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Discussion
NoIP said:
Alucidnation said:
Must admit, the pale blue colour does make things a little more difficult to read.
What is this pale blue colour you're referring to? On desktop it's all white and light grey alternating post backgrounds with black lettering. The only (dark) blue (I have no pale blue anywhere) on my screen is the small amount as the header background and the forum title font.
edit: the background to my own posts is pale blue, but that's all.
Well this is one way to go I suppose.....
It's like a design for "My First Forum" written in Basic. It's very nostalgic.
That's the nicest things I can think to say right now. Oh, hang on! You've fixed it so that it finally shows what I've visited which is a BIG improvement so take a pat on the back for that, even if it was already working for the last decade on Classic.
Lets call it Retro and we can claim it's meant to look like this and you didn't get a colour blind 4 year old with some crayons to design it.
Never fail to be surprised by this place.
It's like a design for "My First Forum" written in Basic. It's very nostalgic.
That's the nicest things I can think to say right now. Oh, hang on! You've fixed it so that it finally shows what I've visited which is a BIG improvement so take a pat on the back for that, even if it was already working for the last decade on Classic.
Lets call it Retro and we can claim it's meant to look like this and you didn't get a colour blind 4 year old with some crayons to design it.
Never fail to be surprised by this place.
ked off home 
rscott said:
NoIP said:
Alucidnation said:
Must admit, the pale blue colour does make things a little more difficult to read.
What is this pale blue colour you're referring to? On desktop it's all white and light grey alternating post backgrounds with black lettering. The only (dark) blue (I have no pale blue anywhere) on my screen is the small amount as the header background and the forum title font.edit: the background to my own posts is pale blue, but that's all.
Who on earth signed off on pale blue over grey and white, and slightly darker grey over grey and white for the colour scheme?
It's so bad, it's almost as if they don't actually possess eyes themselves - just thought it was cool and hip to pastelise everything.
https://www.viget.com/articles/color-contrast
https://www.w3.org/TR/AERT#color-contrast
http://webaim.org/blog/wcag-2-0-and-link-colors/
With the blue on grey, and blue on white - you're probably just about scraping a contrast ratio of 3.
Inverting grey over blue and white over blue is fine, that stands out - but whoever signed off on the help/smilies/rules/username display/post count/login/logout text needs to revisit and adjust as it could cause eye strain, and on a predominantly text based medium - that's not a good thing.
Also, the pale blue wash for 'your posts' causes the default HTML links above to lose contrast, making them harder to see (although being the links I put up, it's not that big a deal however it still needs looking at imo)
It's so bad, it's almost as if they don't actually possess eyes themselves - just thought it was cool and hip to pastelise everything.
https://www.viget.com/articles/color-contrast
https://www.w3.org/TR/AERT#color-contrast
http://webaim.org/blog/wcag-2-0-and-link-colors/
With the blue on grey, and blue on white - you're probably just about scraping a contrast ratio of 3.
Inverting grey over blue and white over blue is fine, that stands out - but whoever signed off on the help/smilies/rules/username display/post count/login/logout text needs to revisit and adjust as it could cause eye strain, and on a predominantly text based medium - that's not a good thing.
Also, the pale blue wash for 'your posts' causes the default HTML links above to lose contrast, making them harder to see (although being the links I put up, it's not that big a deal however it still needs looking at imo)
NoIP said:
rscott said:
NoIP said:
Alucidnation said:
Must admit, the pale blue colour does make things a little more difficult to read.
What is this pale blue colour you're referring to? On desktop it's all white and light grey alternating post backgrounds with black lettering. The only (dark) blue (I have no pale blue anywhere) on my screen is the small amount as the header background and the forum title font.edit: the background to my own posts is pale blue, but that's all.
Google chrome on OSX.
I might try clearing cookies and trying that.
Edit: Nope, still the same for me.
rscott said:
xjay1337 said:
Likes Fast Cars said:
xjay1337 said:
Jobbo said:
Hilarious - so many complaints about wanting the desktop site on mobile and instead they give us what looks like the mobile site on desktop 
Yes . that's the issue.
The ONE thing people generally agreed on, on Desktop site was fine.
Now it looks naff.
I can get used to it.
but PLEASE CHANGE THE QUOTING BACK TO THE OLD WAY.
The bubbles are very ghey, unreadablle.
No lines around it. Edited by hidetheelephants on Tuesday 25th April 18:20
hidetheelephants said:
rscott said:
xjay1337 said:
Likes Fast Cars said:
xjay1337 said:
Jobbo said:
Hilarious - so many complaints about wanting the desktop site on mobile and instead they give us what looks like the mobile site on desktop
Yes . that's the issue.
The ONE thing people generally agreed on, on Desktop site was fine.
Now it looks naff.
I can get used to it.
but PLEASE CHANGE THE QUOTING BACK TO THE OLD WAY.
The bubbles are very ghey, unreadablle.
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