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    Its almost like they didnt listen to the feedback on the colour scheme at all 🤔 Commented Feb 24 at 19:15
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    @Robotnik Shocker, that. Commented Feb 24 at 19:27
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    @Robotnik What do you mean, when they polled the community last year and gave us the deeply meaningful choice of "dark text on bright orange" or "dim text on brighter orange" we all clearly voted for option 1. /s Commented Feb 24 at 20:58
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    Yes, the colors are awful. The whole design is horrible. Commented Feb 25 at 9:49
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    I never understand why the dark mode is only avaliable on the SO Stack. Any reason for it? Commented Feb 25 at 11:27
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    @DhairyaKumar Mostly it’s that they don’t want to have to deal with the different colour pallets for the various themed sites, and that they don’t see it as a priority, if I remember correctly. Commented Feb 25 at 15:49
  • Even in Chrome, the favicon is so ugly that I moved it to a folder. SO has lived in my Bookmarks Bar for years; no more. :( Commented Feb 25 at 18:51
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    This is what made me look up this post. Unbelievably bad favicon. I think they made it in darkmode only and never tested light themes- this is becoming more common, unfortunately. Commented yesterday
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    Ack why is it so far off centre... oh wait that's the chromatic aberration on my glasses. I hope, anyway. Commented yesterday
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    @Kyle: I actually made the exact same observation! This icon is very likely to be interpreted by my brain as having the stacks non-centred because of my glasses and their chromatic aberration. Actually, if I move my head right and left, while keeping my eyes on the icon, the stacks are animated sideways. Pretty cool, actually. This would be a nice physics demo (but it's not a nice favicon IMHO). Commented yesterday
  • It is a little wild that they appear to have removed what little trace of color there is from the actual website, only to add that color back but only in the favicon... exactly the wrong single place to bring that color back, especially with how the color scheme (at least in my eyes) is associated with one other particular site (and how many folks use SO at work, where that other site shouldn't) Commented yesterday