Based on your feedback & bug reports, I’ve made some changes to the new site design, including a less-dark dark mode and a light/dark mode toggle (just below the right sidebar menu). More to come!
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Discussion 15 comments
That dark mode icon… most impressive.
It's no moon, that's for sure.
You almost could have used the Jedi and Sith logos, Jason.
* toggles *
tysm for the dark mode toggle! (and as Enrique pointed out, the dark mode icon is *kisses fingers icon*)
I love seeing new dots every time I load the site btw: seeing a particularly harmonious combination is like hearing the coin sound in Mario. You may have created a gamified logo.
The other day I saw a color combination that really really worked and I felt sad that it was likely the only time I'd see that combo for the rest of my life. Some consolation that it was only true for that particular order, so maybe I'll see that combo again, ordered differently.
The less-dark dark mode is perfect.
Agreed.
Yep. Now that the dark mode is less dark, I won't need to use the toggle. (But appreciate that it's there)
I like the redesign quite a lot - esp. the updated font, but miss the whitespace around the text. I used the Styler Chrome plugin to fix it for myself, fairly simple to do:
.big-hug .grid-container {
max-width: none;
}
.big-hug #content-container {
max-width: 700px;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 100%;
}
Perfect - Thanks Jason!
Definitely falling in the minority here, but the design is borked in a few ways on Firefox 😔
The toggle was going to really be my only request!
Outside of that, if there were a way to be notified that someone has replied to your comment, I'd love something like that. Though I have no idea if that would be hard to implement!
I love where the site is going, JK!
Oh man, I didn't realize how badly I wanted a less-dark dark mode until it arrived. Well done.
FWIW I vastly prefer looking at the site on my phone than my laptop now... I don't know why I like the logo at the top so much more, but the side logo is taking me so long to get used to. I'm sure I'm just used to it from the old site.
I've noticed that the "refresh" link at the top always says 1 new post now, no matter many new posts there are since the last page load. Previously it seemed accurate. (this is on Mac/Safari)
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