LOL Colors: Curated Color Palettes

This triggers me. Besides having no explanation whatsoever, none of these palettes are usable for similar roles. So if you are able to pick a palette that suits your needs, it means you are able to understand what you need from your palette. If it's the case, it is highly likely that you can generate a better palette yourself.

Do a quick test: take a screenshot of the site, then completely desaturate the image. The values are all over the place, which means you can't use any of these interchangeably.

In my latex template, there are lines like: \definecolor{Main}{RGB}{20,189,189}, secondary and so on. So the rest of the template use the main color, the secondary, the accented one, etc, and by just changing the lines by another palette built around the same principles you get another look completely for free.

A small quirk/usability issue that I noticed was regarding how the favs/hearts/likes feature works. I just clicked the top one and the counter increments but there's no indication that I liked it and there's no way for me to deselect/unlike it. It looks like I can keep incrementing it.

Funnily enough, as far as I've ever been able to tell, the phrase "LOL colours" would mean "these colours are stupid".

(Of course, as I no longer 14 years old, who can say for sure that I've inferred correctly? And I couldn't figure out the right search terms for urbandictionary, which is ordinarily helpful for this sort of question. But I imagine it's somewhat related to this: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol+theory)

This seems like a fun project and it is inspiring that the author challenged himself to make it, it's very commendable and something I was planning on doing myself when I get some free time.

What follows is a tangentially related rant, so feel free to skip it if you don't care about WordPress.

I watched the video[vid] and I was shocked when he got to he WordPress-vs-Rails debate. I'll ignore the fact that both of these are arguably overkill for this and also might have slowed down the development, because the overhead of both is pretty big for such a small project.

Putting that aside though, I'd like to address how WordPress has become abused over the year. People use WordPress for so many things that they shouldn't.

WordPress is great for being a blogging engine, or maybe even a news portal, but its oriented towards textual content, and it excels at that like no other engine out there; its in its name, even—WordPress! However, I've seen so many websites built in WordPress that don't actually use this feature: restaurants, apartment rentals and hotels, web shops, comics[comic], galleries, company websites (with no new/updates/blog section at all, it's literally a static website), etc.

There's a plethora of plugins for it too, which would be good, except people use these plugins to create websites with 0 posts, and everything on the WordPress site is made by that plugin. What is worse, often time these plugins don't work too well to begin with, but that's not even relevant. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a plugin for controlling an alien thermonuclear reactor somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy in Sirius's solar system.

[vid]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DexyfHomC4Q

[comic]: Although, even though comics are mostly graphic contents, they are relatively often updated content, so it isn't as bad as all the other examples I encountered.