Zydrolic wrote:

WONGMY wrote:

#TeamBlue, it's just WAY too iconic to leave.
Oh yeah, and other colours would be fine too.

I guess I'll link it. There is a reason why the blue interface is gone: https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/User:Jvvg/Essays/Accessibility_preempts_aesthetics
I get that it's iconic and all, but personally I've seen the interface for 1 year and 8 months (Again, I'm an alt. My main is in plain sight in my signature as well.) and I'm personally not really caring about this change.
I also support this suggestion, simply just I cannot understand why people are mad on the change. Iconic, sure. But there's still alot to consider.
They get sued or they try their best to avoid that situation, PERIOD.
No if-s, no else-s.
I'm just pointing this out as people really just get mad without seeing why they did it in the first place.

WallydogChoppychop wrote:

Pretty sure all they need to do is to put in some java which changes the CSS

colinmacc wrote:

Zydrolic wrote:

WONGMY wrote:

#TeamBlue, it's just WAY too iconic to leave.
Oh yeah, and other colours would be fine too.

I guess I'll link it. There is a reason why the blue interface is gone: https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/User:Jvvg/Essays/Accessibility_preempts_aesthetics
I get that it's iconic and all, but personally I've seen the interface for 1 year and 8 months (Again, I'm an alt. My main is in plain sight in my signature as well.) and I'm personally not really caring about this change.
I also support this suggestion, simply just I cannot understand why people are mad on the change. Iconic, sure. But there's still alot to consider.
They get sued or they try their best to avoid that situation, PERIOD.
No if-s, no else-s.
I'm just pointing this out as people really just get mad without seeing why they did it in the first place.

It seems that blue is fine for other huge platforms, such as facebook, twitter, outlook, etc.

I don't understand why you think blue is not OK for Scratch. Are they all going to get sued too?

The best solution obviously is to make it optional.

Zydrolic wrote:

colinmacc wrote:

Zydrolic wrote:

WONGMY wrote:

#TeamBlue, it's just WAY too iconic to leave.
Oh yeah, and other colours would be fine too.

I guess I'll link it. There is a reason why the blue interface is gone: https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/User:Jvvg/Essays/Accessibility_preempts_aesthetics
I get that it's iconic and all, but personally I've seen the interface for 1 year and 8 months (Again, I'm an alt. My main is in plain sight in my signature as well.) and I'm personally not really caring about this change.
I also support this suggestion, simply just I cannot understand why people are mad on the change. Iconic, sure. But there's still alot to consider.
They get sued or they try their best to avoid that situation, PERIOD.
No if-s, no else-s.
I'm just pointing this out as people really just get mad without seeing why they did it in the first place.

It seems that blue is fine for other huge platforms, such as facebook, twitter, outlook, etc.

I don't understand why you think blue is not OK for Scratch. Are they all going to get sued too?

The best solution obviously is to make it optional.

Not saying blue is not alright for Scratch. I infact didn't say it in my sentences. I have zero problem with it, and never said it isn't alright for Scratch. Simply pointing the fact that either they get sued without the attempt of staying on a small brick considering their limited resources. I myself was abit mad when I first heard the change, but then realized jvvg's essay and just decided to go with it, and I still am.
Difference with those platforms is that they aren't for education, Scratch is. Which is what this law mentions if you look at it's wikipedia page.
I also never mentioned I liked the purple more.
People are adding a purple shade over their profiles for the memes.

colinmacc wrote:

~gearra~

There is no mention of education on this site.. https://www.ada.gov/resources/web-guidance/

banana439monkey wrote:

Okay, this should be implemented when the skin is pushed to the whole site, but here are a few reasons why this should happen:

Scratch Wiki:
The wiki has it. Why shouldn't we have it?

A nice feature:
It gives users the freedom to break free from the blue and use a colour they may prefer

Simple:
It's somewhat simple. All you need to do is have a box requesting a colour code, or a colour name and it inputs it into a variable. That then extracts to the navigation bar and text colour.

Okay, but what if someone's set it to light grey, or white?
Then the site would automatically notice and change the text colour and colour of the messages and my stuff buttons on the navigation bar to black.

