Ask HN: Why does GitHub have a black bar?

I don't understand why they're changing anything, I always looked up to GitHub's design as one of the best looking and consistent designs on the Internet. The new black bar looks very bland, out of place and definitely worse than previous one. This feels like a change for the sake of it...

mrahmadawais• 9 years ago

It looks pretty odd to me too.

dharness• 9 years ago

The designers at github must be going through some pretty dour times...

victor-li• 9 years ago

If you also dislike the new black navigation bar: https://github.com/victor-li/github-white-navbar

erlich• 9 years ago

I thought someone important had died...

szydan• 9 years ago

That one gave me a good laugh ;-)

scazzy• 9 years ago

Part of design upgrades. A responsive mobile design also coming the way https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830505943800573952

theosp• 9 years ago

https://medium.com/@cwodtke/users-dont-hate-change-they-hate...

flying_sheep• 9 years ago

I thought it was browser rendering error but I was wrong.

I thought it was CSS error but I was wrong.

I thought it was about Trump's act but I was wrong.

How can it be the new design? The title bar should never be the focus of the layout but now it is. It catches our attention before the content which is more important.

chippy• 9 years ago

did it happen around the same time as Topics? I think topics are very useful. Much easier to find related repos than searching through a fork

alevale• 9 years ago

OMG, please tell me they will roll that back, it's stupid but i can't focus anymore on the code, I just see a black bar with a lot of contrast in my screen... It's funny that so many people got the same impression than me, that something was going very very wrong

guruz• 9 years ago

GothHub..

Ask HN: Why does GitHub have a black bar?

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