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Written by Purple :verified: on 2025-01-04 at 12:54

Holy moly the Mastodon 4.3.x design sucks! I'm currently testing our upgrade on our dev environment, and I'm genuinely shocked how terrible the contrast is!

Why did we ever invent colours if we're just going to use a dark background, with grey icons. To make matters worse, the timeline is now no longer using a slightly lighter grey, so it's even harder to separate the 3 elements (left, middle, right)

[#]mastodon #UI #design

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Written by Purple :verified: on 2025-01-04 at 12:55

For reference, on 4.2.x and prior it looks like this:

Which is a nice use of dark mode, where individual elements are still separated with decent enough contrast

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Written by Purple :verified: on 2025-01-04 at 13:16

Glad I'm not the only one bothered by it though ^^;

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32325

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Written by Purple :verified: on 2025-01-04 at 13:59

A bit of css commit revert and merge later

I think this is a lot better, but I'm not a developer so I can only kinda hope I didn't cripple the CSS in a way that isn't obvious to me now. The console looks fine though, and assets:precompile succeeds.

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Written by groxx on 2025-01-04 at 15:46

@Purple not sure why "affordance" became such a bad word in design, but the entire field seems to believe it's something to be avoided

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