You should probably add what license the icon will be under, if it's submitted to the project. Creative Commons? GPL?

Here is a showcase of my icons, both monochrome and full detail. One was inspired by the UFO design, one by this community's current placeholder icon. I could tweak these a little more, but I think that these are good for now.

Each individual icon in SVG and PNG format (zip archive)

Here’s my submission! Pictured below is the little dude taking a space walk out in psychedelic space. I loved the palette of the original icon, so I kept that mostly the same.

Mockup:

Submission images:

I liked the old one. We should keep it and/or allow people to vote to keep it in, for now. And we can repeat the contest when the userbase grows.

I kinda like the avatar your account has... Would be a fine app icon.

I like the current icon, it's lovely. Just needs the background tweaked a bit.

Just a point of consideration for those submitting ideas... Make sure you zoom way out on your icon and look at how it will appear when sized for a phone.

IMO that's the biggest issue with the current icon - I just can't tell wtf it is when it's like 1/4” square.

Not a criticism, just something that's easy to lose sight of when you're working at a computer.

How about taking inspiration from an ouroboros image.

I am a shitty artist/designer, so I can't help with actual designing. Ouroboros kinda means perpetual state, maybe eternity.

I've been following this thread to check out all the great app icon designs being submitted. But I haven't seen anything more since the Sep 8th deadline about where we go from here. Any news?

I was inspired by Eternity from Marvel Comics who looks like this

The icon is Lemmy's mascot with an infinity symbol for eyes, it is a nod to both the concept of Eternity and a callback to the Infinity client as Eternity was formerly known as Infinity for Lemmy.