Timeline for Contrast problem for new font color of Stack Overflow dark mode
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| Nov 13, 2023 at 21:08 | history | edited | cottontail | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2023 at 8:40 | history | edited | Jordy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 1, 2023 at 11:16 | comment | added | thisisjaymehta | Someone at Stack Overflow please fix this high contrast colors. Who the heck had this idea of changing perfectly fine colors. Using dark mode on editors and other sites and suddenly coming to stack overflow to be greeted with these god-forbiden colors. | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 10:12 | vote | accept | Jordy | ||
| Oct 30, 2023 at 10:10 | answer | added | Jordy | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 23, 2023 at 2:37 | comment | added | David C. Rankin |
Getting rid of the bottom-border and changing the tag background to something like --theme-tag-background-color: rgb(48, 50, 51); really, really helps. The mix of "blues" in the Top Questions entries along with the bright outlines around the elements really make the site hard to read in dark-mode.
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| Oct 20, 2023 at 22:09 | comment | added | ad absurdum | At first I thought that something had gone wrong with my monitor, then I thought that I would get used to the new colors, but now I don't think so. The new dark mode looks terrible to me and is much harder to read than the old one. I find the red and green inbox and vote notifications to be particularly problematic. | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 20:49 | comment | added | QHarr | Text is now a little too bright for my eyes in dark mode. @PeterCordes same issue for me with darkreader and no userscript targeting the button style. | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 17:08 | comment | added | Diego Borba | I really didn't like it when it changed, so much so that I asked this question. But now, after 1 day of use, it is literally hurting my eyes! I had to switch my site to the light mode for it to be minimally usable. | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 16:49 | history | edited | Super Jade | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 20, 2023 at 16:48 | answer | added | Super Jade | timeline score: 18 | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 16:23 | comment | added | Julien BERNARD | You're not alone, it shocked me opening the website today. | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 16:07 | comment | added | Kaddath | Same here, it's harder to read, the difference between visited and non-visited links is not very clear, the scrollbars are very hard to see, and the salmon pink instead of red is really ugly, why change something that worked? | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 15:35 | comment | added | Mark Ransom | See Why can't the human eye focus blue light? | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 15:08 | comment | added | General Grievance | The fact that the code-block scrollbars were black on a very dark background when released made me think they broke something. | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 7:02 | comment | added | Chaosfire | I am baffled someone actually has approved of this new font. Everything is high contrast now, and high contrast toggle actually does even more contrast, albeit barely discernible. I tried to get used to it, but after 5 minutes I am almost getting a headache because of it... | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 6:56 | comment | added | Konrad | I thought that my eyes broke entirely | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 6:30 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | I don't like it, but I'm not sure if it's something I'll get used to or not. On SE sites that don't support dark mode themselves, the new color scheme is absolute garbage with the browser extension I use, darkreader.org. With its attempt at dark mode, the difference between vote-total color and the background is barely perceptible, and the vote arrows barely change when clicking. (Although I also use a separate user-script to revert the button style to a triangle, not that ugly circle, so maybe there's a bad interaction there.) | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 6:03 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Oct 20, 2023 at 3:57 | comment | added | Jordy |
I'm proud that I'm not the only one. It is highlighted as Hot Meta Posts: meta.stackoverflow.com/q/426889/12715723
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| Oct 20, 2023 at 3:53 | comment | added | philipxy | My brain makes the blue text background dimly glow blue, like a fuzzy dim version of inline code format. Much better in hi-contrast mode though. | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 3:53 | comment | added | Augusto Vasques | I'm also experiencing a similar issue due to the high contrast. | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 3:50 | comment | added | MrDiamond | You're not the only one. It really hinders my ability to actually absorb what I'm reading | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 3:49 | comment | added | Augusto Vasques | Related to META Stack Exchange - New colors launched. | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 3:43 | history | asked | Jordy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |