Allow developers to color normal parts of messages #3681
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Would indeed be cool, but what's the practical use of this? |
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Aside from that it's cool, it could help making things look better, like categories in help commands, or for making error messages red and success messages green. Just making everything more clear. |
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I love this!
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Thanks for your support! The cool thing is that by adding colors, it's very easy to make warning messages, for example with emojis! |
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This would be great |
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While this is an interesting idea, it should be remembered that Users with a colour-blindness wouldn't be able to perceive certain colours or combinations of colours. Thus, even if this were added by Discord, it shouldn't be relied on for pointing out or highlighting different things. Just food for thought :) |
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I agree(being colorblind, im lucky to be able to see them), but it's useful nonetheless for example some bots use "diff" code type inside code blocks to display red and green, I don't see why this is much different :) |
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As long as the client keeps accessibility settings in mind, this should be fine. Discord already uses colored text, it should know how to handle everyone, including colorblind users. |
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honestly having markdown for coloring text would be nice in general- it's one of those things that used to be everywhere in the form of bbcode, but it never quite made it to more modern platforms either way, would definitely appreciate this as a way to show errors/etc, though i agree that it shouldn't be the only thing devs rely on for it
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I think you just demonstrated why they haven't included it. It becomes the responsibility of the developer to make sure it follows accessibility standards. |
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i mean, there are plenty of things that already aren't incredibly accessible. for example i'm not sure how accessible the button colors themselves are, even though they're still part of the app- not to mention the number of emoji that not even perfectly sighted people can see against the background (the default twemoji tm and anything black), or the number of custom emoji that could induce seizures but aren't officially banned from the platform. see also: their own use of colored text that can still cause eyestrain against the background... which was a big reason for the pushback against the new branding and colors originally accessibility for the app in general in this case can be as easy as a toggle that turns off colored text or automatically adjusts colors to become accessible. this isn't extremely difficult: my color bot attempts to do this when people change their role colors, it needs some tweaking but it's not awful. the same code that adjusts role colors' saturation- which already may or may not be entirely accessible- could probably help too colors like this would be an accent to messages that many people would enjoy, and they'd help get across certain messages. they'd likely help accessibility for some people as well- there are folks who tend to skim or misread messages (due to adhd, dyslexia, and others) and accidentally do things they didn't intend to do. being able to color code messages would help them out all in all while accessibility is definitely an issue and i don't feel like devs should rely entirely on colored text for things, i also don't think that accessibility is 100% a reason not to implement it. there's already colored text used around the app, from colored usernames to messages that already exist like the op pointed out. there are already multiple things in the app that aren't fully accessible and likely won't ever be because it would take attempting to ban a lot of existing content on the platform. on top of that, a toggle that turns it off wouldn't be too difficult, and existing code could probably be used to help make things more accessible as well anyway uh, sorry for the essay :'3 |
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We should also be able to put directly hexadecimal colors, like this |
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Having preset colors would let them change them slightly in light vs dark mode so that they're always legible and accessible |
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Related: #3022 |
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Hello. It would be cool if you could color parts of a message a bot sends. I know that you could use codeblocks, but they aren’t super flexible. It would be cool if you could have the ability to color parts of a message, just like the timestamp works.
Timestamps currently look like this:
<t:TIMESTAMP:STYLE>, for example<t:100000:r>. What if you could do the same for coloring text? Discord could add a couple colors we can choose from, just like the buttons, so the messages stay relative clean.An example could be this:
<c:Hello, world!:1>. Each color is represented by a number that you actually use in your message. The colors I would suggest are the following.What do you guys think of this idea?
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