Voyager @lemmy.world BaggySpandex @lemmy.world 12 mo. ago

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

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

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Yes! Why are the colors swapped?
- blue/green for good and red/orange for bad is kinda universal. Reddit had orange for upvote because it's their theme color.
  
  kbin.social has (green-up) (red-down) which makes even more sense, hehehe
- Lemmy has the same orange up/ blue down combination as reddit
  
  Its been blue up, orange down on most of the instances I've spent time on
  
  i was gonna say, i'm using memmy mostly and my upvote is orange, downvote is blue
  
  Most apps, yeah
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)
- I think blue is associated with “down” or negativity.
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.
- Permanently Deleted
- 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.
upvotes should be green imo
Doesn't bother me one bit
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
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
- 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.
  
  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
- 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?
- 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
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
Jokes on you, I never vote! It all looks the same to me.
If it were green = upvote and red = downvote it'd be fine, but blue = upvote and orange = downvote is really throwing me off.
I thought I was crazy for a few weeks.
You get used to it. The color scheme makes more sense this way anyway
Yes it’s bothersome after a decade of using Reddit. I wish there was an option to swap colors.
I still continue to rarely even use the arrow buttons. If I like or dislike something, I just comment my opinion.
I really like it. It reminds me of greenlight = go ahead, red light = stop (posting that kind of content).

Makes it easier to stop using the downvote as a disagree button.

I also like how upvotes and downvotes are public here.
I hadn't even noticed until you said something lol
- Shit. I’m sorry haha.
Maybe a "thumb in the eye" to reddit? I would have gone /w completely different colors if it was my decision.

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