Wedge

The most important thing is that they're representative and consistently used above all else.

Colour has two predominant factors to consider as far as we're concerned: usability and inference.

Usability because it's possible to have UI issues out of colour mismatches - not only pure legibility but I remember an issue that came up in Crimson Editor's development that had to be changed. Specifically, up until it got open sourced, you had tabs and a little lamp indicating whether the file had been saved or not since the last edit: red for unsaved changed, green for no changes since last save. Except that users with red/green colour blindness had real trouble differentiating them. (And R/G colour blindness is the most predominant form, more common in males, too)

Culture issues aren't a huge thing for us but it can be on some things. There was a really good UI overview document I found somewhere that explained it in a bit more depth.[1]

For example on page 43 it has an image that lists a pig, a US-style mailbox, the 'OK' gesture and a Red Cross logo, and goes on to say that the pig is likely offensive to multiple cultures, that US-style mailboxes are uncommon even unknown outside the US, the OK gesture is actually an offensive one in South America and the Red Cross logo is unfamiliar to many and that a cross has no significance to billions of people.[2]

More of interest is the table on page 44 listing different colours and their culture effects, that red for example is a warning colour in our perspective but that other colours see red as a colour of strength, anger or vibrancy. Interestingly the only colour that has positive connotations across the board is green.

Note that this doesn't mean we should change anything that we have, because for the users who will most likely use Wedge, they're in the Western Europe/US group, which generally means we have similar cultural connotations for colour (green = good, red = danger/bad, that sort of thing), but it is worth being aware of it, I find.

1.	http://www.cosc.brocku.ca/~bockusd/3p94/webui1.pdf has the full thing for now, it's well worth a read even though it looks like it's years out of date, because the principles it talks about are still true now.
2.	I think there's a little exaggeration going on here, but the general point is valid.

@ARG, I wouldn't ask for posts to be deleted, simply that I no longer wish to have an account. I've been closing down things where I'd had dealings or debates with SMF team members where trying to argue about the things that are failing in that ecosystem. I think of it as a formal manner of closing the door on the past, so that I can move forward without any ties dragging me back.

Hopefully it will help discourage bringing more of the SMF drama here because frankly I'm fed up to the back teeth of every little thing that need not be a problem then being blown out of proportion by people who have demonstrated every possible way to fuck up a community of people who were happy to contribute their time and energy.

By not having an account at these places, I find myself not dragged in nearly so much to the crap and it doesn't weigh me down; I haven't written a line of PHP in days because I've had so much going on between RL and this crap.

Nope, read the CLA again. The definition of contributed works extends to "documenting the works", i.e almost any post of sm.org can be claimed under that definition if it discusses any aspect of SMF, of using it or mods that work with it.

You know as well as I do that once you signed the CLA you no longer had the right to remove your own posts as I proved a short while ago.

Best decision I ever made was removing my account for a second time. In hindsight I shouldn't even have bothered setting up that account because it hasn't brought me anything but hassle.

Given a joust I've just had with LexArma, I think it's fair to infer that the team did indeed edit the page.

Honestly, though, did you really expect any better from them?

Well, only those with customisation approval access, and admins, can modify that page.

I wonder if there's now going to be claims that you did it...

The claim states that he was sent a PM just before he was logged out, no-one was 'staying up 24/7 to watch him log in' because they were already logged in at the time..