It’s been a week - toggle feature
It’s pretty much been a week since the new rebrand was launched and support and social media reps keep telling us to write here in this forum, fill out a survey and that “accessibility is one of our greatest concerns” (even though all of this is also hard to look at and use for the same color problem as the app itself)
I dont understand how you can continuously lie to everyone that it’s a big concern for you when you continue to actively ignore hundreds of posts and complaints about accessibility on every platform including this forum, twitter, reddit, and tiktok.
I used to use discord a lot, I have active servers I own as well as developing my own bot and I have barely been on or talked to my friends since the update because it gives me a lasting migraine within a few minutes of just looking in the app wether on mobile or desktop.
Not only are so many of us fighting for this accessibility we have to also constantly put ourself in uncomfortable situations if we even try to talk about it on social media. Before you know it people who aren’t affected come and attack people trying to genuinely explain why they can’t even use the app anymore and discord chooses to respond to those people instead while continually ignoring us.
Further more, you ban and don’t allow the use of modifying the program. So if people want to modify it themselves you can potentially ban them for it.
Adding the old blurple back as a color scheme option along side the new one, and maybe even one in between, would solve the biggest issue at hand.
Let’s be honest, fixing a hexcode to change a color isn’t something challenging, yet no action has been taken nor as a proper response been published by the company.
Do better discord.
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Have you tried dark mode? I find it much less eyestrain inducing than the white-based theme.
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Nantes go troll elsewhere
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This really wouldn't be such a big problem if we were allowed to modify it ourselves. I see a lot of people suggesting dark mode, but i already use dark mode. The contrast between how saturated the new blurple is and the less saturated grey makes it just as bad as light mode now. Really hoping the end result of all this will be discord giving us the ability to choose accent colors on our client, doesn't even need to be full on themes.
Here's to hoping that discord doesn't take too much longer to give us a response, maybe within the next week or two. It's one thing if it was simply not enjoying a new design, but this is about accessibility. Myself and a few friends haven't been able to use the app much because of it.
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Nantes I only use darkmode, it *hurts* just as bad. The blurple is just too vibrant and jarring, and contrasts too much with the background. I’m honestly surprised people found fault with the old colors I thought they were fine and this update hurts to look at, even with darkmode.
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@Owl128 I'm confused. They only changed the logo and branding outside the app, there were no changes to the contrast in the UI itself when you're using the app. The colors within the app are still the same as they were for at least a year, at least on my device after updating it to the latest version 74.10. Even the Discord logo that shows up as the app is loading up, which I fully expected to change to the new Clyde design with the burple background, is still the same old chat bubble with the old Clyde inside it. Where is the burple in-app?
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