Discussion for possible improvements to the homepage
Hey LemmyRS,
I decided to try and change the style of the website to make it as accessible and appealing as I could through dev tools (inspect element).
Here are my results
Current:
After changing:
I thought this would help foster discussion on how we can improve this instance to look both appealing and accessible for supporting the most users for our growing community!
I really like the darker colors. But I don't think it's possible to change the styles of this particular instance, it would have to be implemented in lemmy-ui (and then be available to all lemmy instances).
And note that capitalized text isn't particularly accessible. In fact, it is harder to read than regular text, because we have a lot more practice reading regular text than capitalized text.
and note that capitalized text isn't particularly accessible
Yeah admittedly my "sense" in design has a ways to go. After my exams I'm hoping to read "Don't let me think Twice", which is apparently a really good book for UI design. Hopefully maybe i can bring in some of the good concepts from there to Lemmy too
I'm pretty sure individual lemmy instances can host their own themese, see the docs. Though notably I have never done it before, so not super sure the difficulty
If that were possible I would disable it, same as I did on Reddit. I want to be the one to customize the theme to my liking consistently across all communities I view, not to the liking of each individual community. Maybe what is missing are:
one of the best features of (old) reddit was the ease of customizing a communities css, and the way you could make each community you moderate its own and feel like a seperate, unique place to be
I hope Lemmy improves on this front soon, having to fiddle with files on the backend or make pull requests to the application proper introduces a lot of friction. (not to mention I find the default theming kinda mediocre)
Thank you! I was trying to distinguish title-like elements from regular text using a heavier font-weight. I also didn't like how the Rust logo was hard to see, so I gave it a white background. I was wondering if I could somehow contribute to the website in any way.