Monitoring Seats

On the seat map, taken seats are blue and the seats you're monitoring are purple. Those two colours are almost indistinguishable if you have red-green colour blindness — which is why the state no longer rests on colour alone.

The gold ring — nothing to turn on

Every seat you're monitoring carries a gold ring around it. It's there for everyone, in every mode, on every device. Even when the two fills look identical to you, the ring is what tells you which seats are yours.

Turn on the colour-blind friendly palette

Go to Profile → Accessibility and switch on Colour-blind friendly palette. It changes two things:

• Monitored seats turn amber instead of purple, which separates them clearly from the blue of taken seats.
• The demand map switches to a four-shade ramp picked so no two shades collide under any of the common types of colour blindness. The normal map uses six shades; four is the most that stay reliably apart, so the setting trades one step of detail for shades you can actually tell apart.

The gold ring stays either way — the setting adds to it, it never replaces it.

The setting follows your code

It's saved against your SeatDrop code, so it carries to any device where you enter that code, and it survives reinstalling the app. On a device that hasn't claimed a code yet, it's remembered on that device until it does.

Reading the demand map without colour

Whether or not you turn the palette on, the demand map's legend spells out the exact watcher-count range each shade covers, so the numbers are always there to fall back on. See Understanding the demand map.