New branding is harmful – Discord, don't treat this as another change you can wait for people to adjust to.
Honestly, I don't care about the new logo. I don't particularly like it, and the logo's font looks like a piece of kids educational software, but whatever, most people won't see that regularly.
What's not at all okay is this switch in colours and in-app fonts. Personally, I'm not drastically affected– I think the colours look worse, but they aren't harming me. However, there is ample evidence, pages and pages and pages of it on this very forum, that many people are physically harmed by your change in branding. That is not a thing that you can or should ignore, Discord. I understand that maybe you will, and that is deeply unfortunate, but I am throwing my hat in the ring with this post to keep the pressure up.
You may be waiting for this storm of negative comments to blow over, and to be able to use that as proof that people were just being resistant to change. The issue, however, as many other people before me have stated, is that this change runs deeper than that. You are harming colourblind people, people with sensory issues, other disabled people, and also handing out eye strain left and right.
I have seen the feedback on this issue flood in for the past several days, a lot of it, but it's been slowing down a little. I'm making this post, as I said, to prevent this issue from being ignored. If we keep making noise, well, I can't say Discord will have to listen– but the longer we talk about it, the bigger of an issue it gets. Don't let up, everyone reading this, and Discord, please truly put yourself in the shoes of your countless users who are affected by your new colour scheme. You are aware of the issue– please fix it. Many other people have already offered excellent solutions.
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THANK YOU
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Just chiming in to say that's not an exaggeration - seeing that hideously saturated blue plastered over the entire screen is so painful to watch I need to close or avert my eyes. Deleted the iOS app until the change is reverted and am using the web interface with the old colors for now.
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This, honestly. I've used discord since it came out. And I never got headaches using it before this. But since they have changed the colors I've barely used discord due to the eyestrain. It makes it impossible to focus on other parts of the screen for me, and it gives me headaches. It's sad that they haven't listened for years when we say we want themes, I get BD exists but that is against ToS. Either revert to old colors, add themes, or people are gonna stop using discord. It's that simple.
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I am Autistic, and I have visual processing and other sensory issues. I don't know how many of these threads I've chimed in on. I keep getting told I should just adjust my monitor or use a third party client. Like... what? How is that an option?! They made the client hostile to me! It hurts!
And you're telling me my options are to either just... not use it, or use a TOS breaking 3rd party app to get my color sensitivity options. The hell is that?
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You'd think if they actually had people with those issues as part of the team, they'd actually listen to them, right?
Also Tumblr and Ravelry went through this exact same scenario just last year when they upped the saturation on their layouts, Discord could have saved themselves a lot of trouble if they just learned from others mistakes - high saturation causes eyestrain - people getting sore eyes and headaches are not going to continue using an app that hurts them to read.
And believe me there are a lot of people with pre-existing conditions that are being affected by this, not to mention many more that might be fine right now, but the extra strain can and will take it's toll. Given how much time we look at screens these days, a low strain - visually accessible design should be a top priority for any app that wants to keep users, especially a text and communication app8
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