Oh sweet fuck, tell me this is a joke

[branchandroot]

*looking at the "new and improved" archive skin in horror*

Gray! The background is GRAY!

And the "this is one of your own things" background is PINK!

*horrified beyond words*

ETA: A Quick Fix Skin I ran up is available here until it actually goes public.

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[killing_rose]

Here via unfunnyfandom.

And. I'm so glad I'm not alone. (My reading page and my roommate's cries of horror told me that I was not alone, but it's nice to know that people outside of my immediate sandbox are also upset.)

I've implemented the various stylish scripts, but holy god, I should not have to do that in order to not get a migraine. And I don't even read on Ao3; I flip over to it to pull off Kindle-formatted fics. In the five minutes it takes me to assemble a day or two's worth of fic, my head started pounding. Not okay. (And I know I cannot possibly be alone. Isn't the OTW or Ao3 committed to accessibility? Because grey on grey is seriously inaccessible. And let's not consider the panda skin. I'm trying to forget the panda skin.)

I have to ask: What were they thinking?

[branchandroot]

Yeah, honestly, I have no /clue/ how they could have thought lowering the contrast that much was a good idea. The old background was about the best compromise possible between high and low contrast. If I'm being charitable, I can suppose they were only getting complaints from users who need lower contrast and didn't do their accessibility research about just how low you can go before tipping the other way (not very).

Fortunately, there is word of an emergency deploy in the next few days to fix it back to white!

(*just kind of cries over the panda skin* It could have been good! Not something I'd use, but good for the unspeakably cute crowd! Now, if someone would just realize that anime/manga does not equal unspeakably cute crowd, we'll be getting somewhere. *sighs)