a) Thanks for this post, I would never have noticed that the design was intended to be quite nice ⊠and I would completely miss the âEarth with ominous red glowâ on https://ââifanyonebuildsit.com without reading this đ±
b) I bet you didnât admire the beautiful design when trying to enjoy your morning coffee with the sun behind your back on a 10yo 4K monitor after a Win11 laptop refused to recognize that it supports 10bpc so it only uses 8bpc, in Firefox (that still doesnât support gradient dithering), after some jerk forced dark mode on your favorite morning-news-before-work site that usually respects your OS settings (light mode during the day, dark before sleep) and they also removed the usual menu option to toggle it back, so you had to lean around the reflections to spot the subtle X button...
I can only give you my word that the terrible purple hues from my reading-warm color settings looked nothing like a sunset (and nothing like the intended indigo if I can judge the color from how it looks today on an iPad and/âor Android, though they both only have sRGB displays and not showing real indigo hues like a rainbow or summer-night sky), and that I didnât even notice the subtle scroll animations because I didnât scroll anything... ...but feel free to judge the gradient banding for yourself:
Hopefully this comment is a useful data point when deciding to âdo more cool things with the frontpage for other things in the futureâ ;)
a) Thanks for this post, I would never have noticed that the design was intended to be quite nice ⊠and I would completely miss the âEarth with ominous red glowâ on https://ââifanyonebuildsit.com without reading this đ±
b) I bet you didnât admire the beautiful design when trying to enjoy your morning coffee with the sun behind your back on a 10yo 4K monitor after a Win11 laptop refused to recognize that it supports 10bpc so it only uses 8bpc, in Firefox (that still doesnât support gradient dithering), after some jerk forced dark mode on your favorite morning-news-before-work site that usually respects your OS settings (light mode during the day, dark before sleep) and they also removed the usual menu option to toggle it back, so you had to lean around the reflections to spot the subtle X button...
I can only give you my word that the terrible purple hues from my reading-warm color settings looked nothing like a sunset (and nothing like the intended indigo if I can judge the color from how it looks today on an iPad and/âor Android, though they both only have sRGB displays and not showing real indigo hues like a rainbow or summer-night sky), and that I didnât even notice the subtle scroll animations because I didnât scroll anything...
...but feel free to judge the gradient banding for yourself:
Hopefully this comment is a useful data point when deciding to âdo more cool things with the frontpage for other things in the futureâ ;)
I will be honest⊠that banding looks fine to me. I agree itâs a bit worse, but I donât think itâs like, destroying the design or anything.
To be clear, we didnât remove the menu to toggle it back. In the same place where the usual menu is it just has an off-switch:
(This did go live like 24 hours or so after the banner was put up, so there was a period where you couldnât turn it off, which was unfortunate)