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There's already a question for this, I tried to "bump" it with a comment, but it didn't show up on the Active Page. Can we setup a different style for links on the Server Fault page to make the link stand out from the rest of the text, like meta.serverfault.com has?

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Hyperlinks are often used in line with questions or answers to provide references or "further reading" information. The idea of textually mentioning it like further reading: [some title](http://some/link) or just adding bold formatting adds unnecessary roughness to the task of composing an answer and clutters up the text unnecessarily. In the current state, hyperlinks which go in line with the text hardly stand out at all, it is quite easy to miss them:

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Having them at least dot-underlined like here on Meta would be a great improvement already.

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Apparently not much has happened here for about a year, so I decided to bump the question by editing. – syneticon-dj May 9 at 12:59
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Since the beginning of SF I've thought that our link-style is somewhat unreadable. I find links, especially followed links, are not distinctive enough from the normal text style to be uniformly distinguished when reading. I miss them frequently. Less so now that I've been here a while, but more often when I was new.

The dotted-underline of Meta is very nice, and I appreciate it.

The link-styles on every one of the SE sites I've been to have been noticeably more distinctive than SF's.

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So can we have it changed then? Pretty please? – syneticon-dj May 9 at 12:58
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You can make links bold or italic or bold italic yourself.

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This would definitly work with anything that I wanted to have stand out in my own posts. But some times people will post questions and include links in their troubleshooting that if you don't mouse over the whole post or look really closely to see that it is a link, I frequently will miss. It's just a suggestion, if that's what is expected for updating links, I can do that for my own posts. – Nixphoe Jul 12 '11 at 14:23
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The blue stands out pretty well to me. I don't think it really needs to be changed.

No offense intended, have you ever taken a color blindness test?

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I think it depends on the monitor as well. At a couple of my sites, I have #@$@ monitors, and the links are hard to see. They show up fine at home though. I do like the link style on Meta.SF though – Holocryptic Jul 12 '11 at 21:52
I'm guessing the site was designed with a beautiful 27" Apple display that does near perfect colour reproduction, whereas in the real world we're using shitty glossy laptop screens, early-model 12ms LCDs and 24" LEDs with the brightness turned up so high you can turn the lights in the room off. And that's just what I've got sitting on my desk. – Mark Henderson♦ Jul 12 '11 at 23:26
Those glossy displays have beautiful colors; it's the matte displays that mute all the tones and suck the life out of the screen. – Chris S♦ Jul 12 '11 at 23:44
I visit SF from a number of different computers, with a range of monitors (including laptops). I don't find the links very clear on any of them. And yes, I have had a colour blindness test. Perhaps you have your colours set to abnormally bright. – John Gardeniers Jul 13 '11 at 8:01
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