At current, the background color for the forums appears to be completely white, #FFFFFF. This color is by no means a bad choice and suits the forum page well, however there are certain things that cannot benefit from the brightness of the page.
Examples are:
Horizontal rules
Color Highlights
Block quotes
Preformatted text / code backgrounds.
Simple changes to this could be to darken the color of the examples above. But thinking more than that, in my opinion the entire forums should be just a few shades darker to have a longer forums experience. I personally cannot spend to much time on this site without taking a break due to the intensity of the brightness. I will however take it with a grain of salt. I understand this is probably the way the forums is supposed to look, and changing it could cause some problems with the user-base(E.g. Negative feedback, or further problems could arise that haven’t been accounted for).
Description of Change in Feature:
Changing the color of the Forums to a slightly darker shade of grey (E.g. #EEEEEE, or #F2F2F2) could be beneficial to users that are on the forums for long periods of time. Sparing eyesight and headaches, this could allow further concentration in getting users their information in a more direct manner.
Pros:
Longer consecutive use of the forums for long term users (Major)
Higher quality of posts over lengthy periods of time. (Minor)
Greater post utilization of features. (Minor)
Cons:
Possibility of users being apposed to the change (Major)
Would also need to change the examples in the summary to a darker shade to compliment new forums color. (Minor)
Color schemes around the forums would need to be changed to reflect the new background color. (Minor)
Do you want to see this in CodeCademy?
Yes this would be awesome!
No, I like the way it is!
I really don’t care.
0voters
Additional Remarks:
The Change itself is relatively minor but it could do great things for long term users of the forums. I am sure others also feel similar to myself after hours of answering questions.
Thank you for your consideration.
-Alex
And once I get some more time, I’d be happy to work on your suggestion for Codecademy Redesigned (a browser extension that restyles certain parts of Codecademy) if Codecademy won’t do it themselves
@lolman So you want block quotes, @mentions, and code segments all to be a little darker? I’ll see what I can do as soon as I can (probably sometime Monday), then screenshot it & show you
Just as long as it’s clearly visible against the background. The biggest problem I feel after using the forums so much is that the break lines and back-ticks aren’t clearly definable against the back-ground color. So as long as that’s taken into account while you’re revamping the forums I’m not picky as to what it looks like
That looks good. The back-ticks are a little awkward simply due to being a highlight instead of a backdrop like the quotes and such. I’m not sure there’s anything you need to do with that to be honest. If you could also make the Horizontal Rule just a little bit bigger or darker that helps also, just because it blends into the background just a little bit. Thank you for taking my request so seriously!
