I just figured I'd offer my two cents and maybe help improve the look of the website. Others might have opinions on the site too, hence the thread.
I like the overall look and feel, but a few things stick out like a sore thumb:
White too bright When you follow a link to read more about an article, I'll use the About page as an example. The color for the content area is white and that hits me like lightning from a clear blue sky (yes that was a pun intended at the color scheme of the website).
Fix: set the background-color of the "interior-content" class (inthisstylesheet) to something with less contrast. Maybe "#111516" like the navbar and the footer uses:
To round, or not to round The mix of rounded and not rounded corners, I see where you were going with this and some people might like it, it's an eyesore for me though.
If you want them rounded The "title" (or date) of the info items on the front page, and also the "AUTHOR BIO" on each page. Is rounded more than the info item it self meaning that the white background is visible in the corners (see pic above), when it shouldn't be.
Fix: round the "title" the same amount as the info items them selves
Intuitive clicking Make the title of the info items (on the front page) clickable, and not just the picture.
Fix: add to or turn h3 (in class panel-body) into link and style them up
I second your suggestion, white backgrounds are always painful at night. The rest I could go either way. If they don't like your suggestions you can make a style for the stylish add-on.
When quickly scanning the topics in feed it's often hard to tell what has already been read because of how extreme the alternating colors are in the rows.
( the alternating navy is higher contrast than the read / unread white text. )
Either bring the navy's a bit closer together and/or darken the "already read" text.
the user's timezone, if we're clever. in javascript. Would be pretty easy. We do have a lot of little details to do on the website to make it even more awesome.
Yeah thats what I had in mind; more or less. Buttons for toggling the light/dark would be nice; but I prefer automation. The only really snag with defining 'night' and 'day' would be at what time it actually gets dark outside.
That could be difficult, so yolu may need to include some googlemaps api to have an easy time dealing with coordinates. Only issue with this is that then the user will have to enable location (and given all the tinfoil hatting here; might cause an uproar).
My suggestion: pull the needed info from our bio, else default to dark (or something else). As there is an area to set our location.
It wouldn't be the first time Privacy Badger proved itself as a bit of a crude tool. To its defense it does say "potential trackers". No worries, all is good. I don't suspect you're tracking us out of the ordinary for normal statistics and such.
