Imagine you are laying in your bed at night and you decide to update the wonderful app called Wattpad because there are some wonderful writers on there and its such a nice community! After the app loads you are created by a bright bundle of cold white light in the middle of your dark room. You are blinded for a few second before you can finally the immensely bright white new look of the app.
@Wattpad , you might say we are all just whining and making a big deal out of nothing but it IS a big problem. A reading app (f.e iBooks) needs to have a soft background color so the background color and the black letters do not contrast that much until they hurt your eyes. The previous colours from Wattpad were more sepia and warm, really nice and relaxing for your eyes to read at. But now the difference between the color of the bg and the letters is so big that it is not relaxing to read.
I can somewhat understand you want a modern and clean look (hens the white and bright orange) but you should maybe think about what the purpose of the app is. Reading right? Well personally i don't like black letters on a white background, like i said above, it is not relaxing to read. Maybe you thought about the purpose of the app, i wouldn't know because i am not on the Wattpad team.
I dont mind the new logo, it looks nice but its the colours that are wrong. Wattpad was a warm and cozy place you could sneak on and read in the middle of the night but now it turned into a bright and cold place where reading is nearly painful to your eyes, certainly at night when most people are active.
I think (as so many other platforms) this 'new look complaining' will go over eventually and i have the feeling you will jsut wait until it's over. Please dont. Listen to your audience and actually update useful things that the people who use the app would like to see
Thanks for reading <3
Astro