Hacker News goes Christmas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408253

by teej • 18 years ago

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I just had my color scheme change to red & green. Let's crack out the egg nog and celebrate!

ivankirigin• 18 years ago

Eggnog + Cognac = happy Tipjoy household

stella• 18 years ago

I'm on board with the brandy and eggnog, but the cognac is going too far.

Too far!

davidw• 18 years ago

Bah humbug!

cookiecaper• 18 years ago

Oh, that's what this gaudy red is for. Merry Christmas.

pg3• 18 years ago

It was a bit bright. How's this?

moxy• 18 years ago

Not too dark to read, but dark enough (at least on my screen) that it's a bit uncomfortable. Other than that the theme is quite pleasant.

kylec• 18 years ago

How about a nice green (#55af55)?

sidsavara• 18 years ago

I was wondering what that was. I thought it was pointing out rising stories or something.

Decorative colors? Markup that doesn't have some semantic meaning? How strange.

;)

fallentimes8• 18 years ago

Maybe for next Christmas he can let us choose our own CSS theme :-D.

dcurtis• 18 years ago

The day Paul Graham uses CSS is the day hell freezes over.

randomwalker• 18 years ago

You can do that yourself for pretty much any site with the Stylish extension for Firefox, which lets you tweak CSS of websites you visit. It turns out to be surprisingly easy to write your own color scheme or whatever. I actually use my own for hacker news because the default one makes it hard to see the links on the front page that I've already clicked on. http://arvindn.livejournal.com/98803.html

kirubakaran• 18 years ago

:-) Same thing happened last year as well!

thomasswift• 18 years ago

I thought something was wrong at first. The alternating Red Green numbers are a nice touch. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

pjharrin• 18 years ago

I thought I had been suddenly given the ability to change the menu bar colour... :(

alexkay2• 18 years ago

Please bring back the orange header! Am I the only one whose eyes hurt when looking at the red one?

vaksel• 18 years ago

I only see the red one when I submit a comment/article...the main view is still orange

alexkay2• 18 years ago

It's probably your cache, try Ctrl-F5

fallentimes8• 18 years ago

Blast! I thought PG had finally made me a moderator.

I assumed the red items were those that needed my immediate attention. The pattern was just a coincidence, of course.

jmorin007• 18 years ago

Sorry dcurtis, but the day Paul Graham makes danhau a moderator is the day hell freezes over.

fallentimes8• 18 years ago

;(

zitterbewegung• 18 years ago

What about the festival of lights??

ten7• 18 years ago

blink tag anyone?

Tichy• 18 years ago

I wonder if it still works on modern browsers ;-)

Anyway the HN christmass mod really made me laugh.

slater• 18 years ago

BLINK still works in mozilla-based browsers, afaik

Donald• 18 years ago

So what's everyone doing for Christmas?

I've Sinatra on loop on the living room speakers and I'll be waltzing with my lady for a few hours before we depart for a Christmas ski trip.

kwamenum86• 18 years ago

So which part implies Christian- the Hacker or the News? (I actually celebrate xmas....just sayin though)

pg3• 18 years ago

The official religion of Hacker News is FSM, but a reform sect that celebrates Christmas.

icey• 18 years ago

I'm not even sure it's a sect: http://www.venganza.org/2008/12/23/happy-holidays-from-finla...

fallentimes8• 18 years ago

All celebrate the noodly appendage.

invisible• 18 years ago

We really go all out for the holidays here at Hacker News.

daveambrose• 18 years ago

I was so confused when I landed on the homepage just now. I'm on my little brother's MacBook and thought his colors were off - then I put red + green together and the light went off. :)

It's been a long week.

ctingom• 18 years ago

I like it.

dilanj• 18 years ago

PG should keep track of votes and see if there are statistically significant differences depending on the color of numbers. It'd be quite interesting if the same article gets more votes when it has a red number, as opposed to green.

swombat• 18 years ago

Yes.

Because PG has nothing better to do with his time.

petercooper• 18 years ago

Am I the only one who immediately went to acct preferences to see if this is turn off-able? ;-)

Hacker News goes Christmas

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