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ACK! Turn off the alternating colors please!
lleggs:
I like the alternating colors, per the previous post, it makes it easier.
scott:
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I like the alternating colors, per the previous post, it makes it easier.
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Heh, well you have some kind of strange eye physiology, because proper human factors design would dictate that when quickly scanning across many different items, they should be in the same color to keep the process as fast as possible. When the items are different colors, they eye must physically refocus a little with each item (I believe it's because different colors refract slightly differently and focus at different ranges on the back of the eyeball. But the color change may also interfere with the brain's visual processing circuits as well, forcing the brain to discriminate in both color and shape for each item.) The act of refocusing on each line takes a bit of time and so you can't just scan down relying simply on shape pattern matching alone (which the human visual system excels at).
I'm not making this stuff up... I've learned the same principle in two different courses: One on user interface design and one on cognitive psychology.
Imagine trying to read an entire novel where every other sentence was some random color of ink... Our brain just doesn't work well that way.
scott
lleggs:
maybe i do, hehe, but I like it
Aldaron:
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I don't know what setting you might have changed, but I only have 3 colors.
Color #1(Sand) : For un-read threads.
Color #2 (Cyan?): For threads I have been in.
Color #3 (White): For already visited threads, but new post have been made.
All in all, I think it made the forum, a bit better and easier to use.
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I agree. It makes it easier to see if I need to go into that thread or not.
3dot14:
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I don't know what setting you might have changed, but I only have 3 colors.
Color #1(Sand) : For un-read threads.
Color #2 (Cyan?): For threads I have been in.
Color #3 (White): For already visited threads, but new post have been made.
All in all, I think it made the forum, a bit better and easier to use.
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ONLY three colors?!
Also the shceme is a little different from what I see:
Bold Sand and White Color alternate for threads I did NOT vist that HAVE new posts
Bold Cyan for threads I DID visit that HAVE new posts
Regular Sand for threads I did NOTvist that has NO new posts
Regular Cyan for threads I DID visit that have NO new posts
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