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Hey there sanguineroyal.

Wow I pressed enter before finishing my message (thought shift+enter would let me enter new lines, guess not). I hope you enjoy your degree! I did, I focused on psychophysics and sensory/cognitive psychology in my third year (bachelor degrees are 3 years in Australia, with honours making up a 4th year). I'm quite impressed by your custom graphics like stickers and things.

Not sure if just me but a few of your homepage and other pages do this "double load" thing, where it looks like it refreshes after trying to load once. Do you see that?

I do, it's because my website isn't actually hosted on neocities, lol. I just have pages on neocities that redirect to the "actual" page if that makes sense?

It makes sense but why do you need to do that? Doesn't the page load more efficiently hosting on here?

Neocities doesnt have some functionalities i’m looking to use such as php.

Fair enough!

Those buttons link to the source: https://rainy.gay/pride/pridebuttons they're free to use

Oh thanks, on my PC those buttons on your page linked to "https://rainy.gay/", maybe you could direct link to that page instead?

The other thing I wanted to add with the accessibility post which is something I've noticed, and I actually find very disorienting is how a lot of people's websites change layout from page to page. But I was thinking of making my own a11y post at some point so I guess that's one of the things I'll mention :) really like your site design btw (Also the Punk Wasp link in your blog post doesn't lead to a blog post)

Hello this is my other site! :3

You actually don't need to code a toggle! A simple prefers-color scheme light/dark media query with some colors switched around works fine :> I provided some links on how to do it underneath that guideline, kalechips shows how to do it quickly! https://kalechips.net/stuff/snippets?p=darkmode

also thanks, I'll fix the link when I get to my laptop!!

Thanks! Took awhile for me to figure out why it wasn't working but Kalechip's code doesn't work unless you enclose the :root {} inside the media query... which is what they've done on their site. You can use the Dev Tools which has a Light and Dark mode switch to test if it's working.

Haven't implemented it yet but I will.

I added the media query to my site today.

Thanks cc! I saw you're also in Australia (Brisbane here) and use a screen reader to test your site which is awesome. I still need to make further adjustments to my site. Will definitely add your button to my site (Links page) it seems like we have a lot in common plus your site design is awesome.

yeah im a melbourne-dweller myself, nice to see fellow aussies on here :) thanks so much for the kind words!

interestingly in css you can only apply it to html, it doesnt work applied to body (i may be wrong tho, i didnt dig too deep)

These are really great, thank you. I looked up a bit more about it and it looks like you can use media queries to adjust colour schemes with prefers-color-scheme.

I'm still kinda new at javascript 😅

I'm glad to be of inspiration!! But I'll have to be honest, I'm just as fresh to JS :'D I had someone else make most of that script for me hehe QwQ I do want to learn so I could give it a look but I'll likely be unable to help much ;;

Well if you feel like taking a look at it send me an email - I feel like it'd be easier to share the code that way (not ready to be published). Otherwise I'll just have another go at it another day so don't stress.