this is not the way to go.

just alternate black background and gray background notes - no outlines. outlines add clutter and look like a design from the 90s or something.

also there should be no color anywhere in the app. everything should be white, black or gray.

the average color of the page ( including text and graphics ) should be 18% or so gray, corresponding to the reflectivity of caucasian skin as well as the paint color that graphics studios are supposed to use on the walls and basically everything else.

if background is dark-ish gray like this any photos posted will look correct with highlights that pop, shadows that look deep and colors that aren't washed out.

if you are unsure just google screen shots of any high end photo or video editing software and see what color scheme they use for the interface. for example here is DaVinci Resolve

and here is Adobe Premire Pro

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different companies - same color scheme. not a coincidence.

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sorry that was "premiere" pro not "premire" pro

also i notice they do use a fair bit of color ...

still i think it is a much cleaner look to have light and dark gray tiles rather than color outlines

colors look childish and cheap like fruity loops

class is clean and understated

I reduced the color down to just the left bar but I wont be able to easily remove the borders. I agree that no borders is better, but its much easier to have borders than to make every component have a different shade of gray

got you.

as a side note it probably took a good minute or two for your note ( the one i'm replying to ) to show up in my notifications after i already saw it in my timeline.

i thought it would never show up in notifications at all and started replying from the timeline but eventually ( maybe 1 - 3 minutes later ) it also showed up in notifications.

yeah, notifications have a bug right now where they will disconnect. so you wont see new notifications till something triggers it to connect to the relays again.