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Self-hosted instance theme color can incorrectly make other element colors unreadable

(#4064) Bug Closed: Fixed self-hosting ui
by Kenko edited

Reproduction steps

Set a self-hosted instance's theme color to be bright enough that it turns text elements color to black for readability, then observe how it incorrectly changes the color of other elements such as:
  • "GIF" indicator on gifs
  • play buttons on video media
  • self-applied reactions on messages

Expected behaviour

These elements should remain unchanged or be adjusted for better readability with chosen colors

Actual behaviour

These elements are almost impossible to see as they were intended

Build information

Canary Desktop 2026.1015.145307, Web 2026.1015.210822, Windows 11 10.0.26300 (x64), Electron 44.4.1, Chrome 152.0.7977.78, Node 24.21.0, Locale en-US

Platform

Self-hosting

Evidence

I personally observe this with my instance's theme color set to #ccae01 Video media play button: Fluxer_Canary_2026-10-16_01-22-41.png GIF indicators: Fluxer_Canary_2026-10-16_01-24-44.png Reactions: Fluxer_Canary_2026-10-16_01-30-53-2.png
  1. Kenko changed the status from Awaiting confirmation to Fixed
  1. The pull request fluxer#3504 mentions this post Merged

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Comment by Rex
RexSystem 1 vote
Status changed from Needs triage to Awaiting confirmation
Brand colour text, media overlays and own reactions stay readable for any instance colour (fluxerapp/fluxer#3504), in desktop canary 2026.1016.10903, web 2026.1016.10924 and self-hosted 2026.1016.10910
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Comment by Kenko
Kenko OP1 vote Fixed for me
confirmed fixed now! extremely fast fix speed on this, thanks so much!
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