I'm not sure if this is a Lemmy thing or an app thing but when I look at my comments/ posts on my profile some of these are a different colour. What does this mean?
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You mean the lines left to the comments? That's just to illustrate thread depth.
I don't think it's a question of the thread-depth line indicator.
If I'm understanding @TheShitAbyss's question, I see the same thing in some threads, where some comments have a plain white background, and others have a pale yellow background. (The colouring may be theme dependent. I haven't investigated that, but suffice to say that there are sometimes two different background colours on posts' comments.)
At first I thought it had to do with commenters coming from local instance (lemmy.ca) or other, remote instance, but that doesn't seem to bear out.
Then I thought it might be an indicator of top-level comment vs. reply comment, but in that post linked above, while most top-level comments are white, at least one has the yellow background (I sorted by Hot). There are replies to top-level comments also in both colours, in some cases even same-level replies to a comment, where two adjacent same-level replies have different backgrounds.
Here's a snippet/screenshot:
(Edit: well, darn. That screenshot doesn't serve much purpose because it's being resized down and I don't know how to circumvent that. It's just a 778x941 48KB static gif uploaded to an image hosting site with a Do Not Resize My Upload option. So I'm assuming the resizing is happening on lemmy.ca server-side. Oh well. I refer interested readers to the post linked above, where this screenshot comes from.)
I'm not great at pattern detection. If there is a pattern and someone wants to crack it, or already knows what the colours mean because it's blatantly obvious (or even explained somewhere(!)), I'm all ears.
Mhm when I open the link, either in dark or light mode I can't see those pattern :/
I have added an image example. In one of the comments my name is green but in the others it isn't.
You mean the lines left to the comments? That's just to illustrate thread depth.
I don't think it's a question of the thread-depth line indicator.
If I'm understanding @TheShitAbyss's question, I see the same thing in some threads, where some comments have a plain white background, and others have a pale yellow background. (The colouring may be theme dependent. I haven't investigated that, but suffice to say that there are sometimes two different background colours on posts' comments.)
This post has examples: [Lemmy.ca Discussion] What should we do about Lemmit.online.
At first I thought it had to do with commenters coming from local instance (lemmy.ca) or other, remote instance, but that doesn't seem to bear out.
Then I thought it might be an indicator of top-level comment vs. reply comment, but in that post linked above, while most top-level comments are white, at least one has the yellow background (I sorted by Hot). There are replies to top-level comments also in both colours, in some cases even same-level replies to a comment, where two adjacent same-level replies have different backgrounds.
Here's a snippet/screenshot:
(Edit: well, darn. That screenshot doesn't serve much purpose because it's being resized down and I don't know how to circumvent that. It's just a 778x941 48KB static gif uploaded to an image hosting site with a Do Not Resize My Upload option. So I'm assuming the resizing is happening on lemmy.ca server-side. Oh well. I refer interested readers to the post linked above, where this screenshot comes from.)
I'm not great at pattern detection. If there is a pattern and someone wants to crack it, or already knows what the colours mean because it's blatantly obvious (or even explained somewhere(!)), I'm all ears.
Mhm when I open the link, either in dark or light mode I can't see those pattern :/