Hi!
I don’t see any obvious other button that shares this design choice. Also the text color has no transition so it doesn’t look very good.
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What theme are you using? I have effects on all buttons on Meta branded and Horizon.
@Canapin What theme is this? I cannot seem to see the same effect on Meta Branded or Foundation.
(@HAWK no idea how I missed that even after reading your post twice. Didn’t wake up fully I guess…)
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It is your theme; the side menu options on your Discourse instance shows the same behaviour.
BTW. Nice to see your unicyclist community is thriving.
Bryan (EndeavourOS)
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Hi, sorry I probably wasn’t clear. I’m talking about the animated background transition, which I don’t see on any other button.
I’m using Foundation. It also happens on Meta Branded, but not on Horizon.
Oh, maybe it’s so subtle that I missed it. I have rubbish eyes. Does it fade in while the others are flat?
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The transition is due to us making these action items slightly transparent when not hovered. This is to not take away focus on the content itself.
It could possibly be time to get rid of this, and just use lighter colors here rather than opacity settings.
Ohh I see, actually we don’t need the background transition property here anyway… I think this was an old remnant from when the reply button had a background color by default?
The opacity can stay for the post hover making the reply button darker, it doesn’t get in the way here.
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I’m not sure I understand so just in case my question can be written as “why is the reply button animated on hover” when no other buttons seemingly are? Plus, only the background is animated on hover, not the text, which looks weird.
It comes from the .fade-out class that overrides the default transition (which is set to none).
edit: well kris answered while I was typing. Thanks! 
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I’ve read the fix and it fixes the text not having the fade animation, but I’m still not sure I get it.
My main question isn’t answered unless I’m missing something: why is this button animated with the transition property when others buttons aren’t?
If this reply button is animated on hover purposely, then OK! 
It looks a bit weird to me because it seems to be the only animated button on hover. I just thought it was something that was supposed to be removed but overlooked 
“fade-out” class is only added to reply button with a label. If I’m not wrong, I think Canapin asks whether this inconsistency is intentional comparing to others buttons.
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This is it. Thanks for narrowing the point I’m raising!
It’s to draw more attention to the reply button on the post you’re hovering, it’s a very old behavior that I think used to be more dramatic and applied to all controls way back in the 1.0 days.
Up for debate whether we need it at all anymore, but I like the subtle little differentiation.
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