patreon rebrand
Patreon got rid of their cute randomly generated fox avatars in favor of weirdo blobs, and in doing so they also deleted the GitHub repo for the old generator and the blog post they made about it
which is just. bizarre, to me
I found a fork of the generator, but it was outdated (latest commit 2017) — the Wayback machine had only the repo homepage as of 2020, but that was enough to get the commit hash for the latest commit at the time
GitHub hasn't GC'd the repo yet, so I was able to pluck that commit off their servers and make an archive of it despite no current repo referencing it
it might still be out of date, but it's better than the random fork i found
the blog post: https://web.archive.org/web/20230522195254/https://blog.patreon.com/an-open-letter-to-boring-avatars-everywhere-meet-foxes
the generator: https://git.sleeping.town/mirrors/foxy-moxy
it's funny to me because their new avatar generator has exactly the issues the writer of the original fox avatar blog post was complaining about
patreon rebrand
@unascribed makes me wish software had a way to plug in an avatar generator
