Maybe there’s a logical reason behind it, but I always fear I’ve accidentally downvoted someone when I haven’t.

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    It’s counterintuitive IMO. Cool, calm colors = good. Warm, angry colors = bad.

    I realize Reddit used orange, but this ain’t Reddit.

    (Edit: Currently using Connect for Android 1.0.88)

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    I used RiF and didn’t even remember it having colors there and didn’t notice it was different here

    Edit: I just noticed this is a community from a specific lemmy app that I don’t use. I use Jerboa and ot also have blue upvotes red downvotes.

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      Also, absolute irony, old.reddit let subs customize the upvote and downvote buttons. So I basically never experienced a consistent subset of colors except on “lazy” subs.

      Reddit on the whole was uglier without the free form css.

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    That’s so funny to me. I’ve been irritated by my downvotes on lemmy but I never really knew why. I’ve gone back numerous times to verify that I didn’t accidently upvote a comment I meant to downvotes, but it never occurred to me that my monkey brain is just so used to the reddit colors that it got confused

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    because voyager is based on Apollo for iOS and that’s how christian had his app colors. i didn’t even know reddit used orange / red for upvotes till this post lol used Apollo for way too many years

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      Did it? I used Apollo since release and my upvotes were always orange/red and downvotes blue. I even went back and looked at saved screenshots just to make sure I wasn’t crazy.

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        Yep same here just checked google to see if I was crazy, upvotes were orange. My email app and Apollo had collapse/archive swipes in opposite directions so instead of collapsing a thread I’d upvote the comment all the time, can’t forget the giant orange bar that showed up

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      Not on my iOS at least. It was always the opposite of here in Voyager and I’m still always confused.

      Was this something Christian changed at some point or that followed some theme settings, making the experience different between users?

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    Yeah, idk, I keep thinking I’ve downvoted something when I actually updated it. It’d be nice to have a way to swap them back

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    If it were green = upvote and red = downvote it’d be fine, but blue = upvote and orange = downvote is really throwing me off.

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    Yes it’s bothersome after a decade of using Reddit. I wish there was an option to swap colors.

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    I really like it. It reminds me of greenlight = go ahead, red light = stop (posting that kind of content).

    Makes it easier to stop using the downvote as a disagree button.

    I also like how upvotes and downvotes are public here.