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So, I was asked to post the stuff I was saying in the Discord about trying to find some accessible (contrasting, color-blindness compatible) colors for all the roles. Here's that.

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From Discord:

I think we do have a bit of overlap/convergence on pupley-blue colors.

I'm trying some color-blindness simulating tools, and I'm realizing that red-colorblindness can lead to "purple - red = blue" and a convergence on some bluish colors that are pretty similar.

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  • @backend is a slightly darker purple than @team at the moment.
  • @Documentation and @cmty-pkgs are two blue shades that converge a bit with the purple shades under red-colorblindness.

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We might have to research an overall colorblindness-safe color palette and draw only from those if we're shooting for strong accessibility.

(Or at least I expect this would make finding them faster/easier and harder to mess up.)

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This tool seems really helpful, IMO:

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-accessibility

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Just checking out the tool and seeing what I (and it) can do.

(I started by locking in the purple color that was recently set for @team role here on the Discord, and working around that to find additional, contrasting colors.)

Here are two example palettes that look pretty good (to me) for simulated red/green/blue color-blindnesses, and I checked the first one for greyscale color-blindness and simulated loss-of-contrast viewing (where color and brightness differences are compressed toward a uniform grey.)

(I didn't research what types of color-blindness there are IRL yet, but apparently red/green is the most common, blue blindness is rare, dunno if greyscale-only color-blindness is a thing.)

I'm disappointed it's limited to 5 colors, but it works really well (in terms of its user interface and amount of easily-actionable feedback), so it's a great start, IMO.

Example Palette 1 (click to expand):

#B359F8 #C0EBE6 #1BCAFF #FA8D71 #6FFF3D

Accessible Color Palette 1 - A color wheel showing 5 contrasting colors selected, along with swatches of each color and their RGB Hex values, and variants of the whole palette simulating red, green, blue color-blindness, on the color adobe com tool

Example Palette 2 (click to expand):

#B359F8 #F72070 #074BF7 #F7B920 #39FA6D

Accessible Color Palette 2 - A color wheel showing 5 contrasting colors selected, along with swatches of each color and their RGB Hex values, and variants of the whole palette simulating red, green, blue color-blindness, on the color adobe com tool

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Yea I'm having a lot of doubt though with some of the roles. I know I named them trying to cover all our bases(and a lot of them are solely placeholders until others came up with better names when we scrambled to get everything together).

Like in a ideal world(with renames) I'd suggest these in this order w/renames and different colors if needed. Obviously lumping in Dee's suggestion of the separation that we may not be the same on github in perms:

  • Team
    • Needs rename to reflect experienced and well trusted contributors
  • Admins (Discord)
  • Mods (Discord)
  • Core
  • Documentation
  • Backend
  • Developer (needs rename imo....something more specific would be ideal)
  • Cmty_pkgs (again another I put as a placeholder originally that was a result of overthinking to make sure people didn't confuse w/our core packages)
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • Windows

Now those ARE up for debate but that's my more definitive list imo. Bot roles not included bc these are a given and probably need to be moved to just below admins for sake of what it does w/bots. Just bc it CAN cause issues if any of the original ones are still used, which I doubt for the most part lol

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I dunno about renaming, since less change is better and none of them struck me as needing renaming.

The @team role is what it is, either it refers to folks who do internal deliberations before presenting to the broader group and who are pretty much collectively responsible for admin (i.e. "the team" basically) or it isn't and we shouldn't have the role and go back to managing #team channel the way we were before. Either way, IMO. (Not that I would want go and change it again without everyone agreeing first. Less change unless it's outright broken, IMO.)

Maybe there's some other option I'm not thinking of, but it doesn't all matter a ton. It mostly just think it needs to be functional, which it is currently.

I do think we can get 7 or 8 good distinct colors, though. And we can prefer to use the most similar ones to the existing ones where possible.

