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The reason is that the .post-text class, to which the "real" post belongs, has a :visited pseudo-class for links which alters their colour.
When you are editing, the edited text appears in a div of class wmd-preview, which does not alter the colour of visited links.
It may be that this feature is by design. It may be that the wmd-preview class should alter ...
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Yes, the colors for the HNQ have changed. But visited and unvisited links are different colors for me on main, so I need to ask: Have you clicked any of those links?
I checked the Wayback Machine for August 16 on the main site and it shows this:
This isn't a particular surprise, since it was announced ages ago that there would be changes to themes (among ...
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I am unaware of a recent change. My browser presents two colors for links in that sidebox. Visited links are #555. Unvisited links are #333. They are hard to differentiate visually. Here is the relevant CSS:
.question-hyperlink, .answer-hyperlink {
color: #333;
line-height: 1.3;
margin-bottom: 1.2em;
}
.question-hyperlink:visited, .answer-...
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