In dark mode am having an issue with quotes and posted links to public topics. [Screenshot_20211028-184012] I have tried to search for which color setting will let me fix this. However seem to be having difficulty defining a search term to find info. Quotes and links in public categories seem t…

Sorry, what are you reporting? That looks normal to me. Individual personal message posts are now colored in “your” color if you are the author of the specific post in the PM. Like so: I wrote the first post ← someone replies someone replies I reply ← someone replies I reply ← etc.

If you look at the pic. In this case the linked topic preview has grey on drk grey background. Making the text unreadable. The same issue in quoted text in pm [Screenshot_20211028-184012~2] Vs public topic [Screenshot_20211028-204557] Where you can read the quoted text

Okay thank you. My apologies. This also affects linked posts.

Looks like a bug on your theme. Contrast values for text on user own posts on default Dark Mode theme [image] Contrast values for quoted text on user own posts on default Dark Mode theme [image]

That is in the default dark theme. Where do I adjust those values?

First right click and inspect the affected text and check where the background and text color are coming from.

Quoted text in PMs is unreadable on the dark theme

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 29, 2021, 12:13am 4

I see, I have updated the title of your topic to make it more understandable. Not sure if this is theme-specific or not.

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Quoted text in PMs is unreadable on the dark theme

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