What about the default colour? What would it be?
Good question there. It would be the colour we have now. #855cd6 - purple. The text would automatically be in this text box.

What if a user is logged out?
It works the same as the wiki. You can't change it when logged out.

Use extensions!!!
Okay, there are people who are lazy in this world. Aside from being lazy, those extensions are only local, they don't apply to everywhere. I want to see this being quick and simple to set. I want to be able to log into a library all the way over in London (I live in the West Midlands) and still immediately see Scratch in dark theme as soon as I log into it. No tooling around or anything. Long story stort, I'm a productivity guy. When doing things, I find the quickest way to do it to save time, because it matters!

Lemme elaborate even more:
An option in account settings to change the skin's colour. This text box's contents, when applied will be imported into a variable and the text colour and navigation bar would change to that colour. This text box should also be accompanied by a colour picker that includes the full sRGB colour spectrum (thanks kenny2scratch for the idea). A list of pre-sets could be given for the user to click on, in order for that user to select a colour of their choice (although the comprehensive sRGB colour picker should absolutely still be present; thanks Vetzlan for the idea).That's pretty simple, right? Right so far. On top of that, though another suggestion, it's still concerning the skin itself. Here's an example screenshot of the homepage with another colour:

Anyway, here's my other idea. Dark theme. In account settings, there would be an option to switch to and from dark theme and light theme. Here's a screenshot of dark theme:

Here's a guide of the colours used:
Non-links/navigation bar links: #ffffff
Section headers: #24292e then #000000
Links: default
Background/section backgrounds/footer: #24292e

It also may be an idea to introduce this to the editor as well, since it's as (if not more) important as the website itself. The whole theme would synchronise across the whole site including the editor.

If you do get the option to actually log into the 3.0 offline editor (which would be cool), it would be cool to synchronise this idea to there.

Thoughts?

Banana

VicvillionFermany wrote:

I agree there should be a setting
———————————————-
Cleared by FuN

ToastersUnited wrote:

I think we could get used to the purple, i actually do find it much easier to see things on the site and the claustrophobic-type affect was probably phsychological. It really helps me to see links (mainly on the forums) and other things on the 2.0 sites which were previously light blue blobs

colinmacc wrote:

The dark blue is completely accessible and much smarter.

Milkysplash wrote:

NightmareGaze wrote:

. They could've easily implemented color switch mode while they were at it, as it's not difficult to code.

This.
This makes me feel angry.
If they could implement a button to change it, why not put it in the nav bar? Default off, but if you need it on, put it on.
This is about the simplest solo union I can come to.

Also I just don’t think the ST has been transparent enough with the update. We didn’t have a lot of input on it as the community and we only ever get to make suggestions AFTER the site has been implemented- of course more code would be required but beta-testing new features such as this could be done on an optional basis in a place where it’s quite visible - ScratchLab seems all but been forgotten. Of course this will require more code. But this will make it easier / more transparent for the wider community.

alphabetlorefan2003 wrote:

Also, no support for any color but the original blue

funmuz wrote:

Milkysplash wrote:

NightmareGaze wrote:

. They could've easily implemented color switch mode while they were at it, as it's not difficult to code.

This.
This makes me feel angry.
If they could implement a button to change it, why not put it in the nav bar? Default off, but if you need it on, put it on.
This is about the simplest solo union I can come to.

Also I just don’t think the ST has been transparent enough with the update. We didn’t have a lot of input on it as the community and we only ever get to make suggestions AFTER the site has been implemented- of course more code would be required but beta-testing new features such as this could be done on an optional basis in a place where it’s quite visible - ScratchLab seems all but been forgotten. Of course this will require more code. But this will make it easier / more transparent for the wider community.

I did a little googling, and it looks like the ST has been alerting about this change since over 5 years ago.
https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/279211/

sdjgkdsfgjdfgjfd wrote:

Does anyone notice the follow discussion button got into gray? If you're following it, click the “Unfollow Discussion” button and you'll see the button's gray instead of blue or purple.