I hear you - there's something to be done there. My initial thought was to stay as close to convention as I could (links are blue!), but as the RECENT list gets long, its definitely gets less scannable.
Thank you for the feedback!
Thank you for the feedback!
The links are blue design from early HTML was meant to highlight links in the context of a paragraph of prose, not a list of link items. "Blue" means something special about the text in the context of the text around it.
In this case, the blue font is distracting because the links are the content. You don't need the blue to help your links "stand out". Because the links are normal text, using a normal palette would be appropriate.
I don't mind some subtle clues that these are links. Underlines, slight grey text. Or even a subtle hover effect. Two cents.
It's quite scannable, but obviously you're doing reverse chrono order so up to you how best to solve the UI issue.