Why different color usernames

On the right side of my OGS home screen, under ‘Chat with friends’ is a list of usernames. Some are gold and some are blue. What is the significance of these colors?

Gold are OGS supporters (payed membership).

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Blue means that those players are online (they have an OGS tab open - this doesn’t mean that they are at their computer).

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There’s also green for professionals, red for AGA staff, gray for bots, and purple for moderators and administrators

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Although it’d be quite hard to get the first three to friend you!

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red for AGA staff

Aren’t they more a reddish orange? Perhaps I’m misremembering.

They are. On all my screens at least.

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Yeah, you’re right. I hadn’t actually looked at them that closely :sweat_smile:

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Some might even contend that they are brown, but it’s a controversial issue.

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Well brown is just dark orange so it can be both.

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from inspecting, images from google search.

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according to the xkcx color survey the color is named orange most of the times.

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Thanks HHG. I thought that the little dot to the left of the name indicated online status – when it’s green I figured that meant online. So if that’s not it… then I have another question – what do those dots signify?

Thanks for the informative replies everyone.

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Yes you are correct. On a game board, the green or blue (depending on your colour pallet choices) circle indicates whether they are online with a tab open to that game.

What this general thread is about is some people have an entirely different coloured name, as in the characters themselves are a different colour.

Hope that clears it up a bit for you.