A few updates to Mumsnet 🎨

[LizzyMumsnet]

You might notice things are looking a bit different today. We’ve given Mumsnet a colour refresh, based on feedback from you in our surveys (thank you!).

We’ve also moved a couple of things around to reduce clutter and make things easier to find:

• Watch now sits under the OP post
• Report has moved into the meatball menu (the three dots on posts)

As ever, we’d love to hear what you think, so please share your feedback below.

Sorry, but my eyes and head are telling me something very different than what is being claimed about accessibility. I've turned my brightness down from 50 to 25 and mn is still bothering my eyes when other sites are not.

Just to follow up so it’s clear: we’re not ignoring the concerns about brightness.

The colours do pass accessibility tests, but we recognise the feedback that they can still be hard to read. We will be making them a shade darker to improve contrast and reduce brightness, and we’re prioritising this change as soon as possible.

It was me. I was using the pink.

I hate the colour change. Not sure if it's because I'm dyslexic but it's just too bright. I've had to turn all the colour protection functions up just to write this post.

On the plus side, this could be great for my productivity because I will DEFINITELY be using your website less.

The brightness seems to come from the blue bits. The banner across the top, Watch Thread, new posts etc. It's almost luminous and that is what I mean by too bright.

I can't believe this - which standards approve blue on blue?

@KatyMumsnet can you explain WHY the change was considered necessary? I think people are rather puzzled and it would probably help if you could say why it needs to be different.

This. Whether intentionally or accidentally as a result of fiddling too much Mumsnet have done something.

The brightness is ridiculous. It's causing migraines.

@KatyMumsnet It's not just the contrast - the colours do not match the description on my settings. Maybe the MNHQ devices have different display settings and you can't see what we're seeing, so here's a quick verbal description of the most visually offensive ones.

Green is now pale pastel Chartreuse (virulent yellow-green) - google it if needs be, I've never seen its like, apart from when I accidentally chewed too many Haliborange.

Purple/Lavender is pale/pastel peach. Imagine the worst bridesmaids dress from the 1980s, that's the colour it would have been.

@JaneJeffer, if you click on them you can see what's available in that menu.

We’ve also heard concerns that highlighting your own posts so clearly could cause issues in domestic violence situations. We are taking this feedback very seriously and will be implementing a setting so people can hide the labels.

@KatyMumsnet But you don't need a setting so that people can hide the (potentially very harmful) labels. Just take the labels away. Please could we have an explanation of the thought process behind adding them in the first place. It has always (well ever since I've been on here) been possible to use our settings to show OPs posts in one colour and our own posts in another. That worked fine - what was the reason for deciding to make the "colours" virtually indistinguishable and adding a bloody great glaring label.

Considering how many threads on MN relate to abuse/violence, it seems unbelievable that nobody, nobody actually saw this as an issue. Shameful.

Mine aren’t working then

I think it looks much better. Fresher and less dated.

just wish you would get rid of the very annoying pop up advert in the top right hand corner.

Are you sure about that? (You might want to wait for the images to be approved before you answer.)

I think the brightness has been dialed down a little since yesterday. It could be my device decided to do it automatically.

Please let us have the suffragette colours again as an option.

Well I'm glad to see that you've moved the watch button back and have noticed that you've fixed the issue with the ad threads being illegible but can you please fix the colour and brightness or atleast come back and explain why the new settings which make the site unusable to anyone with visual impairments and/or migrain suffers @LizzyMumsnet or should we just assume that @mnhq is intentionally discriminating against disabled users?
Before and after screenshot below

HQ, is this what was accessibly approved? 😂 Don't lie now.

This deserves its own thread.

I'm so glad that Mumsnet is reminding me of what my own posts are, just in case there were any concerns about me getting early onset Alzheimers whilst posting on a thread and forgetting both my username and what I'd just posted.

The meatball menu ones aren't red. The ones on the notification menu are red, so I think Jane means those - which don't do anything if you click.

They appear to show which notifications are new. But that information is already shown by both text colour and shading, so the red dots are just another brightly coloured bit of screen clutter for no reason.

Thanks for those. That's a lot of fails.

I have the same feeling about these changes as I do about the shite Radio 4 is replacing the good stuff with - us oldies/migrainies/insert issue of wedon'twantyoursortroundhere choice are no longer valued customers. Hence the dumbing down, or gaudy brightening, as the case may be.

@Lefwyn Thank you for bringing this to our attention we will review and double check everything.

As mentioned previously, we will be updating the colours to ensure they are more contrasting and less bright, as we recognise this is an area where we can improve. We will double and triple check everything before we update it.

Please remove the dreadful purple hue. It’s terrible when you click on active and see all the threads.

@KatyMumsnet @LizzyMumsnet @MNHQ. Just admit you’re sorry and you cocked up with these changes and change everything back to how it was before !! Please take note of what users with disabilities are saying and also about the concerns about DV and the pointless My Post button !!
Elton might have said sorry is the hardest word but it really isn’t and neither is reverting to how Mumsnet was before!!