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

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

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post #34

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.)

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

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

#37
post #9

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. :)

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.

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

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post #22

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.

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

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

#40
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.

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