Update to webchat guest colours

I had forest green and lavender blush before (for a few months now) and now they are just a pale squib it's so hard to spot my posts and OP's posts.
I tried changing them since the new colours to olive and dark lavender but it didn't change anything! It's awful!

My post there is next to a MNHQ post and they both look the same colour to me Why so pale, I don't understand.

Jessica I'm sorry but I really don't understand as best I can see the colours from the old days are still being used but I'm horrid insipid colours that are difficult to spot and reasigbed in some cases. Can't you just change it back to the way it was. Or give us a customizable option? This seems like change for the sake of change I'm afraid.

But I don't like the new version you are going to be showing us.

Fair enough you want to change the colours but can't you make them darker?!

Desktop site is fine but I mostly use the mobile one.

Testing cos my customised colours have gone on the mobile site so trying out the desktop site.

It's crap! Please change back!

I only use laptop and PC, I was purple, OP was green. I lost the ability to customise colours a while ago, but the colours I had previously set remained.

Now, again NOT MOBILE, I have pale, eye strainingly pale, colours. But, as I have explained before, MN does not listen to/believe anyone who knows about colour contrasts and legibility. The background is still white and, even before this change gave far too strong a contrast against the text - something EVERY website designer, dyslexia specialist and teacher has known about for decades.

Now this, which just compounds the issue. Sorry MNHQ, this is very poor form. You do know better! You have been told by enough people, educators, designers, etc!

The colours on the mobile site are far too pale (colours on desktop site don't seem to have changed).

It makes it very hard for me to easily differentiate between my posts, OPs posts, official MN posts.

The colours need to be bolder or its pointless having them at all.

I only use MN on my phone and I had custom colours too. Agree with everyone saying the current ones are too pale.

I had customised (strong) colours on the mobile site, and now they've gone. It wasn't just on the desktop site.

I never use the desktop site. I think I last customised on mobile a year or two ago.

I don't care if colours are changed but they need to be brighter and different I used to have myself pink, op green and MN blue

I'd customised and it's changed. I can't tell the difference between the op, myself and MN it's all just different shades of beige

On desktop (on a mac, using latest version of Chrome) - I had MNHQ as blue, my replies were a lilacy colour, and OPs were quite a bright green. Now OPs are a pastel green, and my responses a pastel yellow. I've been here a year, I'm not sure if that counts as an older user or not (I'd imagine not).

I wouldn't have thought that using the pastel colours would be good for users with visual impairments - I don't care about the colours as such, but the lack of contrast between them and the normal white posts isn't great. Are there any plans to introduce a higher contrast version to change this?

The previous colour scheme was very clear, this seems like a backwards step for accessibility, which is a shame.

I commented on the other thread - I only use MN on my phone - I thought I had customised my colours but obvs not. I'm finding the pale colours too pale - it's hard to scan threads. Please can the colours be darker?

The new colours are far too light. Hard to distinguish between posts.

Hate the new insipid colouring which makes it hard to distinguish OP posts etc.

I don't like the new colours either. They're very light. Why??

Ok- I'm pale yellow now.
FFS. I customised all this year's ago.

OPs have gone peach. I'm pink. I thought I was going mad and posted a thread .

I had customised but my colours have changed too.

MNHQ I don't normally complain but I hate these new colours. They make reading the threads very difficult and the colour contrast is straining my eyes. Please can you do something about it. Or give us the customize option back. Or the old colour back. Personally I think you've broken something that didn't need fixing.

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