Quick question, I’m looking to make an Mbin account and just wanted to ask if there is any lemmy.ml type of situation to be aware of.

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    4·
    2 months ago

    Have to say, I get that this is unpaid and great volunteering, but that website has pretty bad contrast. Sorry.

    • jwr1@kbin.earth
      11·
      2 months ago

      I’m the one who made the website. Do you think if we just brightened the outlines around the ui elements that that would help with the contrast?

      To me, it looks fine, but if changing something made it better for other people, I’m all for it.

      • aasatru@kbin.earth
        5·
        2 months ago

        I feel like dark theme is often tricky on different monitors - If the font is too heavy it’ll look awful, if it’s too light it might look bad on low resolution displays. Combined with different colour contrasts on different screens, and it gets really difficult to know what people will end up seeing.

        The headline - “MBIN SERVERS” - looks great on my 4K monitor, but slightly less good on a worse one. The same goes for the text stating that “Also view servers on FediDB and Fediverse Observer”, but it’s not so bad for the white text. The hyperlinks, however, might suffer from a lack of contrast with the background (a slightly too dark blue) combined with very thin text on low resolution monitors.

        I guess brighter hyperlinks could also benefit the names of instances.

        It’s not something I ever noticed myself when using the site, but keeping it in the back of my head while looking at it I can see why some might have some problems with it. :)

        • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
          5·
          2 months ago

          yeh I agree, the hyperlinks needs more contrast. And also on the homepage the sub-title “A federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform (By the community, for the community)”, can also have more contrast.

          I also believe the text (especially headings maybe) can use a more bolder text. @jwr1@kbin.earth Try to set font-weight of 400 on the .font-extralight CSS class instead of 200.

          @Aatube@kbin.melroy.org if you want to share your problems in more details, please help us out you can join the issue chat on Matrix if you like. And ideally share some screenshots if that would help to explain the problem. Another approach is to create an issue at GitHub (which does require a GitHub account): https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin-website/issues/new

          Or explain the situation here in this thread in more detail is also possible, but that is up to you.