I hate to sound like a "Reddit Holdover", but is anyone else confused by the swap of downvote/upvote colors?

3 years ago by BaggySpandex to c/voyagerapp

Maybe there’s a logical reason behind it, but I always fear I’ve accidentally downvoted someone when I haven’t.

randomaccount43543 55 points 3 years ago

Yes! Why are the colors swapped?

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ciko22i3 119 points 3 years ago

blue/green for good and red/orange for bad is kinda universal. Reddit had orange for upvote because it's their theme color.

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pushka 54 points 3 years ago

kbin.social has (green-up) (red-down) which makes even more sense, hehehe

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pgetsos 55 points 3 years ago

Which makes it bad for colorblind users like me unfortunately. Red/Orange/Green combined with blue is much better in that regard

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pushka 1 point 3 years ago

This user-script changes upvote to blue ~ (down is red)
(can install with tamper-monkey/ grease-monkey / violent-monkey / etc.

https://greasyfork.org/...

https://i.imgur.com/w6IwaYJ.png

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TheFermentalist 11 points 3 years ago

Lemmy has the same orange up/ blue down combination as reddit

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Quill7513 25 points 3 years ago

Its been blue up, orange down on most of the instances I've spent time on

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Menachem 4 points 3 years ago

it is on lemm.ee too, idk why they said that

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ciko22i3 5 points 3 years ago

probably connect app

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uhauljoe 6 points 3 years ago

i was gonna say, i'm using memmy mostly and my upvote is orange, downvote is blue

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can 4 points 3 years ago

Most apps, yeah

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DJKJuicy 45 points 3 years ago

It's counterintuitive IMO. Cool, calm colors = good. Warm, angry colors = bad.

I realize Reddit used orange, but this ain't Reddit.

(Edit: Currently using Connect for Android 1.0.88)

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balder1991 16 points 3 years ago

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driving_crooner 35 points 3 years ago

I used RiF and didn't even remember it having colors there and didn't notice it was different here

Edit: I just noticed this is a community from a specific lemmy app that I don't use. I use Jerboa and ot also have blue upvotes red downvotes.

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Spliffman1 16 points 3 years ago

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DrQuint 11 points 3 years ago

Also, absolute irony, old.reddit let subs customize the upvote and downvote buttons. So I basically never experienced a consistent subset of colors except on "lazy" subs.

Reddit on the whole was uglier without the free form css.

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Telvayn 27 points 3 years ago

upvotes should be green imo

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hogart 24 points 3 years ago

Doesn't bother me one bit

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islandofcaucasus 23 points 3 years ago

That's so funny to me. I've been irritated by my downvotes on lemmy but I never really knew why. I've gone back numerous times to verify that I didn't accidently upvote a comment I meant to downvotes, but it never occurred to me that my monkey brain is just so used to the reddit colors that it got confused

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unrightful 13 points 3 years ago

because voyager is based on Apollo for iOS and that’s how christian had his app colors. i didn’t even know reddit used orange / red for upvotes till this post lol used Apollo for way too many years

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Uggro 27 points 3 years ago

Did it? I used Apollo since release and my upvotes were always orange/red and downvotes blue. I even went back and looked at saved screenshots just to make sure I wasn’t crazy.

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makkurokurosuke 12 points 3 years ago

Yep same here just checked google to see if I was crazy, upvotes were orange. My email app and Apollo had collapse/archive swipes in opposite directions so instead of collapsing a thread I’d upvote the comment all the time, can’t forget the giant orange bar that showed up

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Z4rK 7 points 3 years ago

Not on my iOS at least. It was always the opposite of here in Voyager and I’m still always confused.

Was this something Christian changed at some point or that followed some theme settings, making the experience different between users?

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theneverfox 3 points 3 years ago

Is that a desired feature? I'm just using outlines vs solid colors, but it'd be trivial to switch... I'm not looking to make visual changes configurable until the next major version when I can make it performant though

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Jarvis2323 10 points 3 years ago

Jokes on you, I never vote! It all looks the same to me.

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BURN 10 points 3 years ago

Yeah, idk, I keep thinking I’ve downvoted something when I actually updated it. It’d be nice to have a way to swap them back

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thepiguy 9 points 3 years ago

I thought I was crazy for a few weeks.