New "Blurple" in UI still very unpleasant
Hey Discord!
To make it short: I can't get used to the new color. Fortunately I'm not one of the (apparently many!) users who even get headaches or other physical problems from seeing it, but it makes concentrating on what matters, talking in our communities, a whole lot harder.
The new "Blurple" is the most problematic change. Please consider adding an option to customize colors or even simply one to revert to old, true Blurple. I do not want to use client modifications as they are against TOS and the safety of my Discord account is very important to me as I run a large community.
About the rebrand as a whole - I actually really love the new logo and I believe you should have the freedom to do whatever you like with your brand identity - heck, if you wanted to use #0000FF as your "signature" color - feel free to do so. I personally loved Wumpus and the little gaming references - really felt at home. If you now want to appeal to a new target audience (while arguably doing less so to your core user base), so be it. But consider letting people keep the part of the Discord they look at every day look the same as they have come to love over all these years.
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Let me add that I believe from an UI design perspective, new Blurple is perfectly fine for Light mode. It's just Dark mode, where the saturation creates an extreme contrast and a different accent color (old Blurple was perfect) are in order. Considering the majority of users love the Dark theme (remember you even deleted light theme as an april fools joke two years ago!), when selecting a color, it should be pleasant to look at on both themes :)
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light mode.... I never used the light mode _because_ white light gives me headaches, but now thanks to discord that's also started happening with the blue light, so thanks a lot for a brand new headache trigger :/
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