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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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[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Yes! Why are the colors swapped?

[-] ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz 119 points 1 year ago

blue/green for good and red/orange for bad is kinda universal. Reddit had orange for upvote because it's their theme color.

[-] pushka@kbin.social 53 points 1 year ago

kbin.social has (green-up) (red-down) which makes even more sense, hehehe

[-] pgetsos@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago

Which makes it bad for colorblind users like me unfortunately. Red/Orange/Green combined with blue is much better in that regard

[-] pushka@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This user-script changes upvote to blue ~ (down is red)
(can install with tamper-monkey/ grease-monkey / violent-monkey / etc.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/471304-kbin-social-make-upvote-blue-down-is-red-for-colorblind-accessibility

https://i.imgur.com/w6IwaYJ.png

[-] TheFermentalist@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has the same orange up/ blue down combination as reddit

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 year ago

Its been blue up, orange down on most of the instances I've spent time on

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

it is on lemm.ee too, idk why they said that

[-] ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

probably connect app

[-] uhauljoe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

i was gonna say, i'm using memmy mostly and my upvote is orange, downvote is blue

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Most apps, yeah

[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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)

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] DrQuint@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Telvayn@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

upvotes should be green imo

[-] islandofcaucasus@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] hogart@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Doesn't bother me one bit

[-] unrightful@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Uggro@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] makkurokurosuke@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Z4rK@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Jarvis2323@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

Jokes on you, I never vote! It all looks the same to me.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DuckGuy@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

If it were green = upvote and red = downvote it'd be fine, but blue = upvote and orange = downvote is really throwing me off.

[-] thepiguy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

I thought I was crazy for a few weeks.

[-] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

You get used to it. The color scheme makes more sense this way anyway

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yes it’s bothersome after a decade of using Reddit. I wish there was an option to swap colors.

[-] livus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago

I still continue to rarely even use the arrow buttons. If I like or dislike something, I just comment my opinion.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I hadn't even noticed until you said something lol

[-] baggyspandex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Shit. I’m sorry haha.

[-] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe a "thumb in the eye" to reddit? I would have gone /w completely different colors if it was my decision.

this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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