On: MDN Redesign

[tooker]

I use MDN heavily every day and this is really depressing. When I first landed on a fresh page today I thought I'd clicked on the wrong link and got some low-rent MDN knockoff by accident. It instantly looked cheap and jarring on a squint test.

Also, why is everything error-toned? Red is a danger color and invokes negative emotion almost universally. Red MDN!? Really?

I'm a browser extension developer and I'm strongly considering burning a week to write an extension to fix this.

[lolinder → tooker]

> Also, why is everything error-toned? Red is a danger color and invokes negative emotion almost universally. Red MDN!? Really?

It's not all red. They've color-coded each page by whether it's about HTML (red), CSS (blue), Javascript (orange), HTTP (green), or Web APIs (purple). The Web Technology section is also blue for some reason.

[JSdev1 → lolinder]

Why would they do that, what's the point beyond confusion? The whole thing is bad

[vhakulinen → lolinder]

Oh, thats why the colors change. It actually hurts my eyes when jumping from link to link. So far, the purple is the worst (makes it hard to read).