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polarcubs's avatar

Did the PHP world just went dark?

Why is everything having a darker tone in PHP today?

Laracasts is spotting a darker red. The composer picture at https://getcomposer.org/ now shows a darker musician

What is going on?

Edit: I just saw the composer musician change from a very dark skin to a brown skin, refresh and it is back to dark again. Does the picture change according to load on their servers or is today some sort of special day?

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JeffreyWay's avatar
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The Composer guy has a few different skin tones. Refresh the page a couple times.

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polarcubs's avatar

@JeffreyWay wow. All my visits to composer website for the past 1 year always show me the white guy. This is actually the first time I noticed something different!

Is it truly random or it shows different colours due to some parameters such as how many people are updating their packages right now?

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polarcubs's avatar

Haha silly me for seeing patterns when none existed.

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