It can be a lot! Especially from the perspective of a new user switching from a different messaging app. And even if there were (and this is subjective, I know), conversations end up looking like a confetti explosion. There simply aren’t enough distinguishable colors. I’m always subconsciously looking at avatars and names regardless. This happens consistently enough where I can never truly use color as an indicator of the speaker. The fact that I have lots of contacts means that many of my groups have color conflicts where 2+ people have the same color. This is the closest to an official rationale on why this change was made: Signal is great, but there are still some useful features to work on. When colors change, whether through this change or changing palettes, this subconscious verification fails (or gives a false positive). Since color is tied to identity, it can be used to make sure you don't send the wrong message to the wrong person.In particular, it doesn't make sense since everyone's identity in group chats are the same (except arbitrarily colored names).In the same way, having everyone else's identity be the same across chats doesn't make sense.Changing your own "identity" across chats doesn't make sense. You already know what you've written, the important part in a chat is what the other parties are saying. Color is a UI tool used to draw attention to important things.Most importantly, it is not what the user expects. There are several reasons why this change doesn't make sense.
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