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Ask HN: topcolor stopped working

1 points by akjainaj 10y ago

So that's it... I had a topcolor set but it was reset to ff6600 and I can't change it anymore. Is it buggy or something?

gus_massa 10y ago
Try emailing the mods hn@ycombinator.com , they usually reply sooner because this threads are sometime unnoticed.
grzm 10y ago
Changing topcolor is unlocked by karma. I believe the required karma is 250. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438957 You may have been above 250 at one point and since dipped back below. As of this comment it looks like you have 245.
dang 10y ago
Topcolor doesn't work until you have 250 karma. A bug is currently displaying the setting even to users who don't have the karma to change it. Sorry! That's super annoying. We'll fix it. Edit: it's fixed now, meaning that the setting is no longer displayed when it shouldn't be. Sorry for tantalizing. Edit 2: I was looking for the post where pg first introduced the topcolor feature as a reward for karma, which I remember from years ago, but couldn't find it. If anybody can find it please let me know!
- DanBC 10y ago
  Perhaps "A visual thank-you to the top submitters": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97573 And here's pg talking about a bit of programming he did to find the topcolors that people are using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98265 EDIT: I have grumbled about the Algolia search in the past, and I need to apologise to them. It's pretty good. The minor problem I have is that I'd prefer it to remember that I want to search comments (usually not stories), and I prefer to order by date, not points. And it doesn't return dead comments, but I guess I understand that.
  - dang 10y ago
    You found it! And here's the linked article at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20080130060616/http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html?12jan08 https://web.archive.org/web/20080130060616/http://ycombinato....

1 points by akjainaj 10y ago

So that's it... I had a topcolor set but it was reset to ff6600 and I can't change it anymore. Is it buggy or something?

gus_massa 10y ago

Try emailing the mods hn@ycombinator.com , they usually reply sooner because this threads are sometime unnoticed.

grzm 10y ago

Changing topcolor is unlocked by karma. I believe the required karma is 250. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438957 You may have been above 250 at one point and since dipped back below. As of this comment it looks like you have 245.

dang 10y ago

Topcolor doesn't work until you have 250 karma. A bug is currently displaying the setting even to users who don't have the karma to change it. Sorry! That's super annoying. We'll fix it. Edit: it's fixed now, meaning that the setting is no longer displayed when it shouldn't be. Sorry for tantalizing. Edit 2: I was looking for the post where pg first introduced the topcolor feature as a reward for karma, which I remember from years ago, but couldn't find it. If anybody can find it please let me know!

DanBC 10y ago
Perhaps "A visual thank-you to the top submitters": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97573 And here's pg talking about a bit of programming he did to find the topcolors that people are using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98265 EDIT: I have grumbled about the Algolia search in the past, and I need to apologise to them. It's pretty good. The minor problem I have is that I'd prefer it to remember that I want to search comments (usually not stories), and I prefer to order by date, not points. And it doesn't return dead comments, but I guess I understand that.
- dang 10y ago
  You found it! And here's the linked article at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20080130060616/http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html?12jan08 https://web.archive.org/web/20080130060616/http://ycombinato....