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Yes. If you click the black bar, all will be explained.
by dkonofalski 9y ago
Yes. If you click the black bar, all will be explained.
- CM30 9y agoYeah, realised that a short while after I posted the topic. Still not quite sure about how net neutrality ties into the colour scheme and style choice though. Seems like it'd work better for something like the Edward Snowden leaks or what not. Maybe they could have made it feel like the site was only half loaded with a banner underneath saying "please upgrade your internet connection to view the rest of this site"?
- mjlee 9y agoI think it's probably a throwback to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA I don't remember what HN did in 2012, this might be an example of code re-use...
- dang 9y agoNot code re-use, but we decided to follow what HN did in 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20120118204946/http://news.ycombinator.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120118204946/http://news.ycomb....
- Tomte 9y agoSo you decided to block the link to the front page with no way around except typing the URL? Stunning.
- shallot_router 9y agoYeah, I appreciate the net neutrality support but the lack of a front page link has made browsing very annoying today.
- dkonofalski 9y agoIsn't that kind of the point? One day of annoyance to educate people that aren't familiar seems like a decent trade-off. Then again, the HN community is probably the one community that is sufficiently well-versed enough in the subject to not need the reminder.
- FussyZeus 9y agoI can't tell if this is sarcasm, this took me literally 3 seconds to route around using CMD+L and typing "news." and hitting enter. I'm all for good UX but this seems supremely picky.
- dang 9y agoCome on you guys, that's a bit harsh. Let me see if we can make something else link to HN for you. Edit: ok, the Y logo now links to back to HN's home page.
- venning 9y agoDon't know if you check these 5 days later, but you never reverted this change.
- antsar 9y agoThis has been working as a great alternative-noprocrast for me today.
- aruggirello 9y agoBTW I think there's a (long standing) issue with your CSS: I'm always writing black on dark gray when I'm on Firefox under KDE with the Breeze Dark theme, and I think it's because you probably specified a black foreground color for form elements, and assumed the background to be always white (it isn't!)...
- mywittyname 9y agoIt's a "blackout" not censorship.
- Theodores 9y agoWe are experts at UX on HN, every one of us hence the intuitive black bar. I was wondering who has died? It could have been anyone. Fortunately it wasn't.