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Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by bapak »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #2

This is unreadable. Increase the contrast, please... Edit: I may be falsely blaming the contrast, but something about the design is causing me eye strain. Im not sure what. Here is a screenshot how the site looks to me: https://imgur.com/a/LNVCMRc Maybe someone else can figure it out.

There's nothing wrong with the contrast, it's more than 10:1. For reference 4.5:1 is AA and 7:1 is AAA in WCAG

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by mavamaarten »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #2

This is unreadable. Increase the contrast, please... Edit: I may be falsely blaming the contrast, but something about the design is causing me eye strain. Im not sure what. Here is a screenshot how the site looks to me: https://imgur.com/a/LNVCMRc Maybe someone else can figure it out.

It's almost-white light gray on almost black. What are you on about?

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by _Algernon_ »

MrGilbert wrote: post #7
_Algernon_ wrote: post #2

This is unreadable. Increase the contrast, please... Edit: I may be falsely blaming the contrast, but something about the design is causing me eye strain. Im not sure what. Here is a screenshot how the site looks to me: https://imgur.com/a/LNVCMRc Maybe someone else can figure it out.

Maybe there is some technical issue for you regarding the automatic switch between light and dark mode. Under normal circumstances, it is perfectly readable.

I tried both light and dark. Ended up switching to reader mode.

Maybe its the font or something else? Something about the design is causing eye strain at least.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by MrGilbert »

siva7 wrote: post #10

> We have no scheduled meetings, so ramblings are our equivalent of water cooler talk. This is the difference. Most teams have scheduled daily (!) meetings, so such rambling channels often times feel more like another chore and therefore fail because they haven't emerged of a natural need from the team.

Although it really depends on the team's maturity to acknowledge that they are missing social interaction in the first place.

I'd also argue that "scheduled meetings" doesn’t translate to "water cooler talk" automatically. So even if you'd have regular scheduled meetings, you might still crave for some socializing.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by codethief »

siva7 wrote: post #10

> We have no scheduled meetings, so ramblings are our equivalent of water cooler talk. This is the difference. Most teams have scheduled daily (!) meetings, so such rambling channels often times feel more like another chore and therefore fail because they haven't emerged of a natural need from the team.

I have worked for remote companies since covid and even though we have daily meetings, a dedicated space for ramblings actually sounds like a cool idea. We usually try to keep our meetings strictly on-topic.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by madduci »

At work we use Teams and one interesting feature that I use isnky own chat (where inam alone), where in post links that mostly interest me.

Also Signal offers something similar, called "Personal Notes"

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