GitHubIssueDetail Closed issues message color

[calebcartwright]

GitHub's experience tiers have switched from displaying closed issues as red to purple (e.g. see our own closed issues https://github.com/badges/shields/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed), ostensibly to avoid categorically connoting the failed/rejected/etc. theme of red.

I'm wondering if we should do the same for our issue status badge (PRs will remain the same since they already differentiate between merged/rejected) and curious what others think. I confess I'm still on the fence myself, but think I'm leaning towards changing to purple

[paulmelnikow]

I'd lean toward changing them too.

[chris48s]

yeah I reckon change it

[calebcartwright]

Sounds like sufficient consensus to me, will take a look at implementing later today. Do we think this will be one of those things that'll need a query param for toggling between red/purple in order to satiate those preferring to maintain the red?

[chris48s]

I think we can just YOLO it