# Activity cold-post monitors hard to see
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-cold-post-monitors-hard-to-see/38669
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [2016年一月29日 01:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-cold-post-monitors-hard-to-see/38669 "2016-01-29T01:47:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [2016年一月29日 01:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-cold-post-monitors-hard-to-see/38669/1 "2016-01-29T01:47:20Z")
Hey,
A bit of feedback from using discourse a little more – I’m really enjoying the heat monitors for high like ratios and view at a glance colour schemes. They are also quite easy on the eyes at a glance.
I was going to suggest or even PR a similar color indicator for posts that have been necro’d so that resurrected posts that filter back to the top can be easily seen at a glance as well. Then I noticed that this feature already exists, and I felt foolish.
I’ve updated it in my discourse instance and it is much easier to distinguish.
```plaintext
body .coldmap-high {
color: #04C2BF !important;
}
body .coldmap-med {
color: #37BFBD !important;
}
body .coldmap-low {
color: #77BFBE !important;
}
```
Wondering what you guys think about possibly adding something similar as well in core. It is much easier to at a glance catch up and miss old topics that have been updated. I realize you don’t want to drag too much attention/highlight to an old post, but as it stands it’s really difficult to see much distinction at a glance in vanilla.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年一月29日 04:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-cold-post-monitors-hard-to-see/38669/2 "2016-01-29T04:07:18Z")
Two sets of colors is too much IMO. There was a ton of discussion about this, feel free to dig up that topic.
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### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [2016年一月29日 18:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-cold-post-monitors-hard-to-see/38669/3 "2016-01-29T18:11:49Z")
Whoops, sorry for bugging you about it then – I didn’t see the previous topic before. I’ll shut up about it now, but I still think it’s important feedback for your team, regardless of your decision: It looks OK on my macbook 13" when I checked last night, but I can confirm that it is very difficult to see on a Dell Latitude E7440 Ultrabook screen.
Reminds me of the [diablo 3 art controversy.](http://www.diablowiki.net/Art_Controversy) 😉
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [2016年一月30日 12:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-cold-post-monitors-hard-to-see/38669/4 "2016-01-30T12:20:36Z")
No worries, hearing about actual use cases like these is useful feedback. “Coldmapping” as we called it was a _whole thing_ 😛 Here’s some good weekend reading if you’re interested:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternative-to-blue-colors-for-coldmapping/18873](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternative-to-blue-colors-for-coldmapping/18873)
It’s interesting to see coloured coldmapping making a comeback in a dark theme though. The “clown vomit” factor (search for it) isn’t nearly as strong here.