I am just replying here because the thread below was frozen so I couldn't, but it is something I bring up all the time in my reasoning to my friends in "why its so hard for me to switch to DW" etc etc.
You said: "(there's a reason we have site skins with three different background colors and the default skin is a very light grey and not white),"
After seeing that, I just wanted to point out that one of my biggest problems with DreamWidth is actually the fact that the background isn't white. The black on grey gives me a really bad headache after a while, and I just.. I can't. So maybe I am backwards or broken.. :( idk. But I really wish their was an option for a white background other than the Lynx or... Celery (I forget its name sorry, and it is celery colored, so... :p) theme. :(
Also, if curious, I think my ideal theme would be "Gradation Vertical" if it..... wasn't black. Which I guess would be "Tropospherical Red Vertical" with a white background, if it existed haha.
ANYWAY. With all this LJ drama, I decided I really wanted to make DW my new home. But I was once again faced with this "grey" issue which has driven me away a few times before. I know it sounds stupid, that something as simple as a background would bother be so much.. but when a site is made for reading, and something is making it hard to read.. it makes me not want to read/use the site, you know? SO YEA, RAMBLING. I AM GOOD AT THAT TOO. BUT ANYWAYS. SO. LJ has just gone to far imo, so I came back *waves* and.... Ran into the problem again. This time I don't want to go back to LJ though, so I decided to make my own stylish theme, so yea, that's cool, I have my white background.... but my computer is slow so... yea it doesn't work too well, and applies the style slow or not at all sometimes... so. :( IDK I JUST WISH THEIR WAS AN OPTION :(
IDK SORRY. IDK I FEEL WEIRD COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS... but... IT WAS ON MY MIND AND THEN YOU MENTIONED IT.. so I took the bait. /hides
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You said:
"(there's a reason we have site skins with three different background colors and the default skin is a very light grey and not white),"
After seeing that, I just wanted to point out that one of my biggest problems with DreamWidth is actually the fact that the background isn't white. The black on grey gives me a really bad headache after a while, and I just.. I can't. So maybe I am backwards or broken.. :( idk. But I really wish their was an option for a white background other than the Lynx or... Celery (I forget its name sorry, and it is celery colored, so... :p) theme. :(
Also, if curious, I think my ideal theme would be "Gradation Vertical" if it..... wasn't black. Which I guess would be "Tropospherical Red Vertical" with a white background, if it existed haha.
ANYWAY. With all this LJ drama, I decided I really wanted to make DW my new home. But I was once again faced with this "grey" issue which has driven me away a few times before. I know it sounds stupid, that something as simple as a background would bother be so much.. but when a site is made for reading, and something is making it hard to read.. it makes me not want to read/use the site, you know? SO YEA, RAMBLING. I AM GOOD AT THAT TOO. BUT ANYWAYS. SO. LJ has just gone to far imo, so I came back *waves* and.... Ran into the problem again. This time I don't want to go back to LJ though, so I decided to make my own stylish theme, so yea, that's cool, I have my white background.... but my computer is slow so... yea it doesn't work too well, and applies the style slow or not at all sometimes... so. :( IDK I JUST WISH THEIR WAS AN OPTION :(
IDK SORRY. IDK I FEEL WEIRD COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS... but... IT WAS ON MY MIND AND THEN YOU MENTIONED IT.. so I took the bait. /hides