Lady Red
Posts: 517
10/11/2012
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Tell me it's not just me who loathes, with a passion, white text on a black background. I just do not see the point in taking a text-based forum and - presumably in an attempt to make it more stylish, or something - making it hard to read.
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Lady Red (childishly stamping her feet and going 'waaaaaaaaaaah')
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Catherine Raymond
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10/11/2012
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Lady Red wrote:
Tell me it's not just me who loathes, with a passion, white text on a black background. I just do not see the point in taking a text-based forum and - presumably in an attempt to make it more stylish, or something - making it hard to read.
Love,
Lady Red (childishly stamping her feet and going 'waaaaaaaaaaah')
I'm with you, Lady Red. I can read white on black fine, but I associate the color scheme with emo kids' LiveJournals and amateurish sites catering to the Ren Fair trade.
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Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
10/14/2012
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Alexis Kennedy wrote:
I moved the other thread about this (because it got posted on the Announcements forum) and it seems to have been lost in the shuffle.
So we seem to have a 2:1 split between lovahs and hatahs here, but the change was made to give us consistent look and feel across the community site, the blog and the company site (about.failbettergames.com). So, we will doubtless tweak details but the change will stay. I hope you'll get used to it. :-)
Now that you've implemented the change....
The white on black isn't too bad, but the bright green on black is kind of eye-watering.
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Lady Red
Posts: 517
10/12/2012
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Alexis Kennedy wrote:
So we seem to have a 2:1 split between lovahs and hatahs here, but the change was made to give us consistent look and feel across the community site, the blog and the company site (about.failbettergames.com). So, we will doubtless tweak details but the change will stay. I hope you'll get used to it. :-)
Thanks for the reply. Alas, I have pretty much stopped reading the blog since the change because I find it so hard on the eyes. I guess I will just have to visit the forum less too. (Is there any chance you could do the original forum style as an alternative forum skin? This would solve the problem...)
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KatarinaNavane
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10/17/2012
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bleah, mine only just switched to the white on black... I was hoping I could keep the old version indefinitely! No such luck. File me under "hatahs"
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Little The
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10/11/2012
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Personally, I do rather like this format. White on black/gray is generally more pleasing on the eyes, I find -- I have heard black on white pages been compared to "staring into a lightbulb", and I must agree. The only issue I would have is with the contrast -- perhaps the text can be whitened a bit so it's not quite so gray?
Edit: Oh, and links are automatically highlighted now, so that's a plus.
edited by Little The on 10/11/2012
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