Funny eyes

January 25, 2007 6:27 AM

Is it just me, or does everyone else's eyes go funny after reading MetaFilter for some time?
posted by jeyoung to MetaFilter-Related at 6:27 AM (24 comments total)

How's the weather, jeyoung?
posted by carsonb at 6:35 AM on January 25, 2007

I've noticed sometimes it makes everyone else's eyes look a darker shade of green.
posted by bobobox at 6:39 AM on January 25, 2007

Sorry for the snark. It was offered with the best intentions. If MetaFilter's color schema hurt your eyes, maybe try the plaintext option on your Preferences page.
posted by carsonb at 6:39 AM on January 25, 2007

I hesitate… cloudy.
posted by tellurian at 6:39 AM on January 25, 2007

I highly reccomend plaintext.
posted by muddgirl at 6:40 AM on January 25, 2007

Yeah, mine do. But they do that if I look at any page/site too long.
posted by misanthropicsarah at 6:42 AM on January 25, 2007

Try setting the font to a larger size.
posted by The corpse in the library at 6:43 AM on January 25, 2007

"...does everyone else's eyes go funny after reading MetaFilter for some time?"

Yeah, mine are totally hilarious.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:46 AM on January 25, 2007

Try typing with two hands.
I've given up reading. I just guess it all now.
posted by peacay at 6:51 AM on January 25, 2007

I get all snarky and kick the dog. Here Rover, here boy...
posted by LarryC at 7:15 AM on January 25, 2007

My eyes get gimlety.
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:26 AM on January 25, 2007

^{NOPE JUSTYOU.}
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 8:03 AM on January 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

Well, the colour scheme on MetaTalk is not bad itself, but the one on MetaFilter hurts!

I will try plain-text. Thanks.
posted by jeyoung at 8:19 AM on January 25, 2007

I think it's that 18Hz theme music Matt added.
posted by Plutor at 8:31 AM on January 25, 2007

‮‮Nope.‭
posted by loquacious at 8:32 AM on January 25, 2007 [3 favorites]

I get it sometimes too, usually when borrowing someone's PC that has their colors too bright. I basically get an "after image" when looking at plain white sites after reading mefi for some time.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:53 AM on January 25, 2007

‮‮killer trick, dude‭
posted by NinjaTadpole at 8:57 AM on January 25, 2007

It's physiological. A rods & cones thing. It's the same phenomenon that makes rockers vomit after 30 seconds of watching the Blue Man Group.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:06 AM on January 25, 2007

The only "problem" with plain text is that everything is the same color scheme and when you've been viewing things in plain text for oh, YEARS now, you sometimes forget what people are talking about by "in the blue" or "in the green."

(Then again, you might not have this problem as most people are smarter than I am in the memory department. I'm kinda not so bright.)
posted by grapefruitmoon at 9:12 AM on January 25, 2007

Who reads MetaFilter? I thought it was just a race to see who could post the most sarcastic comments the fastest, like some weird hipster gameshow, Who Wants to be a MetaFillionaire?"
posted by Eideteker at 10:36 AM on January 25, 2007

Pft. Screw anyone who isn't already a MetaFillionaire. Reality internet is already piddling to the lcd.
Guilty as charged.
posted by carsonb at 11:14 AM on January 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

Wait, Eideteker, it isn't?
posted by ninjew at 12:59 PM on January 25, 2007

Along the same lines of suing tobacco companies for making cigarettes that blow out your lungs and gun manufacturers for making guns that shoot out your stomach and fast food restaurants for making fast food that hardens up your arteries, I wonder whether the class action lawsuit of 2020 will be against web designers for making webpages that are hurty on the eyes.
posted by onlyconnect at 2:43 PM on January 25, 2007

I didn't think this was "Who Wants to be a MetaFillionaire" so much as a constant uphill struggle to prove one's superior wit and intelligence to avoid being voted off "Weakest-Link" style.

YOU ARE THE WEAKEST MEFITE, GOODBYE.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 7:37 PM on January 25, 2007