Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3389605

by zeratul • 15 years ago

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david927• 15 years ago

Merry Christmas everyone!

ORioN63• 15 years ago

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

brudgers• 15 years ago

Peace on earth and good will to all, unconditionally.

sneak• 15 years ago

Personally, I'd like a Winnebago. Burgundy interior.

pandemicsyn• 15 years ago

Heh, think I actually prefer this color scheme.

Happy Holidays!

switz• 15 years ago

I like it other than the red bar at the top.

tokenadult• 15 years ago

The Christmas color scheme changes the top color on the comment submission form, but doesn't change a user-set top color on the main page.

moonlighter2• 15 years ago

Just noticed that too. Nice touch! Happy holidays to all fellow hackers.

moonlighter2• 15 years ago

... and painters ;)

resnamen2• 15 years ago

I thought that the red banner was a call to arms for SOPA or something. After I noticed that the article numbers were alternating red/green, my blood pressure went down a few points. :)

Aqua_Geek• 15 years ago

I didn't even realize the alternating article numbers. Bah humbug to colorblindness.

aiscott• 15 years ago

ditto that. Most of the time I don't notice the effects of red-green color deficiency, but whenever someone wants to differentiate between A and B with colors, inevitably it's red/green.

Not much to do about it with xmas colors though. Bah humbug to poinsettias.

wxl24life• 15 years ago

I love this alternating-color feature, it's much easier for me to browse news titles, hope it will be kept for long in future.

miles_matthias• 15 years ago

Happy Holidays to my hacker family! This was my first year really contributing to posts and discussions and it's been incredibly rewarding. Thanks everyone!

ryanbraganza• 15 years ago

Dupe: submitted 366 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2034624

Merry Christmas!

kurikintoki• 15 years ago

It's better if you put white characters in the red banner:) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!!

jetsnoc• 15 years ago

Merry Christmas fellow hackers!

dekz2• 15 years ago

Merry Christmas from Down Under.

CoffeeDregs2• 15 years ago

In re: "Christmas from Down Under" (and the southern hemisphere in general): I always think it's a trip that y'all are in the peak of summer at Christmas time. We have all kinds of songs, rituals, artifacts, whatever that derive from the fact that it's cold outside: I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas; tinsel on christmas trees to simulate icicles; drinking Eggnog.

Question: do you Christmas bits reflect that it's winter outside somewhere else or do you have a separate bunch of Christmas bits to reflect that it's summer during your Christmas?

dekz2• 15 years ago

I honestly cannot speak for everyone, of course we have our own Aussie Christmas carols with your reindeers replaced with kangaroos which to me seem more to be satire. But we have still been Nothern-hemispherized in the traditional christmas sense. Our decorations have snow, every figurine is rugged up etc. I could send you a picture of my christmas tree, it would be indistinguishable from your generic tree.

It surely doesn't snow in all parts of the Northern Hemispher and I guess you can draw similarities to that. The funny thing is, for more Christmas's then I can remember, it has actually been quite wet and stormy, today it is beautiful and sunny.

pasbesoin• 15 years ago

Making a guess as to the time zone of HN's server. ;-)

mwk• 15 years ago

Merry Chrismas new friends.

jimminy• 15 years ago

This was making me feel like there was something wrong with my eyes. It took me about a minute to figure out it was the site and not me; I didn't figure it out until I spotted the article numbers.

The contrast in the bar is really low, so I can't wait until it's not Christmas any longer.

floatingatoll• 15 years ago

pg, can we have white text instead of black text on the red background?

notspanishflu• 15 years ago

Merry Christmas - Feliz Navidad

hub_• 15 years ago

It makes the text in it hard to read for me. Maybe a better contrast?

ElliotH• 15 years ago

Happy Christmas all! Enjoyed my second year immensely with you guys.

jarin• 15 years ago

Merry Christmas from an atheist! ;)

And Happy Holidays to the rest!

meanJim• 15 years ago

Merry Christmas! Thanks for all the great articles

tlammens2• 15 years ago

Phew, my monitor is not broken. Happy holidays!

_gd3l• 15 years ago

Merry Christmas, Hanukkah (or however you spell it), Kwanzaa, Festivus, and the New Year!

sp332• 15 years ago

If the red bothers you, go to your profile page and set the "topcolor" to something that you like better. (This might require a certain karma level, not sure.)

tlammens2• 15 years ago

It seems very weird that you need a high karma level for such a feature, no?

tyrelb• 15 years ago

Merry Christmas pg & the YC crew!

imd23• 15 years ago

Merry Christmas Hackers! from Uruguay.

pace• 15 years ago

First, I thought Reddit isn't the most ugliest site on earth anymore. Then, I thought HN's CSS file is broken when I saw the darkred navbar. Finally, I thought the green and red numbers stand for raising and falling posts.

HN is my favorite site but this Chistmas version shows again PG's modest design skills. PG, I'm sure that there many HN users (including me) who would love to redesign HN—just put it on Crowdspring or 99design and insist on keeping the HN orange. I promise you'll get tons of great designs keeping Y Combinator's core/identity.

gruseom• 15 years ago

What? The minimal, tasteful, uncluttered design of HN is one of the top reasons why it has been such an unqualified success.

captain_mars2• 15 years ago

Hey OP, do they have Christmas on your planet too? ;-) Small galaxy!

captain_mars2• 15 years ago

Er, I was referring to your Starcraft-inspired name, not to my name. :-)

happyfeet• 15 years ago

Merry Christmas to all. :)

omaranto• 15 years ago

Maybe my monitor is miscalibrated or something, but the red bar looks too dark and rusty, not cheery and christmassy at all.

Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too

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