Tangentially related, but on our slack this morning everyone is griping about the updated blue text color on repo pages at Github. It's pretty ugly.
The merge request buttons/general purple color also pops quite a bit more today.
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I too thought I was going crazy when I noticed it this morning... Funny, but that shade (or one very much like it) is forever etched into my brain as "porn blue" thanks to a k10k issue back in the day when the internet was still referred to as the information super highway and nobody knew what we were doing. Here's an excerpt from the first "lesson": You must never use this colour. You can like it as much as you want…
What is the porn color? I don't understand the reference. What makes it "the porn color"? Aren't links blue (#0000ff) by default?
I believe that's the reference right there. Porn sites, along with most other sites, were usually not quite as spiffy as they are these days. Aside from some creative hot spots that really overdid it with the GIFs (geocities 4 life!) most sites were typically just browser defaults with perhaps some changes to background colors, maybe add a nifty tiled background image and such. Web design (not to mention development) was quite different back in the late nineties, early naughts, than what it's like now – the default blue link color was everywhere.
This whole issue is effectively a sarcastic response to that lack of design, and referring to the default blue as "the porn color" I read to mean "don't be cheap and stick with the defaults; don't be a porn site."
The joke doesn't age very well, but it was really funny back then.
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#43I would really just love to be able to group my repositories. Either logically in folders, or in another structure that cleans everything up. Tags help, but it is not enough. I am happy that they continue to add features like this, but I feel like some of the more common wishlist items are not being addressed.
I never really thought about it but grouping by tags would be a good thing. Once you get over 10-15 repos it gets much harder to find stuff.
the new "topics" feature is basically just tags as far as i can tell.
you can use the "user:" search operator + the name of the topic to filter your repos and then just bookmark the searches that youll be using often. its better than nothing for now
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#44Tangentially related, but on our slack this morning everyone is griping about the updated blue text color on repo pages at Github. It's pretty ugly.
I too thought I was going crazy when I noticed it this morning... Funny, but that shade (or one very much like it) is forever etched into my brain as "porn blue" thanks to a k10k issue back in the day when the internet was still referred to as the information super highway and nobody knew what we were doing. Here's an excerpt from the first "lesson": You must never use this colour. You can like it as much as you want…
AKA "Blueprint blue," source of the term "blue movie" and "working blue."
Re: Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com
#45Tangentially related, but on our slack this morning everyone is griping about the updated blue text color on repo pages at Github. It's pretty ugly.
I don't share the disgruntled feeling toward the color.
The new color is #0366D6, while the old color is #7FA5CF. The new blue color is far more saturated and is much less light, but is actually still a pretty big step down from ultra-hard blue #0000FF. IMO, it's much more readable than the previous blue and stands out nicely.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I too thought I was going crazy when I noticed it this morning... Funny, but that shade (or one very much like it) is forever etched into my brain as "porn blue" thanks to a k10k issue back in the day when the internet was still referred to as the information super highway and nobody knew what we were doing. Here's an excerpt from the first "lesson": You must never use this colour. You can like it as much as you want…
What is the porn color? I don't understand the reference. What makes it "the porn color"? Aren't links blue (#0000ff) by default?
It's "blueprint blue" - a reference to the cheap printing process used to make the posters for pornographic films, and also the reason they got the nickname "blue movies."
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This is for colourblind people.
Serious question: How does making something WAY MORE GREEN make things more visible for people who CAN'T SEE GREEN?
Upvoted because this is a legitimate question.
I'm slightly grey-green colorblind, and if you make text standard CSS green (#008000) I sometimes have trouble telling that it's actually green and not dark grey. If you make it just a little more green (say #00A000) it's much easier for me to see.
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#48Tangentially related, but on our slack this morning everyone is griping about the updated blue text color on repo pages at Github. It's pretty ugly.
I don't share the disgruntled feeling toward the color. The new color is #0366D6, while the old color is #7FA5CF. The new blue color is far more saturated and is much less light, but is actually still a pretty big step down from ultra-hard blue #0000FF. IMO, it's much more readable than the previous blue and stands out nicely.
Exactly. The 0366D6 against the hover background of f6f8fa provides a 5:1 contrast versus the old 2:1 contrast.
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What is the porn color? I don't understand the reference. What makes it "the porn color"? Aren't links blue (#0000ff) by default?
It's "blueprint blue" - a reference to the cheap printing process used to make the posters for pornographic films, and also the reason they got the nickname "blue movies."
Today I learned – thanks!
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Still doesn't make it look good. If thats an issue they could always have an optional setting to enable colorblind mode.
I think we should give it a few months to see if the fact that it doesn't look good is inherent to the color or just because we've become accustomed to it looking one way for so long. I can't count the number of interface redesigns I've seen in services I used that I hated at first and now I look back at the old design and can't fathom how I ever thought it was better. And if colorblind people aren't inconvenienced (…
Fair enough.
Side note: I'm surprised there isn't a specific header browsers could send for something like colorblindness. That would allow sites to react to that header and serve up a different stylesheet.