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    Dark theme - please make links stand out more

    It's been bugging me a bit for a while now (actually, ever since the new dark theme was introduced in 2013...) that links are almost invisible until you hover over them.
    Normal text has #dddddd, links have #ffffff, that difference is really hard to spot.

    Could you please change the link color so they stand out a bit more? Maybe add a little hue of actual color to them, something like #9999dd.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
    introduced in 2013...
    Pretty sure that's also the year Minerskinz (who made both of BG's skins) retired from web design.

    Link test blah

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    I just know it was 2013 because I made the icons for the dark skin since the default ones were so confusing ^^;

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
    Could you please change the link color so they stand out a bit more? Maybe add a little hue of actual color to them, something like #9999dd.
    If people complain it's your fault

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    Woah why is everything different.

    (But for forum posts I agree ty)

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    Everything that's a link is purple, this is fucking wrong

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    Im in a glass case of emotion here

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    try #ccccd2

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    blurple is my favorite color

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    Good lord put it back to a very light gray or something. This is terrible.

    EDIT: At least on the main thread pages. A page full of blurple is good for no one.

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    Not a fan.

    I mean, artistically, part of the theme should consider color coordination. With Dark primarily being on the shades of greyscale, the sudden introduction of lilac or whatever you wanna call it is an abject contradiction.

    Of course, I also understand that links weren't immediately obvious, especially if tagged down to a shorter word with dangling letters that may have masked the underline. In this case, I would instead propose tweaking whatever needed under the hood to automatically bold links or perhaps increase their font size by 1 or 2. From the looks of it, though, the board code makes no distinction between thread titles or in-post links, which is a problem of its own, imo.

    But yeah, not a fan.

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    Is it possible to make 2 black themes? One the way it was before and the other like this...

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    Already feared something like this might happen when I tinkered with locally changed CSS values in my browser... And I see where the "issue" is, the change was applied to links within the body of the site, aka, all of them.

    A fix would be to change the global link color back to #ffffff and add a custom CSS declaration just for links within a post.
    Code:
    .content a {
        color: #ccccff;
    }
    Mind you, that #ccccff is just another example value, I am no web designer and have no idea about how to properly match colors...

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    Niya; let me help with color matching. WARNING: Make sure your adblocker is on. This is a good site for explaining basic web design, but they have annoying popup ads which the usual adblockers will kill, so if you got your adblocker on you will never see them. Lissa Explains color charts.

    Hope that helps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
    Already feared something like this might happen when I tinkered with locally changed CSS values in my browser... And I see where the "issue" is, the change was applied to links within the body of the site, aka, all of them.

    A fix would be to change the global link color back to #ffffff and add a custom CSS declaration just for links within a post.
    Code:
    .content a {
        color: #ccccff;
    }
    Mind you, that #ccccff is just another example value, I am no web designer and have no idea about how to properly match colors...
    Not sure it looks much better

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    I have a hard time seeing that on black.

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    I'm assuming whoever removed the snow header broke something in the dark theme. Basically everything is jumbled, text is weird sizes, quick reply window is gone, etc..

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    It's the same with the light theme, it needs kicked.

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    can someone fix this wtf

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