Not sure if this is related to the recent DDoS attack, but I have noticed that user mentions look different than they used to. Now if I mention @jomaxro it appears to have a grey font color. Before, it would look like this: 
with black text.
Is this a side effect of the attack, or a feature change I just missed 
?
Not related, it was a recent change made.
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6d6d8842d234ecd1035e91693ee431eb1cb9a400
Ah, thanks. Any particular reason why (that you know of)?
No idea. I’m not a fan of it yet, as I find it harder to find where I am mentioned in a long topic now, but I need to give it more time. The contrast is now horrid for those with eye sight problems.
I tend to agree with you here. Yes, change is hard (for everyone), but I agree that it is tougher to see, and without knowing the reason the change was made it seems like change for the sake of change.
Yes, not everyone has good vision. For me it looks like a grey bar unless I move closer and squint. 
For me it isn’t so hard to read bolded
@codinghorror I find the contrast a bit too soft, can we lighten the gray background a bit?
Or just drop the background altogether?
Actually I think the foreground should be dropped to #646464 which would match the username color used in the top of posts.
Current new combo fails WebAIM: Contrast Checker which is particularly painful on sections of text you need to read.
Many people have crappy monitors that do bad with problem contrast and many people have eyes that can not cope with it.
Probably fine, but #222 was too black.
Having trouble understanding the motivations here too. I’m finding the latest revision harder to read.
Maybe worth a closer look at what Slack does? @mentions that I’m not included on look like normal links. Ones that mention @me or @groups i’m in directly are highlighted in yellow.
@mcwumbly قمت بتعديلها لتطابق نفس لون اسم المستخدم في عنوان المنشور. أعتقد أنها معقولة، ربما يمكننا تجربتها أيضًا بخط عريض للحصول على تطابق كامل.
أعتقد أن تسليط الضوء عندما يتم الإشارة إليك فكرة مثيرة للاهتمام للغاية. الخطوة الأولى هي إضافة الفئة، لكنها أمر معقد بعض الشيء لأننا سنحتاج إلى تشغيل معالج نصوص ماركداون (Markdown) لكل منشور نقوم بعرضه.
من حيث تجربة المستخدم (UX)، أعتقد أنه من المثير للاهتمام أن رابط Contribute > UX يُعتبر “أكثر” أهمية من الإشارة، وهو مجرد ملاحظة.
I kind of like it in bold 1px smaller.
It ties super cleanly with the way we display username in the topic title, so brain goes … ahh this is a username, right away.
@codinghorror should I make this change?
Sure bold would be consistent with category hash so that’s fine.
No? Just a decoratePost callback with this.$('.mention[href="/users/' + username + '"]').addClass('you-mention');
