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Added "Hacker News Orange" to the list: https://colornames.org/color/ff6500 https://colornames.org/color/ff6500 I'm struggling to figure out if this is a serio
by applecrazy 6y ago
Added "Hacker News Orange" to the list: https://colornames.org/color/ff6500 https://colornames.org/color/ff6500
I'm struggling to figure out if this is a serious attempt, though.
- retreatguru 6y agoI saw this and voted it up.
- stanislavb 6y agoThere are submissions from 7 and more months ago. Seems serious.
- rohan1024 6y agoHN should allow changing of color of top bar via a get parameter. It would be awesome.
- applecrazy 6y agoYou can change it in your profile settings (though that’s not exactly what you’re asking for). I think there’s a karma threshold, though.
- asciimike 6y agoI believe it's 256
- Stratoscope 6y agoI was so happy when I reached that number (or whatever it was) and didn't have to look at the orange bar any more. For anyone looking for a more tasteful topcolor, try d0c8b5. It's just a darker version of the main HN background color, so it's easy on the eyes.
- hunter2_ 6y agoAnd here I thought it was released for everyone at the point where I apparently hit that number. Is it just me, or is the fact that it's based on karma not clear?
- williamdclt 6y agoI mean, Hackernews isn't known for its good UX. What does "showdead", "noprocrast", "maxvisit", "minaway", "delay" do in the profile? I've been using HN for a while and I have no clue
- vidarh 6y agoThere's a FAQ that covers the profile settings: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoIt’s 250. There’s also a list of all colors in use, sorted by frequency: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors
- Tempest1981 6y ago#abcabc is second on HN... "soft foam". Because people like foam, or easy to remember?
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- rohan1024 6y agoNice. I did not know this. I have set mine to #fff2af. I used to manually edit each character and see if it fits for me. It is 480 of 2923 in that list!
- moioci 6y agoI love that chrome offers to translate this page from Welsh.
- owenversteeg 6y agoSome funny ones: c0ffee, dadb0d, badcab, deface, deadbf, baddad, daddad, debeef, beefed, adbeef, beeeef, efface, faceb0, deeded, facade, 2faced, decafe, dabeef #debeef is a lovely lavender actually!
- stragies 6y agoWrite a Grease-monkey (or equivalent) script, that reads your query variable, applies the value to the top bar, and then add that parameter to all links on the page. Optional: Then write a bookmarklet, that displays a color-picker, and reloads the tab with the changed querystring variable. (HN web server admin might get some "scary" log file entries though, regarding an "unusual" additional QS variable)
- turnipla 6y agoThat’s called CSS. Use a user style, not javascript. The query is not applicable since its not offered by HN themselves.
- stragies 6y agoYou are misunderstanding what grease-monkey can do, and what I'm proposing. e.g. try loading news.ycombinator.com?myColorVar=44ff55 , it will load normally, as usual. Of course, this variable means nothing to the HN backend, but this is where e.g. Grease-monkey comes in: It injects a bit of javascript of your choosing into the page context for the news.ycombinator.com/* pages. This scriplet can easily change the color of the header-bar, and add the colorVariable to all (non-external) links. Of course, you can add a line like the following to your local userContent.css: @-moz-document domain(news.ycombinator.com) { #hnmain>tbody>tr:first-of-type>td { background-color: lime !important; } , but this has the disadvantage of requiring a Firefox restart for each change, whereas my method requires only twiddling the value in the URL, and it's valid for all future requests, until you change it again. I hope, the above makes it clearer, what I meant the post above
- stragies 6y agoThe following code snippet in a grease-monkey-script with // @include https://news.ycombinator.com/* https://news.ycombinator.com/* in the header will color the top-bar on HN pages with the color given in the URL such like https://news.ycombinator.com#MYC=lime https://news.ycombinator.com#MYC=lime or https://news.ycombinator.com#MYC=#ce1c01 https://news.ycombinator.com#MYC=#ce1c01 . (function() { if (color=document.location.href.match(/#MYC=(.)/)[1]) { document.querySelector("#hnmain>tbody>tr:first-of-type>td").setAttribute("bgcolor",color); document.querySelectorAll('a[href^="https://news.ycomb" https://news.ycomb"],a:not([href="/"])') .forEach(e => {e.href+="#MYC="+color}); } })(); This script colors the top bar, and adds the custom colour to all HN-internal links, so until you manually change the URL, further navigation in that tab within news.ycombinator.com will retain your chosen top-bar colour. (I hope the code comes out formatted in a legible way)
- zuppy 6y agoI honestly doubt, considering https://colornames.org/color/31df4e https://colornames.org/color/31df4e is called "Tyrannosaurus Ur Ex"
- zjs 6y agoOn my browser, it appears that the top bar of Hacker News is #ff6600. Is there somewhere that #ff6500 is used?
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- fireattack 6y agoBut it's bgcolor="#ff6600"?
- egeozcan 6y agoBoth are there: https://colornames.org/search/results/?query=Hacker+News+Orange https://colornames.org/search/results/?query=Hacker+News+Ora... Although the 65 one needs to be better named "Fake Hacker News Orange" or "Hacker Fake News Orange".
- applecrazy 6y agoOh no, it is #ff6600! I didn’t realize that I had customized my topbar color to a different orange. hopefully the masses can figure it out and correct it.
- ryanmjacobs 6y agoHeyyo "Hacker News Orange [0.123]" is ranked #5 now. Edit: I think my new favorite is "#403403 Forbidden Brown"