Wanted to find staff colour in settings but being American used color and not colour. In checking why it failed noticed the spelling was British. So tried both spellings as a search to see the what happens, sure enough they are different. [image] [image]

[image] No colour here as far as I can see… cooldown minutes after hiding posts. Look at the bolds, we do a fuzzy search. Tagging this staff-experience maybe there are some extra UX tweaks we can make.

[image] EricGT: staff colour in settings AFAIK there isn’t a staff colour setting? Only in the customise > colours where you can change the colour of it?

[image] ondrej: AFAIK there isn’t a staff colour setting? It came from [image] Trust Level Permissions Reference Using Discourse bookmark This reference aims to be a comprehensive list of Discourse features, marked by Trust Level, and including the rele…

Typo @JammyDodger made, he is Brit[ou]ish

FWIW I do use the actual name of the settings when it’s a site_setting, though tend to stick to my natural spellings for general descriptions and conversation. I think I do make more of an effort for category names and descriptions, but that’s about my limit. :slight_smile:

And out (or in… how we see that :smirking_face: ) there is huge amount of us non-native english writers. We finns learn more or less oxfordtype english (RP) in school, but the real using language comes from US tv-series. And in the real-real world we are equally bad at both forms :wink: Meaning tha…

For settings use one spelling for names, e.g. color or colour

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EricGT (EricGT) December 26, 2023, 9:44pm 4

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For settings use one spelling for names, e.g. color or colour

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