Off-topic, but I absolutely loathe new Flask logo. Old one[0] has this vintage, crafty feel. And the new one[1] looks like it was made by a starving high schooler experimenting with WordArt.
[0] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Flask_lo...
[1] - https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/_images/flask-na...
1. Original logo has country charm and soul.
2. Replaced with a modern soulless logo.
3. Customer outrage!
4. Company (or open source project) comes to its senses and returns to old logo.
https://media.nbcboston.com/2025/08/cracker-barrel-split.jpg
(n.b. The Cracker Barrel Rebellion is sometimes associated with MAGA. I am very far from that, but I have to respect when people of any political stripe get something right.)
More real-world is that I know tons of friends/relatives in the South and I don't know of even ONE that liked the redesign.
https://fortune.com/2025/09/18/sardar-biglari-war-against-cr...
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/05/03/hysteria-over-jade-h...
Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA director says
Gov. Greg Abbott's decision in 2015 to ask the Texas State Guard to monitor a federal military exercise prompted significant criticism. A former CIA director said Wednesday that the move emboldened Russians to next target elections.
Anyone in a position of authoritarian power can say anything. Until it's prosecuted in an open court of law, all bets are off. Hysteria is easily promoted by anyone in the world - even American companies are capable of it - and there is much profit to be made from Russophobia, especially in the heinous market conditions of America's military industrial complex: a very well known hysteria-promoting industry.
In fact, by spreading this rumour, you are more soviet than you might understand.
Bots aren't necessarily aimed to promote "glorious motherland" directly, there are probably hundreds of people on a payroll searching for easy, popular targets to wreak havoc.
Give it up. The Russians aren't coming for you. You're gunning for them.
You’re probably a bot because you say things I don’t agree with!
Wait! Maybe I AM THE ‘bot?
What were we talking about again?
If you think that doesn't happen organically, take another look at the site you're on.
Your "its the Russians" is just matroska-izing the real issue, which is that the people don't have a voice, in your mind, if the political viewpoint doesn't match a world view in which "the Russians are the bad guys".
The genocide of Gaza was been hugely unpopular since the very beginning.
I'm not saying there wasn't. BUT the extreme consistency of the people commenting about it on sites like Reddit combined with the fact that it ultimately ends up helping Trump get elected makes me update my Bayesian estimate that Russia and/or the GOP is behind a lot of them. You saw the same thing in 2015 with all the "Hillary will start world war 3" posts. Those weren't organic at all. You see it in every US presidential election since Hillary v Trump: Many "people" making very similar posts about some reason why democrats or liberals shouldn't vote for the Democratic candidate. This works because voter turnout is what wins or loses elections.
It would be quite naive to think they don't do the same in the virtual world of the internet, where it is even cheaper…
>Cracker Barrel
>break US politics
It's more interesting to me how, without fail, a comment always pops in at the mention of Cracker Barrel to say "those were bots, fellow human."
I wonder how much this differs from the percentage for any trending topic on X?
They had both new and “classic” for a while co existing.
Fun fact: so did most focus groups and (I think?) blind taste tests when it was just presented as a new drink, but they tended to be horrified by the idea of it actually replacing classic Coke. The problem with that switch was mostly psychological / cultural, not chemical.
Also, Diet Coke, which remains quite popular, is still based on the New Coke formula except with the sweetener swapped out. The no-calorie version of classic Coke is Coke Zero. The Coca-Cola Company has been working to increase Coke Zero's popularity, and it is now much more popular than it used to be, but I think Diet Coke continues to be more popular than Coke Zero even now.
This might be a per-country thing -- Coke Zero has always been more popular in Australia ever since it came out (it can be hard to find Diet Coke in vending machines and for single-bottle sales here). Of course, Coke (and Pepsi) can taste different in different countries but I would say the Aussie one tastes pretty similar to the American one.
reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
Just like in the old one. That is not strange in the slightest, it is a very common feature of typefaces that the ascenders of lower case letters overshoot the height of uppercase. That is one of the ways to distinguish an uppercase i from a lower case L.
> And then the mark. I dont get any of this.
They look to be following the Material Design logo trend that was in fashion a while ago. Following trends in logo design is never a good idea, it makes them look outdated soon.
The old logo is classic and bespoke. I could recall it from memory. It's impressionable.
The new one looks like an unfunded 2005-era dorm room startup. XmlHttpRequests for sheep herders.
The old logo is much better.
Neither is the new one, because you have to be a madman to show this hideous thing anywhere.
Who the fuck cares? That never hurt flask from becoming a well beloved widely adopted tidy framework.
And it's trivial to "resize and present" the old log on "assets that aren't rectangular"...
>Flask isn't a country podunk restaurant
Yeah, apparently by the new logo it's a generic mall fast food chain restaurant for people with zero taste
Here's Sysco, generic mall fast food distributor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXXQTzQXRFc
https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sysco-Log...
You're measuring it by irrelevant measures. This is like when all the terrible Western game devs criticised Elden Ring because it didn't have "good UX".
Thinking about hand-rolled web services, I usually imagine either a stealth alcoholic's metal flask or a mad scientist's Erlenmeyer flask.
I also hate the new ones. And most of what modern design pumps out now days.
An once whimsical corner of web development has lost its charm due to arbitrary trends.