new community icon
I have a really, really long post about sponsored communities that we're still working on, but we wanted to go ahead and post an announcement about one of the changes we made already. A lot of people brought up concern about being able to distinguish between sponsored communities and regular communities. We were already planning on changing the little community icon, but we didn't actually do that before we posted the announcement, and I'm very sorry about that.
To that end: when you link to a sponsored community, you'll see it listed with a green icon (that is, you'll see
sponsored_comm instead of 
community). This icon will also be used in interest searches (more about those in a subsequent post) so you can scan through the list and immediately identify which communities are sponsored and which ones aren't.
More to come: separating them out on people's list of friends on the profile page (where there aren't icons next to the usernames).
More more to come: We'll be posting about other changes and answers to your questions -- stay tuned. And point your friends here, if they want details.
To that end: when you link to a sponsored community, you'll see it listed with a green icon (that is, you'll see
sponsored_comm instead of community). This icon will also be used in interest searches (more about those in a subsequent post) so you can scan through the list and immediately identify which communities are sponsored and which ones aren't.More to come: separating them out on people's list of friends on the profile page (where there aren't icons next to the usernames).
More more to come: We'll be posting about other changes and answers to your questions -- stay tuned. And point your friends here, if they want details.