[chat] Highlight text instead of username

theowest

osu! Alumni

Joined January 2009

Topic Starter

theowest 2013-06-01T03:05:24+00:00

Instead of turning the usernames green when being highlighted, I'm suggesting to have the actual words you’re highlighted by and time stamp turn green.

or if that isn't considered

or

Many irc clients turn text green when being highlighted:

Benefits:
-You’ll see their true colour.
-You’ll quickly see which highlight was triggered (for people who have multiple added).

Related requests: t/118073 & t/122081

XPJ38

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XPJ38 2013-06-01T03:35:59+00:00

As far as I am concerned, the current green username highlight helps me to quickly find which line has triggered a notification, especially in long conversations like in #osu or even #multiplayer where I just have to scroll and look for a green username on the left of the screen.

A small star would be too discreet to notice, especially if the channel is filled with /me or /np commands, and it would be less convenient to: look for a green text in the whole chat screen, go back to the start of the line and then actually read the line, if you know what I mean

I may not have expressed myself very well, but anyway:

tl;dr I would support if you proposed to highlight the highlighting words on top of highlighting the username.

theowest

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theowest 2013-06-01T13:22:16+00:00

XPJ38 wrote:
As far as I am concerned, the current green username highlight helps me to quickly find which line has triggered a notification, especially in long conversations like in #osu or even #multiplayer where I just have to scroll and look for a green username on the left of the screen.

A small star would be too discreet to notice, especially if the channel is filled with /me or /np commands, and it would be less convenient to: look for a green text in the whole chat screen, go back to the start of the line and then actually read the line, if you know what I mean

How about turning the time stamp green and leaving the username yellow:

or

Many irc clients turn text green when being highlighted:

lkwr

lkwr 2013-06-01T13:31:29+00:00