Ask HN: Why has the HN theme changed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25535332

by dreamer7 • 6 years ago

7 18 6 years ago

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There's a darker orange banner and alternating numbers are coloured! It's a bit distracting

rendx2• 6 years ago

The contrast is too small in the navigation bar now, very hard to read the black on dark red unless I turn the brightness up very high. And the coloring of the numbers doesn't really do much good either, I agree.

ColinWright• 6 years ago

If you have enough karma you can change your topcolor ... the color of your nav banner.

rendx2• 6 years ago

I can, but only when logged in. I still have this weird habit of letting my browser clear cookies when I close tabs, and using multiple devices that do so. For example, I am never logged in on my phone, I just use it for reading.

Also, I don't know the numbers but I bet there are a multitude more visitors and readers than active participants on HN, so the defaults are very relevant.

DoreenMichele• 6 years ago

It's a Christmas theme. I think they leave it up only 24 hours? I'm not sure.

You can change your top bar color. Mine is not the standard, so I forgot they did something to the top bar. I only have the alternating colored numbers.

dreamer7• 6 years ago

Ah! That's a relief to know. Thanks!

max_• 6 years ago

I thought I had landed on a new feature. Lol

gregjor3• 6 years ago

This seems to be a bigger problem than just HN. Several of my neighbors put distracting lights on their houses without considering color theory. I noticed some green and red decorations at the grocery store too, clashing with the usual white/blue theme.

I had planned to spend Friday catching up on HN but after two minutes with these colors my eyes starting watering. Who decides to make these arbitrary changes?

I'm developing a hypothesis (which I will eventually describe in a Medium post) that these color changes and attempts at decoration coincide with certain days of the year, but I haven't quite worked out the pattern yet.

aosaigh• 6 years ago

Interesting theory. I'd like to add some further data points. I received a number of messages through various communication channels today encouraging me to celebrate and be merry. This is very unusual as I am not a person who enjoys merriment nor do I receive regular correspondence from my circle of peers. Further investigation is required.

krapp2• 6 years ago

It's likely some kind of wide-scale PSYOPS program similar to MKULTRA at play across all sectors of media and society. The military industrial social media pharmaceutical complex, compromised by Chinese Communist Party controllers, has clearly replaced one or more of your peers with doppelgangers intent on manipulating your emotions in ways that encourage the production of seratonin and endorphines, numbing your perception and making you easier to control. Every social media platform is just an NSA Skinner box whose purpose is to control and manipulate your every thought and action in order to manufacture consent for America's constant endless wars and crimes against humanity.

This is clearly the final push by the Biden campaign to steal the election for the Illuminati and install the One World Order. The constant, droning repitition of facile chants and slogans in every store and on every streetcorner, the sudden presence of Occult symbols, weird rituals involving children sitting on the laps of strange old men, jarring and distracting color schemes everywhere, and everyone's behavior coordinating as if they were drones. It's so similar to Nazi indoctrination that it's truly chilling. We're in the final phases of the Left's Orwellian takeover. This will be the inevitable and intended result of cancel culture - soon the BLM shock troops will fill the streets and the snows will run red with Christian blood.

And no one is even talking about Hunter Biden's briefcase. Coincidence? I THINK NOT.

st1x7• 6 years ago

I require an explanation for the these red and green colors showing up on the 25th of December!

Merry Christmas HN. :)

booyah_achieved• 6 years ago

Lmfao! This really is the most "HN" thread I've ever seen. Merry Christmas, all.

dang2• 6 years ago

Keep in mind that this is a highly international site and thus there are many users who aren't thinking in terms of Christmas and have no idea of the color associations.

anotheryou• 6 years ago

     /* ==UserStyle==
     @name           no cristmas for hn
     @namespace      github.com/openstyles/stylus
     @version        1.0.0
     @description    removes hn cristmas decorations
     @author         anotheryou
     ==/UserStyle== */
     @-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") {
      /* Insert code here... */
      .title .rank {
       color: rgb(128, 128, 128) !important;
      }
      #hnmain > tbody:first-of-type > tr:first-of-type > td {
       background-color: #ff6600 !important;
      }
     }

bjourne• 6 years ago

To piss off color blind people! :P

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