There's a darker orange banner and alternating numbers are coloured! It's a bit distracting
Ask HN: Why has the HN theme changed?
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Re: Ask HN: Why has the HN theme changed?
#2The 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.
Re: Ask HN: Why has the HN theme changed?
#3It'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.
Re: Ask HN: Why has the HN theme changed?
#4The 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.
If you have enough karma you can change your topcolor ... the color of your nav banner.
Re: Ask HN: Why has the HN theme changed?
#5It'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.
Ah! That's a relief to know. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: Why has the HN theme changed?
#6The 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.
If you have enough karma you can change your topcolor ... the color of your nav banner.
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.
Re: Ask HN: Why has the HN theme changed?
#7This 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.
Re: Ask HN: Why has the HN theme changed?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you have enough karma you can change your topcolor ... the color of your nav banner.
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.
This could be the exemplar of HN complaints: simultaneously very specific and personal, concerning something trivial, humorless, and projected onto the world at large.
Re: Ask HN: Why has the HN theme changed?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This could be the exemplar of HN complaints: simultaneously very specific and personal, concerning something trivial, humorless, and projected onto the world at large.
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Re: Ask HN: Why has the HN theme changed?
#10I require an explanation for the these red and green colors showing up on the 25th of December!
Merry Christmas HN. :)