I Can Now manufacture FriendFeed As Ugly As I Want

When FriendFeed launched new themes back in June, I wanted but one feature: The ability to create my own. Today, I got my wish.

Despite being purchased by Facebook for close to $50 million earlier that week, FriendFeed is still rolling out new features. Today brings customizable themes, which allow you to tweak your template to construct it as pretty or as ugly as you would like. Naturally, I’m going for ugly, as I stated my desire to imitate the excellent “Eggplant Orange Juice With Blood” theme I created for Gmail when that service launched customizable themes.

So far, my best effort (below) is called “Dictionary.com Cheer Carrot Theme” after my new favorite website. To FriendFeed’s credit, they construct it pretty hard

to construct a truly ugly design, like you can easily do on Gmail. One reason is that theren’t are as many variables to change the colors of.

One interesting note about these themes is that by default, you will see other users’ themes when you go on their profiles. You will additionally see the themes that admin’s create in rooms that they manage. You can turn that off, and choose to only see your theme, in the settings.

And just for comparison sake, the old Gmail design I did:

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