Customizable colors for post elements

[machinaeZER0]

One small thing I appreciate about Jerboa/Boost for Reddit/even the Lemmy web client is that the community name is listed on a given post with a pop of color - I think this is would be a good thing to add to Thunder at some point! In addition to being visually pleasing, it also reinforces that the community name is a clickable element that goes somewhere specific.

(Side note - I actually love that Thunder doesn't show community icons, especially in compact view - my Thunder feeds look so clean!)

[machinaeZER0]

In some apps I believe the color used for that element can be customized - preeeetty sure in Jerboa it's using my system accent color/Jerboa theme color, though the blue makes sense either way in my brain since I'm used to links on the web generally being a shade of blue?

[micahmo]

Hey @machinaeZER0, after a few weeks of iterating on the design of Thunder, is this still something you want? I remember we tried colors for subscribed communities and it barely stood out. Just wondering if you still want this. 😊

[machinaeZER0]

I think it would be helpful, especially as we continue to add more information to posts (even if that information can be toggled off). I think community name is a good candidate for text that could be themed with our accent color to help it stand out a bit (but not too much). Also feels like it would be nice to add another dash of themed color to the feed, as right now the accent color doesn't show up too prominently (at least in dark modes). What are your thoughts?

[machinaeZER0]

This is how Boost lets you customize your feed colors, which I've always thought was quite intuitive:

I'm a big fan of the example at the top which live previews your custom colors!

[Kommynct]

I find that especially in the compact view, some of the metadata information being colorized would be very helpful, especially the name of the community is very visually confusing to parse. Even just changing the community name would tell my eyes where to go to see the other two things surrounding it.

[micahmo]

I believe this is at least partly solved by #1227.

[wary-hermit]

Would love to see customizable colors.
For example in Relay (reddit client) everything is colored, so it's easy to see most import things - post title and upvote count:

In Thunder I've set larger font for post titles, smaller for metadata, wider spacers, but still feed looks a bit like a wall of random text. In comparison with Relay it takes a bit longer to understand posts:

[Matth7878]

Just came to also ask for it. List of posts are hard to read as there is very few things your eyes can catch to quickly tell apart posts. (I am using compact view)
IMHO coloring post elements would help a lot.