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Thread poster: Tom in London
Tom in London
Tom in London
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Sep 10, 2021

Why do some topics appear in a different light blue colour - for no apparent reason - for an indeterminate period before reverting to the creamish-yellow colour they were before?

This colour change has got nothing to with topics that are trending, or the topics that have most recently been commented on. So what's it all about?

It's very annoying, and time-wasting, because that changed colour always makes me think "oh, something special must have happened in that topic... See more
Why do some topics appear in a different light blue colour - for no apparent reason - for an indeterminate period before reverting to the creamish-yellow colour they were before?

This colour change has got nothing to with topics that are trending, or the topics that have most recently been commented on. So what's it all about?

It's very annoying, and time-wasting, because that changed colour always makes me think "oh, something special must have happened in that topic" so I click on it, only to discover that absolutely nothing has happened.

Example:

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Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL
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Colours... Sep 10, 2021

they are in different colours because the topics are... off-topic! The inclusive-format topics are in light green. It seems to be a stylistic choice by the site designer.
 
Tom in London
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Puzzling Sep 10, 2021

Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:

they are in different colours because the topics are... off-topic! The inclusive-format topics are in light green. It seems to be a stylistic choice by the site designer.


But they change back and forth from one colour to the other! Who decides when they are on-topic and then off-topic?

If you scroll further down the list you'll see a lot of other topics that I think would also merit the light-blue treatment....

[Edited at 2021-09-10 12:41 GMT]
 
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL
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Ah... Sep 10, 2021

Tom in London wrote:

Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:

they are in different colours because the topics are... off-topic! The inclusive-format topics are in light green. It seems to be a stylistic choice by the site designer.


But they change back and forth from one colour to the other! Who decides when they are on-topic and then off-topic?

If you scroll further down the list you'll see a lot of other topics that I think would also merit the light-blue treatment....

[Edited at 2021-09-10 12:41 GMT]



I didn't see the bit where you say they go back to a normal colour. If that's true, it is strange indeed. But I've never seen the colour reverting back to normal...
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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@Tom + Giovanni Sep 10, 2021

There are two options under Subscribe to recent posts:

Post new topic Off-topic: Hidden Font size: - / +

(Everything is shown in the same colour)

or

Post new topic Off-topic: Shown Font size: - / +

(Off-topics appear in light blue)
 
Robert Forstag
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Off-topic?: Rearranging the deck chairs on the *Titanic* Sep 10, 2021

A thousand pardons!
 
Tom in London
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A question Sep 10, 2021

How can a topic be "off topic"?
 
Christopher Schröder
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Off the topic of translation… Sep 11, 2021

Tom, you created a whole thread for me and Mervyn to go off topic. What is the mystery?

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