Support Forums: No visual indication for visited links

[SergeyBiryukov]

At the moment, regular and visited links are displayed in the same color​.

Is that intentional, or just something we didn't get around to fixing yet?

Before the upgrade, visited links were displayed in a different color, and bbPress 1.x used to append ?replies=X to topic URLs so that topics with new replies were no longer marked as visited.

[samuelsidler]

@mapk: Want to weigh in here?

[mapk]

Right now we're using the ​WP blue for the links. I tried adding the Medium Blue as the visited color and it looks something like this:

Top two links are "visited" while the bottom two are default. My assumption here is the two blues we use are not contrasting enough for text?

Contrasted with the footer links which still use an older blue.

[SergeyBiryukov]

#3897 was marked as a duplicate.

[dufresnesteven]

At the very least, we should be using the -visited variable.

[dd32]

2569.diff​ seems like a good first move here, I'm not sure why we're overriding the global wp4 styling though.. If we want to change link colours site-wide for consistency, we should just rely upon it's colours.

[dd32]

In 9605:

Support: Use the color__link-visited variable for visited link colours in the forums.

Props dufresnesteven.
Fixes #2569.