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Hey guys, it's been a while since I've been trying to get this blog together, so I've decided to put it under hiatus until further notice. I shall continue to update this blog with occassional postings every now and then just to not appear to be completely absent - you should be able to access it through the phone app. Thanks for the patience ♡
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nightmare-cubed-deactivated2021

If you support disabled people, please stand with us against Discord’s redesign.

...and do more than reblog this post about it.

Chronic migraines. Dyslexia. ADHD. Autism. Vision impairment. Visual sensory processing disorder. Colorblind. & Neurotypical. Abled.

These are aspects of people that are affected by Discord’s new update to its color scheme and font, and there very well could be more I didn’t mention. Yes, you read it right, abled people and neurotypical people too. You are not immune to eyestrain.

What are the issues?

  1. A font which is both overly uniform and overly squished, with many letters that have essentially the same silhouette as others and could easily be flipped and look the same as another. ▻ This is dyslexic-unfriendly, as well as generally harder to read and an issue for people with visual impairments who may find that letters bleed together or that their eyes ‘skip’ over letters or words at times.
  2. A color scheme that is so highly saturated that it both immediately draws your attention and also makes you want to immediately look away. ▻ This is generally unfriendly, affecting people with sensory issues the most (ADHD/Autism, migraines, processing disorders), but it’s also colorblind-unfriendly. Due to the differences between the colors being exclusively the part that changes the named color (hue; “green” vs “blue”) instead of both that and the colors being different intensities (saturation; “neon green” vs “leaf green”), they look practically identical.

Aren’t there more? No. This is pretty much all that was changed.

Discord changed TWO THINGS and pretty much managed to land every single person possible to genuinely hurt with a visual design change that doesn’t add or remove any elements. Including abled and neurotypical people!!!

Discord is currently a good number of people’s lifeline and way to connect with others. And with this change, they just made using their app hurt. They know that we can’t leave their app without leaving our friends and communities behind. They know that if they can just sweep this under the rug, they won’t have to do a thing.

...So we can’t let them.

Why would Discord do this?

It’s actually fairly simple. Discord was hemorrhaging money from its very conception. Discord only exists because investors think it’ll make money in the future. If Discord doesn’t do as well, investors will push to make it “better” or they’ll drop their funding. Discord was probably forced into this situation, they probably knew exactly what would happen.

We have to show their investors that Discord was right.

What can we do to fix this?

DON’T:

  • Reply to Discord’s tweet about the design change. ▻ It gives Discord more attention, and if any complaints are acknowledged they are directed to Discord’s accessibility forums.
  • ONLY post on Discord’s accessibility forums. ▻ It gives Discord stats to work with, but it also means the outcry isn’t public. We need everyone to see this, not just Discord.

DO:

  • Reblog this post. ▻ Spreads the awareness, and all.
  • Retweet, reply to, and/or like this tweet: https://twitter.com/KarklesMarx/status/1393223369571586053 ▻ This tweet is part of our and our friends’ initiative to get this big and get this public.
  • Make your own posts about it on different social medias. ▻ Tumblr, Twitter, Discord servers, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, whatever ground you have, use it. You can help make this change too.
  • Find other people doing the same thing. ▻ One initiative is never enough. Look for other people making posts like these and boost their posts too.
  • IF YOU KNOW ANOTHER LANGUAGE, MAKE POSTS OF YOUR OWN BOOSTING IT IN OTHER LANGUAGES. ▻ Please. There are probably a lot of people we haven’t reached because this is an all-English post.

Wait, don’t you have pictures of what’s going on?

We do. They’re under the cut, to prevent causing issues for people reading the post.

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maounosekai

That was… quite a shock…

Daft Punk’s music is one of those that greatly gave us bardic inspiration to work on our comic and in making scifi and mecha art. Interstella 5555 in particular, holds a very special place in our hearts.

It’s heartbreaking that they have to part ways, but, we wish them all the best!

Thank you very much for the amazing music, and for the inspiration!

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cannibalgh0st
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Guys am sorry for all the Daft Punk content I've been reblogging but-

They're truly the first electronic music I got into back in the 2000s! I remember watching their animated videos on old school Toonami back in 2002-2003. I think even before that when MTV actually played music! They've always been part of my early life when getting into anime and videogames.

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A huge part of my childhood was listing to Daft Punk and going into other worlds in my head because of their music. Whatever they do now in life I hope Guy and Tom keep being amazing artists and keeping doing it right.

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And you know what- when I was a very unhealthy person and doing bad substances, Daft Punk always brought me to a happy and safe place. Never any harsh vibes and they really made me feel the music. Now being clean for the past 4 years I can still listen to their music and still feel what they gave me. Nothing but positive feelings from their art.

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Thank you Daft Punk for being part of my life and being my Superheroes✨💜🎹🎶💙🎧💿🖥