Drive By Cool Reporting

[zvi]

If you don't personally know a cool hunter to talk to about making Dreamwidth better, you can leave a comment here. The cool hunters are interested in:

• Ways you use Dreamwidth that the site wasn't really designed for
• Ways Dreamwidth makes it difficult or tedious to do things you want to do
• Tools you use from outside of Dreamwidth to make things happen on Dreamwidth
• Tools your friends are using on other blogging sites, personal publishing sites, electronic diaries, etc. that you wish we had on Dreamwidth

You don't have to tell cool hunters things, of course. If you have a clear idea of how to make DW better, you're probably better off telling dw_suggestions. But if all you know is that "It's too hard to do X," comment here to tell a cool hunter. We're here to serve as a cool to developer translation service.

Please put a subject on your comment! This makes it much easier for me to properly corral the reports in gmail.

Comments

change color of text in Tropospherical Red scheme

[runpunkrun]

I'm so glad this comm is here, I was wondering where to bring this up.

I use the Tropospherical Red scheme to view entry pages, and I like almost everything about it except the color of the text -- it's light grey and kind of ridiculous, especially for long posts.

I ninja'd together a bookmarklet to make the text black, but it's a mess; I appropriated it from another source and it's way more complicated than it needs to be. What I'd like is for the text in Tropospherical Red to be changed sitewide to black or even dark grey, or to have a script for Stylish and/or Greasemonkey that automatically changes the color when the pages load. It'd really save my eyes.

Re: change color of text in Tropospherical Red scheme

[zvi]

Something like the site scheme is more of a feedback issue, actually. You should submit a support request to the Feedback category or send an e-mail to feedback@dreamwidth.org .

As I recall (but don't quote me on this) at least one high contrast horizontal site scheme was supposed to be in the works, but there was also some question as to how many different site schemes the site is going to support. (Giving more choices actually starts to impede usability, so it's a bad idea to let everyone simply reconfigure the site to their own tastes.)

At the moment, Lynx is a black on white scheme, and you might want to check out Celerity, which has dark brown text on an off-white background.

Re: change color of text in Tropospherical Red scheme

[runpunkrun]

I was just hoping someone could whip up a script so I could change the font color on my end, that way it wouldn't be a usability issue. Is there somewhere else to ask for that?

In the meantime, I'll email feedback.

Re: change color of text in Tropospherical Red scheme

[zvi]

You could ask at getting_started maybe? I don't know if there's a greasemonkey or stylish comm.