User blog comment:Guy Bukzi Montag/Poll: Should the Torq mouse pointer be removed?/@comment-31458611-20190421200127/@comment-34918040-20190421234129

@ Tobias mann:

I already knew what was awaiting me when I read "octopus". 😄


 * "from the days posters couldn't help but type on a background screenshotted from a race on Tokyo."

Er—no? When I joined this wiki a year and a few months ago, it had this high-res picture of a (was it a Huayra BC?) in Tokyo (?). The background was the first thing I turned off when I discovered my settings page. Sharp high-res detailed photos are extremely distracting as HTML backgrounds.

Another thing: To me the orange link color in this wiki was (and is) irritating, too. I guess it was supposed to be a nod to the orange colour of highlighted text inside A8. But that doesn't work on a black background, to my mind. Black and orange gives bee. Sunburnt bee. And I don't like that you can't distinguish visited and non-visited links. Perhaps some day I'lll work on a new colour scheme, let people test it with personal CSS files and vote.