From 58815b642e53a8502f63e4ebdee5375a4b680472 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elvyra <88881326+EepyElvyra@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 21:53:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] RoleColorEverywhere: only colour sent messages (ignore
 pending/failed) (#3895)

Co-authored-by: V <vendicated@riseup.net>
---
 src/plugins/roleColorEverywhere/index.tsx | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/plugins/roleColorEverywhere/index.tsx b/src/plugins/roleColorEverywhere/index.tsx
index 7d71444b9..5101df86a 100644
--- a/src/plugins/roleColorEverywhere/index.tsx
+++ b/src/plugins/roleColorEverywhere/index.tsx
@@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ export default definePlugin({
             const { messageSaturation } = settings.use(["messageSaturation"]);
             const author = useMessageAuthor(message);
 
+            // Do not apply role color if the send fails, otherwise it becomes indistinguishable if the message is sent
+            if (message.state !== "SENT") return;
+
             if (author.colorString != null && messageSaturation !== 0) {
                 const value = `color-mix(in oklab, ${author.colorString} ${messageSaturation}%, var({DEFAULT}))`;