I’ve noticed some of my PoI submissions have descriptions that can be hard to read due to the colour of the text. I live in Ireland and we get a lot of cloudy days with white/grey sky weather. Because of this the white text on the descriptions can be hard to read. I’ve started trying to ensure I take pictures on sunny days or upload additional photographs which can help. But it would be nice if there was an option to toggle the description text colour or click on the text to load it on a standard black on white panel to make it easier to read.
Some PoI are very interesting from various places all over the world. Sometimes I like to read them and some even worthy of keeping in postcards. I’m sure I’m not alone in enjoying that aspect of the game and I like to try put in good and interesting descriptions on my nominations in the hope that others may enjoy them too.
Anyway just leaving this here in case the developers may see this and could add in some options to enhance the readability of the descriptions.
There are a lot of things we’d like to see fixed for the nomination process, but haven’t yet. And being that PoGo and Ingress have split, this most likely won’t get passed on to the Ingress team, just the PoGo team.
Keep in mind that descriptions can be edited after submission from Contribution Management, so you do have an option to go back and check to make sure you have your description how you want it to be.
I do like to read them, if they are interesting, but yes, most people I would assume do not read descriptions.
Sorry, I didn’t get that this was the descriptions already for in-game Wayspots in PoGo, not nominating.
@gsmitheidw Here’s another thing you could do: go to add/edit the description, and you can then see the entire description. While it’s not ideal and you wouldn’t want to edit it if it doesn’t have to be edited, it would allow you to read it more clearly.
Well there might be a wayfarer solution of sorts. If you could push the description down with some sort of filler text it might appear over a darker area of the photo. But would be tricky to achieve well.
Updating the photo to be darker night work but darkening a photo artificially might look terrible
We were told that the PoGO development team was actively monitoring an old thread about Routes but they never engaged beyond communication from the known Wayfarer staff.
There are groups out there for player experience that players can share ideas, but I’m not aware of where they are, how to find them, or how effective they are.
I think you’d be better off (but don’t expect results) by making a bug report or feature performance report through the in-game Support.
In addition to what @Gendgi said, don’t forget that any part of a photo could be light colored. So just pushing down the text to get it away from “grey sky” isn’t really the solution. That might fix it for the photos you encounter most, but it may cause problems for other photos. This needs a more robust solution.
I have seen websites / apps that will check the area the text will be displayed and make an average colour. It will then use this to either display White / Black text.
