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Ask HN: Why does GitHub have a black bar?

24 points by simplehuman 10y ago

Is this their new design or did something bad happen? If it's the former, I am lost for words. Why such a depressing color?

ryanfs 10y ago
Hah! I felt so strongly about it I made a chrome extension to put it back to how it was.
- Trindaz 10y ago
  Which is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619401
- simplehuman 10y ago
  Oh, thanks for this! I cannot stand github with the new design
jna_sh 10y ago
"Dark header has arrived on http://GitHub.com http://GitHub.com for desktop and mobile! First of many iterative design changes coming" https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440 https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440
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orb_yt 10y ago
This needs to be optional, it looks terrible.
grw_ 10y ago
I thought I'd been marked..
rr- 10y ago
I don't understand why they're changing anything, I always looked up to GitHub's design as one of the best looking and consistent designs on the Internet. The new black bar looks very bland, out of place and definitely worse than previous one. This feels like a change for the sake of it...
mrahmadawais 10y ago
It looks pretty odd to me too.
dharness 10y ago
The designers at github must be going through some pretty dour times...
victor-li 10y ago
If you also dislike the new black navigation bar: https://github.com/victor-li/github-white-navbar https://github.com/victor-li/github-white-navbar
erlich 10y ago
I thought someone important had died...
- szydan 10y ago
  That one gave me a good laugh ;-)
scazzy 10y ago
Part of design upgrades. A responsive mobile design also coming the way https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830505943800573952 https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830505943800573952
theosp 10y ago
https://medium.com/@cwodtke/users-dont-hate-change-they-hate-you-461772fbcac7#.84k2i2hrj https://medium.com/@cwodtke/users-dont-hate-change-they-hate...
flying_sheep 10y ago
I thought it was browser rendering error but I was wrong. I thought it was CSS error but I was wrong. I thought it was about Trump's act but I was wrong. How can it be the new design? The title bar should never be the focus of the layout but now it is. It catches our attention before the content which is more important.
chippy 10y ago
did it happen around the same time as Topics? I think topics are very useful. Much easier to find related repos than searching through a fork
alevale 10y ago
OMG, please tell me they will roll that back, it's stupid but i can't focus anymore on the code, I just see a black bar with a lot of contrast in my screen... It's funny that so many people got the same impression than me, that something was going very very wrong
guruz 10y ago
GothHub..
realperson 10y ago
You can use "github navbar color" chrome plugin to remove the black navigation bar of github. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-navbar-color/aipekmckongnbdmneahofjpbcdpjhgda?hl=zh-CN https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-navbar-colo...

24 points by simplehuman 10y ago

Is this their new design or did something bad happen? If it's the former, I am lost for words. Why such a depressing color?

ryanfs 10y ago

Hah! I felt so strongly about it I made a chrome extension to put it back to how it was.

Trindaz 10y ago
Which is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619401
simplehuman 10y ago
Oh, thanks for this! I cannot stand github with the new design

jna_sh 10y ago

"Dark header has arrived on http://GitHub.com http://GitHub.com for desktop and mobile! First of many iterative design changes coming" https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440 https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440

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orb_yt 10y ago

This needs to be optional, it looks terrible.

grw_ 10y ago

I thought I'd been marked..

rr- 10y ago

I don't understand why they're changing anything, I always looked up to GitHub's design as one of the best looking and consistent designs on the Internet. The new black bar looks very bland, out of place and definitely worse than previous one. This feels like a change for the sake of it...

mrahmadawais 10y ago

It looks pretty odd to me too.

dharness 10y ago

The designers at github must be going through some pretty dour times...

victor-li 10y ago

If you also dislike the new black navigation bar: https://github.com/victor-li/github-white-navbar https://github.com/victor-li/github-white-navbar

erlich 10y ago

I thought someone important had died...

szydan 10y ago
That one gave me a good laugh ;-)

scazzy 10y ago

Part of design upgrades. A responsive mobile design also coming the way https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830505943800573952 https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830505943800573952

theosp 10y ago

https://medium.com/@cwodtke/users-dont-hate-change-they-hate-you-461772fbcac7#.84k2i2hrj https://medium.com/@cwodtke/users-dont-hate-change-they-hate...

flying_sheep 10y ago

I thought it was browser rendering error but I was wrong. I thought it was CSS error but I was wrong. I thought it was about Trump's act but I was wrong. How can it be the new design? The title bar should never be the focus of the layout but now it is. It catches our attention before the content which is more important.

chippy 10y ago

did it happen around the same time as Topics? I think topics are very useful. Much easier to find related repos than searching through a fork

alevale 10y ago

OMG, please tell me they will roll that back, it's stupid but i can't focus anymore on the code, I just see a black bar with a lot of contrast in my screen... It's funny that so many people got the same impression than me, that something was going very very wrong

guruz 10y ago

GothHub..

realperson 10y ago

You can use "github navbar color" chrome plugin to remove the black navigation bar of github. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-navbar-color/aipekmckongnbdmneahofjpbcdpjhgda?hl=zh-CN https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-navbar-colo...