Why has MN changed colour?

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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.

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

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).

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

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.

Only posting to see what colour I am lol

I like it. I think it is softer on the eye and less corporate looking.

Eww... peach 🍑

Ooo and my post is pink!

Chnaged for me too and it is now a nightmare to read. Too bright and virtually no distinction between posts.

Just going to add this is probably disability discrimination - no way are those colours etc accessible!

No need! That blue is certainly not softer on my eyes! Off to settings...

Those aren't the old colours, nothing like them.

It’s bloody awful, very harsh on the eyes and also looks very dated.

Also hate the brightness - it's horrid.

I usually browse MN on my phone and so I've turned my phone's screen brightness down to counteract the colour change. It does help somewhat, so would recommend if anyone else feels it's too bright.

The green is really pale and the magenta is more like a very bright salmon, nothing like the old green and lilac for me.

Definitely need to give optionality - one option being ‘original’

people go on about computers taking over the world when IT people still can’t have solutions to pretty basic issues

It’s quite infantilising with the ‘my posts’ flag and the colours tbh

It's bloody awful, isn't it?

Don’t like it!

the blue on blue is harder to read. It almost looks like blurring

I like the colours. I have processing issues and used to drive me insane that op posts were same colour as my posts

where can I request uncool me?

Mines bright blue with OP in fluorescent pink/purple
its hurting my eyes to read

I had op posts in a nice green and mine in pink previously.

You could have changed that in settings. We still can now, but the colour options are now rubbish, either really pale or very bright. The previous colours were much better.

The simplest solution is for MN to add the old colours into the settings menus. I mean, MN will never see how each of our screens looks to us, & it won't cost them any more. It's not like someone's charging them more for hosting something with more pigment in it. They can set up the default colours they'd like people to use, but they should also provide the colours people WANT to use.

I just looked at settings. How do I change it?

it offers me default or dark or light. But no colours.