I switched to classic view to see if there is any improvement, but still experienced some issues although it took longer to appear. We acknowledge that our responses up to this point have been insufficient.She goes on to say that they have been taking their time and collecting feedback on the redesign, and comments were shut down on threads because they were not able to respond to all of the comments (users are asked to email comments and feedback).She noted that Cassidy’s emails do not represent the opinions of Ravelry as a whole.Cassidy was not in a state to be talking with people, though she does understand that this is no excuse and that the emails that she wrote were hurtful. Many users suffered eye strain and headaches, some nausea and vertigo, some migraines and most worrying of all a few suffered seizures. Consider for a minute the stress that this would cause to a neurotypical person when a site that you’ve used regularly over many years (daily for a lot of users) suddenly changes significantly without warning, and then consider that Ravelry has a large number of neurodiverse users to whom these changes were even more alarming and confusing. The website accessibility conundrum While Ravelry users and other disabled activists maintain that internet accessibility is a right, the vague laws … I am hopeful (naively so?) They paid a lot of money for a lousy redesign.
I feel like the new colors really highlight all the white space and make it difficult to read. She no longer has access to the customer service emails and her Ravelry mail is disabled.In response to people who have asked them to return the site to Classic mode as the default, Jessica said many people have found the new design to be more accessible — particularly in the mobile version — and they decided “switching back to Classic Ravelry would not serve the greatest number of Ravelers.”There will always be detractors any time a new design is unveiled (and I have to admit I don’t love it, though it is an improvement on the super-dated design it had before), it was lauded by some for being cleaner and more readable, but the brightness and high contrast of the design — as well as an animated login screen — have caused eye strain, headaches, (I know there are a lot of people who will say that’s not possible, it’s In response to these reports, Ravelry made changes so that the animation no longer autoplays, users can change their settings to revert to the old design, stop animations from playing, remove drop shadows or automatically increase font sizes.
This means that anyone who is not logged in who follows a link to Ravelry (eg, through the IG app, when using a library computer or anyone without a Ravelry account) will get the migraine-inducing, seizure-causing website. I was going to give some time for them to address the issues but that non apology did it for me. It’s worth noting that after asking whether you had drop shadows turned on or off at the start, every image of the buttons within the survey showed them with drop shadows. I also got rid of the black drop shadows, as I felt they also highlighted the whiteness factor. Trying to change it is challenging, and you have to change it every time you log on. It works considerably better on my smartphone, which I use to access it often, too.I love love love it!
Ravelry has set itself up as the ultimate database and community for fibre crafters over the last decade, but now, for so many people, it’s gone. Like asking for a migraine.