Dark Theme Improvement

[Being]

It'll be easy to distinguish my hyperlinks.

Hyperlink

[Illusions]

Why do you have to break shit?

[Being]

Stress testing is destructive.

[Illusions]

Stress testing is destructive.

I don't think this procedure is what you think it is.

[LittleFuzzy]

The blue middle one is the one that's in right now.

And it happens to be the second best color from that array.

I can change it to the orange if it's really wanted, but are you sure? The scheme is shades of grey with touches of blue. The orange is obscene.

I thought you used the default eye-burning scheme anyways?

The orange isn't obscene, it's functional. It's obvious without being painful. Sure it sticks out, but it's supposed to stick out, that's the point. Sure, Dark might use touches of blue already, but when we say touches, we really mean it. They're minimal, and more unobtrusive than hyperlinks are intended to be. And of course I don't use the default. Bright backgrounds are painful for me. You were going to discontinue Dark entirely, remember, and I was one of the people who said they liked it, even slightly preferred it to Classic Blue.

I thought we've already been over the fact that contrast is bad.

No, contrast is not inherently bad. Too much contrast is bad. Likewise, not enough contrast will also see us getting eaten by bears. We want the right amount of contrast (so that it's not fuzzy at all) whose color stands out, and which is not uncomfortably bright. That orange is the same one used for hyperlinks *and by Alber* for years on AtariCC, and here with Classic Blue, so we know it's not too bright, and there is no substantial difference in its display on the Dark theme in the other respects either.

[Illusions]

IMHO the orange in Classic Blue was mainly used because it was used in the Atari CC blue style. I plan on offering a version of Classic Blue without it when I have time, and will need to decide on a new blue to use for links as well. I understand the orange's aesthetic usage, it offers a nice complementary and contrasting color to the analogous blues used, however not everyone may like it, and some have voiced dislike of it...so...yeah...

...frankly a lot of the style decisions that were made when creating Classic Blue boiled down to "What was the Atari version like?" or "Is this in the spirit of the blue Atari style?". It has been freshened up and modernized a bit, as the original style was pre-version 3.5 in vBulletin, and the shift to using mainly the .png image format in 4.0.

...I'm waxing sentimental about the creation of a vBulletin style...

[littlelolligagged]

I found it objectionable in Classic Blue and on Atari as well - the theme I used for ACC didn't differentiate hyperlinks at all, and that was really just fine with me. It seems to me that just a subtle difference is more than sufficient for that.

I believe Ness actually wanted a different color for hyperlinks, though, and since she is the only other person I know of who uses the violet theme (not saying there aren't others, of course) and she doesn't want something glaring and terrible I'm not going to complain about it.

[Illusions]

I found it objectionable in Classic Blue and on Atari as well

Its like having a racist grandparent...sure the racism is objectionable, but there are other qualities that make it lovable...

[Wraith]

The orange isn't obscene, it's functional. It's obvious without being painful. Sure it sticks out, but it's supposed to stick out, that's the point. Sure, Dark might use touches of blue already, but when we say touches, we really mean it. They're minimal, and more unobtrusive than hyperlinks are intended to be. And of course I don't use the default. Bright backgrounds are painful for me. You were going to discontinue Dark entirely, remember, and I was one of the people who said they liked it, even slightly preferred it to Classic Blue.

Alright, the dark deed is done. I hope you can live with the consequences.

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[Illusions]

So this is the color? Its the same as my orange dots!

[Being]

... and she doesn't want something glaring and terrible I'm not going to complain about it.

Then why use the violet theme. That is very glaring.

[Being]

So this is the color? Its the same as my orange dots!

[littlelolligagged]

Then why use the violet theme. That is very glaring.

No, it isn't. Wraithykins did it very very well.

[Being]

No, it isn't. Wraithykins did it very very well.

You need to calibrate your monitor.

[LittleFuzzy]

The font color of hyperlinks in quotes is a different color from hyperlinks normally, and are very hard to read on the black background of quoted material. They're a very dark blue that you really have to focus on to make out. Could they be changed to the standard color for hyperlinks?

[Wraith]

Test

I think it's the fault of the poster. They're copying the formatting and leaving it formatted blue in the quote.