old forum it was alphabetical, which helped.

Having a clear symbol (a flag) would save the reader from reading lot of countries names till the one looked for would be found.

So a compromise of a flag instead of the OSM logo could be one solution if the flag would be impossible to fit in the name line.