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 “
This forum issues and requests” and “
New category requests”. This is a decent approximation. However, this causes the symbol to be included even in contexts where a purely textural rendidion of the category title might be more appropriate.
Should we support this properly? There appears to be at least one relevant Discourse plugin:
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, etc., but those are not available for all communities, since some of them don’t correspond to counties: Català, LATAM, etc. So proper icons would be great.