With the new "night mode" that you can activate now, your familiar, somehow oldish, somehow strage, Steemit.com website will transform under your eyes in something completely new.
As you can see from the screenshot above, the theme uses a high contrast approach, suitable not only for actual night mode, but also for situations when you want to be more focused. It reminds me of the Mac Journal "Enter Focused Editing" mode, which actually reverses the way you add and edit information (visually).
I think I may get addicted to it.
In other news, it's not the big blockchain innovation that will win users on the long term, it's the accumulation of small, witty and nice features like this one. Look at Facebook for instance. It took them years to add "reactions" instead of "likes", although, from a technical point of view, this was absolutely trivial.
I hope this trend of "being aware of what users enjoy, rather than our own technical capabilities, which we know are absolutely astonishing, anyway" trend will continue.
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Youtube added 'night mode' a few months ago...maybe a trend as some people do not want to be blinded by a white computer screen...
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It looks wonderful...
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It's truly exciting to watch Steemit grow, and I know it'll keep on growing too. :) Some people don't like the new logo, but I do. I think its psychologically great. Logos have to follow a certain line of propagated psychology like Twitter does. It goes back to old Edward Bernays propaganda tactics. Gotta use propaganda for good in order to take out the propaganda of evil. ;)
Though I'm still waiting for the next big STEEM rally. :)
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When that will hit, it will hit big. Really big. Mark my words.
Wait, I just marked them on the blockchain, immutably.
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Love the new "night mode"! I'm happy to see there are other people who like it. Have already read so much negative reactions to the new UI.
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For me using night mode at night feels a bit strange, if I don't want to get exposed to a lot of light before sleep I dim the brightness down.
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I agree you have to satisfy your customers, but you have to be able to predict what you're customers want when they don't even realize they want it.
Everytime there is mass revolt when facebook does a UI update and then it fades away once everyone figures out they like the changes better.
Sometimes what people want isn't what they actually want (if that makes sense).
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It looks interesting
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I think it will keep the users more occupied than before. @ned and dev team are doing great job behind the curtain. Way to go
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The colors are horrendous. I think they were something about 6 years ago.
Speaking of CSS issues, there are issues with your app CSS.
You probably should set the height to 100% or a very large value to always be full length.
ie
Fix the css code itself or add a style directly in the div.
.jumbotron {
...
min-height: 300px;
}
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i guess i'll have to try sometime.. although not sure why
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The new blue/green color reminds be a lot of my old Commodore 64 days... lol.
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the night mode is really cool to work on with
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This is absolutely on the money @dragosroua. The utility of the front end is i high impact tool in terns of breaking into the realm of mainstream adoption.
I love the night mode too by the way and it is actually practical at night.
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