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Well I mention the team bit because of what @confused-Techie has mentioned and I think maybe even @Daeraxa? That it being explicitly named team can seem a bit exclusionary and contradictive to it's true nature. But I feel like the list I came up w/in that last post is the one to focus on. Albeit w/out recoloring admins/mods since I feel having team higher up negates it and is a good idea. Mods/Admins are still pingable like I've said a few times so yea.

I just see team as the general ping for help, but ideally people would go for the actual team over that bit. I'm just overthinking and wanting to fix a few things I feel were massive leftovers from my initial rushed setup of the discord and other things....

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I'd warn against scope creep bringing up renaming and new teams during a PR, nothing wrong with it, just makes it harder to keep a solid goal in mind.

As for the other teams, I'm actually very actively against, any kind of coloration to the "Linux", "Windows", and "macOS" roles. If anything it may be prudent to bring up separately about disabling the general public from pinging these roles. I don't think these roles should stand out in any particular way, they already don't appear on the sidebar, and are nearly unused. Except for the rare instance we need to ping it for help in testing something. But as our server grows, there's now far to many people attached to those pings that are not present during the day to day, that the odd time it gets pinged for no reason, it seems to leave a few days of messages asking why they were pinged. So I don't think these roles should stand out at all, in any way, so they shouldn't be included in any kind of re-colorizing.

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# Description

This document serves as a way to group our roles into a logical manner with color designations so things fit better for accessibility reasons. It is part of what goes into `rules-info-channel.md` that is also in this folder.

After reading up on these, head to #role-select and pick up what roles suit you. We're glad to have you here and look forward to your contributions or any support we can provide you!

Admins and support:
- Team - knowledgeable people in the community who have shown they have the projects best interests in mind. they can handle most general questions, however recommend pinging the specific organizational team for your question. (#color-here)
- Admin (discord) - those who run and execute decisions in the community (#color-here)
- Mod (discord) - those who moderate the community in some way or another (#color-here)

Organizational:
- Documentation - for our documentation. This relates to our site and all the documents we handle between it and the pulsar-edit/.github repo (#color-here)
- Backend - API and server related development (#color-here)
- Developer - contributes where they can, not based on topic but availability (#color-here)
- Core - Works on the core editor and all the things that make it tick. (#color-here)
- Packages - our core packages (#color-here)
- Updates - when we post updates you'll get a notification. Consider this ⁠pulsar-announcements and eventually ⁠community-updates (#color-here)
- Community - if you develop a package on your own outside the org and submit it grab this one! We'll try to post updates about development on this soon as this is a upcoming feature in the v2 backend! (#color-here)
OS:
- Windows (#color-here)
- Linux (#color-here)
- MacOS (#color-here)
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# Rules

- Be Kind - This isn't a place for aggression, this is a place to work together to create awesome code.
- Be Respectful - We aim to have a community of accepting individuals. Being respectful includes not making racist, homophobic, or sexist insults. No matter someone's race, gender, sexuality, political affiliation, or experience we all are here together and should be treated with respect.
- No Private Messages - Unless confirmed publicly on the server you should never send private unsolicited messages to any members of this server. The only exception would be to report a sensitive issue to the @Admins or @Moderators. But even then it is recommended to publicly confirm that they are okay with you sending a private message.
- No Advertising - Please no advertisements of products or services independent of organic conversation.
- (recommended) Match your display name to what is on github. This helps for us assigning you to a team on there and allows us to contact you better for updates and concerns on contributions. This is ***NOT*** a strict requirement but it is extremely helpful in operations here.


# Conduct

https://github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md


# Contributing

If you are a new contributor to Pulsar and want to know how to help, feel free to interact on the server or GitHub. But if you'd like to just start programming please read our new contributor help guide. https://github.com/pulsar-edit/.github/blob/main/project-birth/CONTRIBUTING-DURING-START.md


# Roles

<!-- Contents for this part are in the roles-and-colors file in this directory. Please refer to that for the content of this section when pasting into discord or elsewhere. -->

# Invite

Invite link to the server: https://discord.gg/7aEbB9dGRT