Submitted by hollyhoppet admin in meta
devtesla wrote
Reply to comment by no_defun_allowed in just pushed some visual changes by hollyhoppet
lol, I changed the tabs because I use an iphone se, which is too narrow to fit how wide the tabs get. I changed the style to work better while taking up less space, and I like how it makes the site just a little bit different from Raddle. Let me know if you want help making it work on jstpst.
no_defun_allowed wrote (edited )
I really like the tightness of it all.
(Don't tell anyone on Raddle but I hate the material jerkoff they have with all the space they're wasting. I went there for text, not backgrounds.)
cat wrote
! ! ! hey it is me an raddle snithc and you are being reported
no_defun_allowed wrote
You're a day late. ShiningWing knows of my secret guerrilla plot to take down Material themes for good.
cat wrote (edited )
i am fine with non-material (just kidding) but get ready for a large roast! your /f/memer skin doesnt fulfill your ultra utilitarian needs and infact works counter to reader accessibilty, usability, and eyepleasingness and is therefore unable to display the lotsa information that you so desperately need.
reasons: the shadows make each letter harder to read (anti-eye design) and rendering this additional text takes up valuable bytes which means that everyone has to load more and pay more for data costs (anti worker design?). similar issues are to be found in the lack of contrast on text and their background, e.g. the buttons 'hot', 'new', etc buttons which feature deep green text on dark blue shadow on a cornflower blue >> thats just too much man! you also use 8 different colours that dont really work together. In this extremely mean rant/criteque, i havent done any scientific methods of analysis unfortunately because i am v. lazy, but try looking at saturation differences, colour blindness tests (the raddle banner is green on green for protanpla blindness), and color contrast tests (the raddle banner and the aformentioned 'hot' types have a contrast ratio of 1.44:1 and 2.97:1 respectively, which doesn't pass any requirements, even as i ignore the shadows that would make it even worse).
so the beautiful thing about material design (while made by trashman boogle co) is that it takes these issues out of your hands through a simple and beautiful design langauge, where you end up with a webpage that is accessible, readable, and doesnt look like ass. thankyou for listening to my speech. i think on raddle we might need to take some direct action to make ugly forums more accessible thanks as well.
no_defun_allowed wrote
Hm, I'll take a look at that. Thanks!
(In the meanwhile, Postmills let you disable forum themes and let you specify one. A high contrast one could be nice. /f/TeX is a starting point but even the alternate background for sidebar could be improved.)
devtesla wrote
I agree but I also realize that information density is also just my own preference lol
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