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Why has MN changed colour?

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GeniuneWorkOfFart · 18/09/2025 15:31

It's awful! About 10 mins ago I refreshed a page and the blue banners changed to a much brighter shade, and the OP is highlighted in grey instead of green, and I hate it. It's too bright. What's happening??

Galaxy A55, latest version of Chrome.

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muddyford · 18/09/2025 16:06

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 16:03

How did you change it back? Where did you find the old colours - the lilac, the real green?

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Go into your account, then into Talk settings and choose green for OP and magenta for your own posts. Click save and carry on as before.

cornbunting · 18/09/2025 16:06

NoCommentingFromNowOn · 18/09/2025 15:33

I like it!

But…how do I save a thread?

Edited - I’m peach coloured now instead of green 😵‍💫

second edit - changed it in the settings, but it’s very very pale. I liked my proper green.

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Same, I had OP set to be green, but now the colour choices are too pale: green, grey, and white are all too hard to see, so I'm stuck with blue. Shame really, I liked blue for admin, green for OP, pink for me

MyrtleLion · 18/09/2025 16:05

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 15:54

You can, but you can't get the old colours back.

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They could have given us the option to revert to the original.

Now we have stereotypical baby pink and blue, coincidentally the trans colours but not green and purple, the suffragette/women's rights colours (with white - strictly Green, White and Violet, standing for Give Women Votes - and we didn't get a vote on this).

moto748e · 18/09/2025 16:05

It can be improved/ameliorated, but still doesn't look as good as the original set-up, for me.

FeralWoman · 18/09/2025 16:05

The colours are giving me the beginning niggles of a migraine. The blue in particular. Please give us back the old colours.

diddl · 18/09/2025 16:05

I could probably tolerate the new blue if I could have my old choice of colours back!

nomas · 18/09/2025 16:04

I really like it, it feels fresher and more modern.

I was disappointed though, I thought it had introduced 'see all' for every poster, not just the OP but it hasn't.

Rowgtfc72 · 18/09/2025 16:04

Its very bright. 😎

teawamutu · 18/09/2025 16:04

Another voice begging for the old look back - I hate this! So much harder to read.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 16:03

muddyford · 18/09/2025 16:01

I've just changed it back on Talk Settings in my account. Irritating though.

How did you change it back? Where did you find the old colours - the lilac, the real green?

Legomania · 18/09/2025 16:03

I'm sure I'll get used to it. The read/unread links look very 2005 now though.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 16:01

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 15:54

You can, but you can't get the old colours back.

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Go to 'Settings' & 'Talk Settings'. You can have:

white
washed-out greeny-grey
washed-out grey-green
bilious pale salmon (named 'Magenta')
blue (so everything looks like it's from MN)

I really can't understand the logic behind this change. Still, it should be easy for MN to change back to something more comfortable for its users.

Why has MN changed colour?
muddyford · 18/09/2025 16:01

I've just changed it back on Talk Settings in my account. Irritating though.

blankittyblank · 18/09/2025 15:59

Oh i like it!!! I prefer this to the old colours

moto748e · 18/09/2025 15:59

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 15:54

And who needs OP & 'My posts' to be written above every relevant post? The colours were to make them easy to spot - not that that works now because they're too similar, leaving out the bilious orange & the MNHQ blue.

This is really making things worse, not better.

Exactly this. The flags are completely unnecessary. And although the default colours can be changed, the choice is limited.

blankittyblank · 18/09/2025 15:59

I'm only commenting to see what my posts look like 😄

DeanStockwelll · 18/09/2025 15:59

Well I have just changed my colours but they all look washed out , it's hard to see the difference between most of them.

myglowupera · 18/09/2025 15:59

I prefer the colour it was before.

diddl · 18/09/2025 15:57

The available colours suck.

Yup!

DaisyChain505 · 18/09/2025 15:57

It’s awful. Hurts my eyes looking at the page. Won’t be spending time on here if it stays.

CoubousAndTourmaIet · 18/09/2025 15:57

This is not kind for those of us with migraine.

JewelleryCat · 18/09/2025 15:56

This has happened to me as well. I was using dark mode on here, it’s the best for my eyes and now I can’t use the colours on dark mode so have had to switch back to light mode which is very bright and hurting my eyes. Is this because I updated my iPad yesterday to the latest version?

FeralWoman · 18/09/2025 15:56

I really don’t need a big maroon “My posts” on my posts. I know that they’re mine. They have my name and they’re green. Super pale green now but green.

The available colours suck.

hilariousharold · 18/09/2025 15:55

I love it tbh.

twilightcafe · 18/09/2025 15:55

I like this new look, and having my posts in a different colour.