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 (DIR) Post #B4zDZJEaac0tRNT68G by paco@infosec.exchange
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       I run an online forum and I'm about to relaunch it on Discourse. One of my users tried out the new Discourse interface and thought it was OK, but not great.He sends me a message saying it could be better, and what do I think of this? It's just a fantasy layout he made with AI. He has no idea how any of this works, he's just making pictures. The layout he's sent can't be done. And even getting close would take weeks of programming and making a custom theme in EmberJS.I tried to make the analogy of going to a car dealership with a picture of a car that you made in AI. All the dealer can do is offer you the car on the lot that comes closest to your picture.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4zDZJdl5298hRFCMa by mrfoostang@foostang.xyz
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       Can you feed it to an AI and ask for a style sheet in return?
       
 (DIR) Post #B4zDZJgwtAhMrKjkKu by paco@infosec.exchange
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       I made a new logo for the site, by hand, in Inkscape. I put it out there for the community to look at. This guy uploads a few options that look really professional. Frankly, better than mine. I think "wow, I didn't know we had a graphic designer in our community." I should have known better.He just used AI. And so when I go back to him and ask things like "hey, can you send the source file for that?" and "do you have it in SVG?" he doesn't even know what I mean. The PNG he posted (that the users liked) was the sum total of all he had. No high res version, no vector version. No ability to move things around. or anything. Just this one, final result PNG.One thing that bothers me is that I will come across as a jerk if I push back, saying that I'm not going to do all the work required to bring his low-effort design to reality. His, for example, was on a white background. I need transparent to go with a dark theme or a light theme. I need SVG or some kind of high res source so I can make multiple versions for different purposes (icon, web logo, horizontal positions, vertical positions, etc.)People suddenly feel qualified to do things in domains where they know nothing at all. And this guy thinks he's done something. If I tell him he hasn't he will point to the logo right there on the screen as evidence that he has.