New site poll

[oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends]

I dislike the new site for several reasons.
I prefer the colour blocks for OP & own posts, & it's difficult to read if you have less than perfect eyesight.

YANBU You agree with me

YABU I'm a Luddite who hates change & MN are right.

I’m finding the new colour scheme uncomfortable to read. I have an eye condition which means I can’t switch to dark mode to skirt the issue. Was this current make-over subjected to any accessibility testing?

The washed out colours are making the site difficult to read

So happy to dismiss those with with conditions that this change is detrimental to, nice to know. How kind and inclusive.

It’s far too bright, no matter what colour you choose for OP/your own posts, it isn’t obvious and it’s giving me a headache.

I haven’t voted because I’m not overly fussed either way.
Agree with pp who said each change we get lots of posts like these until people get used to it and then they forget. However I feel for those who get migraines. I don’t but I have dyslexia and the brightness really made it hard to read so I’m on dark mode.

It’s horrible. MN comments were in blue, what are they now? And when you post it’s a revolting apricot beige colour!

I use dark mode and I don't like everything blending into 1 colour.

No. Not keen. I'm trying dark mode but it's not really any better. Another thing. I seem to be getting annoying drop down ads at the top of the page now.

Would love to stay and chat longer but my eyes are going swoggly.

I clicked yabu by mistake and it won’t let me change it! I don’t like it, the contrast is awful

OK. A lot of us are finding it brings on headaches. Is that better?

You obviously find the word triggering triggering 😁

I've changed my bright pink to grey in settings on my laptop.

How do you get dark mode on on the webversion? Icant work it out

You see your little icon top right? Tap/click and drop down and crescent moon dark mode is about five or six down.

Not that it helps much. It's just a different kind of awful. My eyes! My eyes!

I do! 😂

Me too

Thank you superstar!

It does still let you change it, but it's not as obvious when you have as it used to be.

I am struggling with not being able to distinguish between my posts and others. They are all the same now.

I don't mind the blue but the colour options for highlighting OP posts and your own (you can change them in settings) are all so pastel it's hard to distingush from the background white. It wasn't broken, didn't need fixing.

I hardly ever use active, so wasn't entirely sure what the fuss about the brightness was until I went and had a look just now, but the wishywashy pastel colours for highlighting the OP's or your own posts are virtually useless. No, a very faint peach is not magenta, and the green and blue aren't vastly different. Give us back the original colours and add the pastels as alternative options.

As someone who is colour blind some of the links etc are hard to see as I can’t tell what colour they are. I know colour schemes like this often make it harder for tech that some visually impaired people use.

So I would be interesting to see what work was done to ensure those with visual impairments don’t have issue accessing .

Same. I dont like it 😟

The actual white background appears a lot brighter as well. Really dislike it

Do t care about the colours, just wish it would stop jumping about and lose the ads!

It's just too bright. That blue hurts my eyes and my soul

The whole thing looks like a 90s Tesco Value version of Mumsnet.