The thing is with that.... Iv'e seen people make some stuff up, and the point of having them all listed is so we have something official and set for people to choose from. And when you get those funky colors you may not be used to, it's easier to have to choose between 2-3 possibilities than to figure it out.
Also if we allow people to just type something in, it could really mess up the search functions, as you have to account for typos and the fact that some colors, though the same, are called by different terminology and vary from breed to breed (Chestnut, Gray, Sandy?).
We're trying to keep everything kind of set so we dont run into errors int he future especially with the search function. Until I get all the colors officially listed in the MM, yeah there's going to be a bit of a bump for some people to hop over but, I'm considering not a HUGE issue right at this second, and i'm thinking once the MM really starts being used and gaining in popularity and we do get all those colors in there, that things will run a little smoother.
We're trying to make this as user friendly as possible, which means i'm accommodating a large variety of people. I have a lot of n00bs using the software that are really just starting out in rabbits. Identifying colors can be a real pain. Especially when the same colros vary in terminology from breed to breed. I'd like this to also in a sense get peopel familiar with the breeds they have decided to keep and to educate them on little things like this.
I did like how Evans had all the colors listed when you wanted to input a color, however every color was listed for every breed all the time. I'll admit I was a bit ovrewhelmed as I hadn't even heard of most of them. I wanted to simplify things a bit by only really listing possible colors for that breed to make it a little easier to navigate.
