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New UI Themes Added (High-Contrast/Visually Impaired)

Hi all!

Just wanted to put out there for feedback that we've added the RBlind set of themes (credit to rblind.com for making them available).

Known bugs (incompatibilities on our end, nothing to do with the theme creators):

  • usernames are too small
  • Some button colors are hardcoded to magenta
  • Username/pronouns preview is borked on light theme
  • Featured posts box is slightly misaligned compared to the XL up/downvote buttons
  • I haven't tried it on mobile

Try it out under the Themes drop-down on https://hexbear.net/settings !

Bruja [she/her, love/loves] - 8mon

Trying it out on mobile, there are additional box misalignments under comments.

With one zoom-in the sidebar disappears and a more mobile version pops up and is nice. The magenta I’m still a fan of but can see where others would disagree. The blue links look okay but so used to the darkly theme green, can there be an alternative option with green links around the darkly shade, maybe with a tweak for contrast?

The thicker deep-nesting columns on hex work better than on rblind for me. The thin ones don’t really get bigger compared to other elements and it’s more difficult to follow, but is easier here.

Edit: One more thing, the larger boxes really help with touching things like upbeats on mobile, fewer mis-taps.

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Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided] - 8mon

this (or something done at the same time?) introduced a layout bug for me on some page loads, might be a race condition because it's not every time and refreshing the bugged page fixes it everything is too big

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BoarAvoir [they/them] - 8mon

Hmm... Has it happened on the regular themes or just Rblind? The only other thing touched at the same time was the warrant canary, I believe, but I can look into it.

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Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided] - 8mon

i think i've only ever been on the default theme. inconsistent problems are fun.

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