I’d like to share some feedback with you around the new (to me) ‘Latest’ page that appeared when I upgraded my Discourse recently to v2.2.0.beta5 +132
When using the Dark theme, unread topics are displayed in a white colour and topics which have been read are displayed in a shade of grey. This is fine, makes perfect logical sense.
What isn’t so logical though is the Category names being displayed in white for topics which have been read.
In the above example, for topics which have been read I find my eye being drawn more to the brighter white text of the category name, rather than the topic title. The category name jumps out a lot.
What are people’s thoughts on changing the category names to also be displayed in grey for topics which have been read?
Or maybe just changing the category names to be grey all the time, regardless of read-state?
This is easy for logged-in users because we track read status and apply a .visited class.
We tried this and discovered that it isn’t achievable for users who are logged out, because we rely on the :visited pseudo class on links to make them lighter. Since the category is a separate link we can’t also apply the style based on the :visited pseudo there.
This was our next thought too, we made category names a little less prominent already (dark grey instead of black), it’s subtle on the light theme and seems even harder to notice on dark themes (I can maybe adjust it a little there).
