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Make DMs easier to differentiate from normal feed posts in dark mode
Maybe a brighter outline - or if it's all done with opacities (sorry not checked the code), maybe a more opaque value on the background.
Anything to help it show up more - to see the difference currently I have to turn my phone's brightness way up.
My first try at the style of DMs was using the primary color as the border, but we got feedback that they looked like an add. I'm also still not happy with the current style. I think now that we don't have the left and right border in the timeline anymore, other possibilities appear. Let's see if we can come up with something better.
The front-end.social instance added CSS to do this corner highlight - not saying that's how it should be done, but might help spark ideas?
Want to verify this wasn't fixed already. The background color stands out, there's also a big @
The current state looks like this:
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Yes this has already changed since I wrote this issue, and it's much better than it was.