A pony of any color?

October 31, 2001 6:26 AM

I think Metafilter is the best thing there is. When I saw the bright ,colorful,sparkling "Spooky Filter" on the home page, I realized what I have been longing for more than anything in the world: being able to choose a brighter color pattern for my personalized viewing pleasure. Am I a heretic ? Will I mercilessly burn at the stake?
posted by Voyageman to feature requests at 6:26 AM (15 comments total)

You will bow down to the alter of #006699. Any other color is an insult to Mathowie and all that is holy.

Just Kidding.

Seriously, I've got a feeling that if users could choose their own colors, 99% wouldn't customize them. We just love the #006699.
posted by TacoConsumer at 7:36 AM on October 31, 2001

Me too, Voyageman and TacoConsumer!

(always wanted to say this and, it being Halloween and all that, figured it would be hallowed!)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 8:00 AM on October 31, 2001

I dunno...The white-on-blue does occasionally strain my eyes, lacks a certain punch. But I am a content-over-style guy anyway, so I can live with it.
posted by mapalm at 8:50 AM on October 31, 2001

i'm slowly having my entire body tattooed in #006699...
posted by jpoulos at 9:06 AM on October 31, 2001

i'm slowly having my entire body tattooed in #006699...
posted by jpoulos at 9:06 AM on October 31, 2001

hey! my first double-comment! i feel like a newbie again.
posted by jpoulos at 9:07 AM on October 31, 2001

i feel like a newbie again

jpoulos is the only poster in the world whose double-comments are actually better than just the one - and triply so when you get a third helping free. I'm sorry, but this could not go on being left unsaid for much longer. :-)
I'm abusing the Halloween spirit I know, but here in Portugal it's the eve of the Dia de Todos os Santos and if we don't choose a Saint of our own, we die and go to Mexico or something, where it's Dia de los Muertos, brrr...
posted by MiguelCardoso at 9:15 AM on October 31, 2001

You might try the lo-fi version and/or add a user style sheet. There's a thread about that around here somewheres. I think the site has the basic classes designed so that a user style sheet could be reasonably sphisticated.
posted by rodii at 9:26 AM on October 31, 2001

> I think the site has the basic classes designed so that a user style sheet could be reasonably sphisticated.

I haven't tried, but I think you could go pretty far with a user style sheet. If anyone wants to design one, they could post it, someone here would bookmarkletize it and we'd be off.

(Personally, I find the white-on-blue very easy to read and wouldn't change it.)
posted by sylloge at 9:44 AM on October 31, 2001

Here’s the previous thread on user style sheets.

I’ve been meaning to make a whole bunch more, varied and all that (the first one is to make lofi mefi look sorta like normal mefi), but I am one lazy ass dude. However, just ‘body {background:#xxx;color:#xxx}’ will get you pretty far.
posted by gleemax at 1:59 PM on October 31, 2001

I almost forgot. One bad thing about lofi is that the threads use the normal mefi look. It’s not that big of a deal, though (and with some work I’m sure the user style sheet could make it look fine too).
posted by gleemax at 2:05 PM on October 31, 2001

Matt said somewhere that he was going to make the whole lofi experience look, well, lofi at some time.

Maybe a pony would help?

p.s. my Psion + Mobile Phone desire lofi in an intense and passionate way.
posted by nedrichards at 1:44 AM on November 1, 2001

Well, for misanthropes, nostalgics, and me, a blank blue page w/header would be nice. We could simply dial it up let our unrealized expectations fill it in.
posted by Opus Dark at 2:29 AM on November 1, 2001

Everybody :

33!

66!

99!

R-r-r-r-ock!

(Repeat until beaten senseless by passersby)
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:42 AM on November 1, 2001

Uhh, 00 I mean. Man, I suck at the internet.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:43 AM on November 1, 2001