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Re: colors of rating digits
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Mon, 27 Mar 2000 04:24:17 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In the traffic report/page "shades of red" currently show how hot the article
> count is, that is, how recent the 38 posts to off-topic.pun in the last 24
> hours actually are.
> 
> In the list of articles you get when you drill in there, "shades of red" show
> the relative rating of the articles, or so I think (1).
> 
> Suggest that perhaps this is an overloaded color useage and instead of using
> red, another color be chosen.

The red looks nice though :) Green/Black?


> 1 - I am not sure, when a new feature first appears, where exactly to go to
> get a concise view of what the author thinks the feature actually does or how
> to use it... it seems to usually appear in a post here, but while that's good
> while the feature is breaking, it's not so great for the reader who comes to
> Lugnet 2 months later and wonders how the feature works.

Do you mean like a set of features/faq/help combination page, with links from
all over LUGNET to it, and all indexed nicely, perhaps with a spiffy search
engine on top too? <insert quick prototype example here, if it wasn't so late>

Richard



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  Re: colors of rating digits
 
(...) Works for me. Don't forget the color blind, though... (...) Yes! Didn't you sort of have a proto of something like that up before? ++Lar (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: colors of rating digits
 
(...) Green was actually the first color we tried. But even mid-green is very hard to read on white, since it is the second brightest of the four primaries. Blue would be great, except it's too ingrained as a link color. But through CSS, it ought to (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  colors of rating digits
 
In the traffic report/page "shades of red" currently show how hot the article count is, that is, how recent the 38 posts to off-topic.pun in the last 24 hours actually are. In the list of articles you get when you drill in there, "shades of red" (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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