Blue dot in the PM envelope

[CatsAndTheirPizza]

Dear MNHQ

Is the blue dot in the PM envelope here to stay? It doesn't catch the eye like the red one did & would be quite easy to miss. Sorry to moan ...

Ooooh, I haven't had a blue dot yet (no PMs recently ). But I did notice the little envelope has changed from a grey envelope to a sort-of outline of an envelope. Does this mean that a new PM shows up differently?

Well, that was interesting Hec! Thank you.

But I can now understand why Cats might find it hard to see, particularly if she, and others, are MNing from smartphones/devices though.

I think it is probably OK on a tablet (they kept the same format last time). On a pc it just doesn't catch your eye in the same way that the red one did.

OK, I'm on a PC too. Hec sent me a PM, which I did see - but I totally agree with you Cats, that the yellow and red is more obvious than the yellow and blue.

Oh hell .... Tech's been fiddling again, hasn't he?

Hello

Thanks for flagging this one - I'm not sure what the story is but we'll look into it.

Thank you

FruOla I don't think my envelope was even yellow, it was a not-very-eye-catching colour (can't remember and don't have one at the moment).

Cats, I've just sent you a PM, so you can have another look at it!!

Thank you - just replied. Not very eye-catching ...

Morning. And yes, the red dot has been changed to a blue dot, just to make it all look nicer and more "designed"

We reckon that, once we've all got used to it, it shouldn't make that much difference, especially as you can get email alerts about new PMs aswell.

But we should have let you know this change was happening, rather than leave you to find out for yourselves. We're sorry about that. And we'll try not to do it again

Helen, much as I appreciate the colour coordination point, isn't the point about the dot in the envelope to make it obvious that you've got a message?

Whilst I sometimes have my email open so that I get the message popping up saying I've got a message, I often don't - then I have to rely upon the dot which is now so colour coordinated that its very easy to miss.

Humph! It's silly. Bring back the red one.

Please!

The red dot was visible, and that was the point.

Change for the sake of it, and not for the better.

Red one was much better.

We hear what you're saying but we'd like to let the blue dot "settle in" for a bit.

We can def look at making it a more visible blue, though...

Marking my place on bluedotgate

Ot you could just leave it red?

Helen - if its a 'more visible' blue, it won't go with the colour scheme as well. Red is nicely related to the purple and the blue after all - because if you didn't have the red you wouldn't have the purple...

I get so few PMs it is of little relevance to me.

I don't get many either, but if I do get one, I want to know it's there. Blue schmoo.

I like it.

Cos PMs are like dodo eggs in my world.

I can pretend I just haven't seen the reams of private corresspondance rather than the fact it's always empty.

Go Blue Dot go !

Plus, Pale Blue Dot... I feel like it puts lack of PMs into perspective in the grand scheme ofmthings.

But...an accent colour that contrasted, like say...red, would actually be far more effective in terms of flagging up new mail for people that are evidently far more likeable do get messages.

::pours Helen a gin::

Perhaps electric blue?

Or flashing.

You can colour co-ordinate if movement v static is used to provide the attention grab of contrast.

Or sparkling, glittery envelope when there is new content ?

fgs stop mucking about with things mnhq!

@CarpeVinum

Or sparkling, glittery envelope when there is new content ?

Arf at glittery.