2025 color ban: Difference between revisions
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''💗GoldShip🤍: (programming)'' | ''💗GoldShip🤍: (programming)'' | ||
''💗GoldShip🤍: like ngga you made this shit you should know what it'd cause''</blockquote><blockquote>''ℓ≻ marie: when do we get the colors and image pasters back front page'' | ''💗GoldShip🤍: like ngga you made this shit you should know what it'd cause''</blockquote>[[File:Banksy blue 4.png|none|thumb|December 20th, 2025]]<blockquote>''ℓ≻ marie: when do we get the colors and image pasters back front page'' | ||
''💗GoldShip🤍: when fp stops being a pussy'' | ''💗GoldShip🤍: when fp stops being a pussy'' | ||
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''📱 (Ꙥ) JanTechPL: when the sock of publicity will have a public space'' | ''📱 (Ꙥ) JanTechPL: when the sock of publicity will have a public space'' | ||
''[8185]: and then they make all emojis grayscale and max contrast''</blockquote><blockquote>''i remember someone saying a few days back that sites like owot looks prettier with no colour and i can see why,'' | ''[8185]: and then they make all emojis grayscale and max contrast''</blockquote><gallery> | ||
File:Reaction to color being gone.png|''"Sorrow for a bygone era"'' by [[Dupy]]. The stickman's message was vandalized. (''December 20th, 2025'') | |||
File:The world used to be colorful.png|Later revision with unvandalized 2-row text | |||
</gallery><blockquote>''i remember someone saying a few days back that sites like owot looks prettier with no colour and i can see why,'' | |||
''this looks awesome'' | ''this looks awesome'' | ||
'''— Blancrenarde on December 20th, 2025, commenting on an extravagant script display that used emojis instead of colored text'''</blockquote>[[File: | '''— Blancrenarde on December 20th, 2025, commenting on an extravagant script display that used emojis instead of colored text'''</blockquote><gallery> | ||
[[File: | File:Bringcolorsbackbyfp.png|[[Schjessu]]'s protest alt(''December 20th, 2025'') | ||
File:Bringcolorsbackfp spam.png|Spam that replaces text with '''''#BRINGCOLORSBACKFP''''' | |||
File:Bringcolorsbackfp spam 2.png|December 21st, 2025 | |||
</gallery><blockquote>''man fuck sylveon and fp for causing this problem, no more colors, no more image pasters, no more SLC, just boring ass stuff with pasting image of dots''</blockquote> | |||
[[File:Color condition.png|none|thumb|261x261px|Condition for FP to restore color]] | |||
== Color replacements == | == Color replacements == | ||
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=== Using links === | === Using links === | ||
During the ban, two text colors were still available using [[links]]: blue(''url links'') and green(''coordinate links'').<gallery mode="packed" heights="150"> | During the ban, two text colors were still available using [[links]]: blue(''url links'') and green(''coordinate links''). | ||
People on YWOT have been using links to make color all the way back in 2010. However the ability to create links was disabled on the Mainpage, so link art could only be found in [https://www.yourworldoftext.com/~InfraRaven/MarioMap select subworlds].<gallery mode="packed" heights="150"> | |||
File:Link messages.png|By [[Fun.com|Dupy]](''December 20th, 2025'') | File:Link messages.png|By [[Fun.com|Dupy]](''December 20th, 2025'') | ||
File:Ywot link art.png|YWOT link art from 2010<ref>https://github.com/ywothistory/ywothistory.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2012-12-31-earlyywot.markdown</ref> | File:Ywot link art.png|YWOT link art from 2010<ref>https://github.com/ywothistory/ywothistory.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2012-12-31-earlyywot.markdown</ref> | ||
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Since color is usually the primary means for users to identify themselves on the canvas, the color ban posed yet another issue from which multiple solutions emerged. | Since color is usually the primary means for users to identify themselves on the canvas, the color ban posed yet another issue from which multiple solutions emerged. | ||
[[Fun.com|Dupy/Fun.com]] created a script that applied alternating link types and text decorations to | [[Fun.com|Dupy/Fun.com]] created a script that applied alternating link types and text decorations to his messages, giving him a unique look in a canvas where only three text colors are available. However, he later removed the alternating text decorations and made the link type alternate every two characters instead of one due to readability issues. | ||
[[Schjessu]], on the other hand, opted for the simpler option of writing her messages with the '''bold''' and ''italic'' text decorations. | [[Schjessu]], on the other hand, opted for the simpler option of writing her messages with the '''bold''' and ''italic'' text decorations. | ||
The ban also gave [[Katiserie]] an opportunity to bring out her message tagging script, which attaches note links to her messages so that a popup saying "Written by katiserie" will appear whenever you hover over them. | The ban also gave [[Katiserie]] an opportunity to bring out her message tagging script, which attaches note links to her messages so that a popup saying "Written by katiserie" will appear whenever you hover over them. | ||
[[File:Katiserie message tag.png|center|thumb|383x383px|Katiserie using note links to tag her messages(''December 20th, 2025)'']] | [[File:Katiserie message tag.png|center|thumb|383x383px|Katiserie using note links to tag her messages(''December 20th, 2025)'']]<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> | ||
File:Dupy text.png|A similar mechanism by Dupy/Fun.com(''December 20th, 2025)'' | |||
File:Dupy text 2.png|New version that includes time | |||
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== Spam war == | == Spam war == | ||