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Update to webchat guest colours

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JessicaMumsnet · 05/10/2016 09:18

Hi,
This is a heads up that we're soon to introduce a change to the colours used to highlight posts on desktop and mobile.

If you've been around long enough to have the old style customised colours this won't affect you.

For newer users - we needed to add some new web chat guest colours and retire the awful mustard yellow we used in the past on desktop webchats. As a result of that we then needed to update our other colours too.

Thanks all

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Costacoffeeplease · 11/10/2016 13:01

I had the old custom colours - now gone and the new ones are hideous

StarsandSparkles · 11/10/2016 13:01

Im also colour blind and finding it very hard to tell between the different colours as they are so similar

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 11/10/2016 13:00

Mine have changed too and I had the old custom colours. Honestly they are too pale. I use MN on my phone and it's actually quite hard to see the different colours. I use it mainly to scroll through long threads to find OP updates as sometimes things go off on a tangent between other posters. The colours are too pale to do that.

StarsandSparkles · 11/10/2016 12:59

Wtaf have mnhq done? 😡 the new colours are fucking awful

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JessicaMumsnet · 11/10/2016 12:58

Thanks MrsHathaway, strawberrypenguin and DesolateWaist - Tech are going to look at your accounts specifically to investigate. Not essential but can any of you recall what custom set you had previously?

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MrsHathaway · 11/10/2016 12:50

I have previously set custom colours and I now have the invisible insipid palette.

Coding cock up methinks

strawberrypenguin · 11/10/2016 12:50

I'm sure I had customised colours but mine have changed! Can I change them back I couldn't find he option when I looked.
Hate the new ones they are too pale and don't stand out well enough

DesolateWaist · 11/10/2016 12:48

I had the old colours and they have changed.
The new colours are just too pale.

Queenbean · 11/10/2016 12:48

Magnolia is such a slap in the face. It's like the rice pudding of the colour world. Dull. Bland.

MNHQ may as well be calling us all damp, wet lettuce leaves

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JessicaMumsnet · 11/10/2016 12:48

@AnchorDownDeepBreath

I had the old colours but mine have changed.

That horrendous greeny yellow is awful.

We've had a couple of questions back from Tech.

Had you customised your colours previously? By which we mean gone into your customise area and chosen forest green or an alternative colour scheme? This was an old feature that we used to offer that some Mumsnetters who have been around a while still have.

Users that customised previously shouldn't be affected but newer users will see a change to a new set of colours.

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PoppyPicklesPenguin · 11/10/2016 12:47

They are just such insipid colours

And really difficult to see, I'm constantly squinting at the screen.

I'm not anti change as rule but these are vile

HoneyDragon · 11/10/2016 12:44

And I'm fucking MAGNOLIA

HoneyDragon · 11/10/2016 12:43

Why aren't mnhq in a blue box anymore?

That's just fucking about with the natural order of things is that.

MothersGrim · 11/10/2016 12:39

I always liked HQ posts being in blue because it was a blue logo etc and the colours are too pale.

Both colours are too pale for rapid scrolling on a mobile trying to find an OP update too.

Soubriquet · 11/10/2016 12:35

Even paler? Christ on a bike

I thought mine was bad enough

Queenbean · 11/10/2016 12:33

I've started another thread about this, they're horrible, please revert!

MrsHathaway · 11/10/2016 12:31

I'll just remark that on my screen they're even less obvious than in Soubriquet's screen shot.

MrsHathaway · 11/10/2016 12:30

Agreed. The colours are just too pale. They're barely discernible.

OP pink is bad enough but me yellow is basically invisible (mobile site, Chrome).

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JessicaMumsnet · 11/10/2016 12:30

@AnchorDownDeepBreath

I had the old colours but mine have changed.

That horrendous greeny yellow is awful.

Thanks AnchorDownDeepBreath and we realise colours can be a very personal choice and we were keen to allow users who had already customised their colours to keep them.
We've flagged this to tech to look into.

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OhFuds · 11/10/2016 12:30

^^I agree with all of the above.

The darker colours were better.

Soubriquet · 11/10/2016 12:30

Look at how hard it is to tell them apart

Way too pale

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PointlessUsername · 11/10/2016 12:28

I think the problem is the colours aren't bold enough. They looked washed out.

Soubriquet · 11/10/2016 12:27

It's awful

It's incredibly hard to tell one post from another!!

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 11/10/2016 12:26

I had the old colours but mine have changed.

That horrendous greeny yellow is awful.

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JessicaMumsnet · 11/10/2016 12:25

@Theimpossiblegirl

Is that connected to the Unit Test post? I've been reporting them as spam. Thought we had a bot.

No that's unrelated and nothing to worry about, it was our mistake we were running some tests and they unfortunately got posted live. Sorry about that!

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