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Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too
- david927 15y agoMerry Christmas everyone!
- ORioN63 15y agoMerry Christmas and Happy New Year!
- brudgers 15y agoPeace on earth and good will to all, unconditionally.
- sneak 15y agoPersonally, I'd like a Winnebago. Burgundy interior.
- pandemicsyn 15y agoHeh, think I actually prefer this color scheme. Happy Holidays!
- switz 15y agoI like it other than the red bar at the top.
- tokenadult 15y agoThe Christmas color scheme changes the top color on the comment submission form, but doesn't change a user-set top color on the main page.
- moonlighter 15y agoJust noticed that too. Nice touch! Happy holidays to all fellow hackers.
- moonlighter 15y ago... and painters ;)
- resnamen 15y agoI 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. :)
- Aqua_Geek 15y agoI didn't even realize the alternating article numbers. Bah humbug to colorblindness.
- aiscott 15y agoditto that. Most of the time I don't notice the effects of red-green color deficiency, but whenever someone wants to differentiate between A and B with colors, inevitably it's red/green. Not much to do about it with xmas colors though. Bah humbug to poinsettias.
- resnamen 15y agoDoes it look like red and red? Or gray and gray?
- timewasted 15y agoAt a glance it looks gray and gray. If I stare, I can make out the red and can see that the green is a different color, but I really only recognize that it's green because people mentioned it being green. So, I concur with the bah humbug to colorblindness statements.
- crandles 15y agoI didn't even notice the colored numbers until I read the comments. For myself, the colors are easy enough to distinguish (as separate colors), as the red looks brighter than the green. If I didn't already know the colors were red and green, I think I'd be able to pick out the one that is clearly red (As there is a shade of red for sure in the title bar), but I do not believe I'd be able to say with certainty that the green is green (and not another shade of red).
- miles_matthias 15y agoHappy Holidays to my hacker family! This was my first year really contributing to posts and discussions and it's been incredibly rewarding. Thanks everyone!
- ryanbraganza 15y agoDupe: submitted 366 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2034624 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2034624 Merry Christmas!
- kurikintoki 15y agoIt's better if you put white characters in the red banner:) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!!
- jetsnoc 15y agoMerry Christmas fellow hackers!
- dekz 15y agoMerry Christmas from Down Under.
- CoffeeDregs 15y agoIn re: "Christmas from Down Under" (and the southern hemisphere in general): I always think it's a trip that y'all are in the peak of summer at Christmas time. We have all kinds of songs, rituals, artifacts, whatever that derive from the fact that it's cold outside: I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas; tinsel on christmas trees to simulate icicles; drinking Eggnog. Question: do you Christmas bits reflect that it's winter outside somewhere else or do you have a separate bunch of Christmas bits to reflect that it's summer during your Christmas?
- dekz 15y agoI honestly cannot speak for everyone, of course we have our own Aussie Christmas carols with your reindeers replaced with kangaroos which to me seem more to be satire. But we have still been Nothern-hemispherized in the traditional christmas sense. Our decorations have snow, every figurine is rugged up etc. I could send you a picture of my christmas tree, it would be indistinguishable from your generic tree. It surely doesn't snow in all parts of the Northern Hemispher and I guess you can draw similarities to that. The funny thing is, for more Christmas's then I can remember, it has actually been quite wet and stormy, today it is beautiful and sunny.
- CoffeeDregs 15y agoInteresting. I guess I'm not too surprised that your Christmas bits are much like ours. "Rudolph the red-nosed Kangaroo"? Awesome.
- pasbesoin 15y agoMaking a guess as to the time zone of HN's server. ;-)
- mwk 15y agoMerry Chrismas new friends.
- jimminy 15y agoThis 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.
- floatingatoll 15y agopg, can we have white text instead of black text on the red background?
- notspanishflu 15y agoMerry Christmas - Feliz Navidad
- hub_ 15y agoIt makes the text in it hard to read for me. Maybe a better contrast?
- ElliotH 15y agoHappy Christmas all! Enjoyed my second year immensely with you guys.
- jarin 15y agoMerry Christmas from an atheist! ;) And Happy Holidays to the rest!
- meanJim 15y agoMerry Christmas! Thanks for all the great articles
- tlammens 15y agoPhew, my monitor is not broken. Happy holidays!
- ggwicz 15y agoMerry Christmas, Hanukkah (or however you spell it), Kwanzaa, Festivus, and the New Year!
- sp332 15y agoIf 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.)
- tlammens 15y agoIt seems very weird that you need a high karma level for such a feature, no?
- tyrelb 15y agoMerry Christmas pg & the YC crew!
- imd23 15y agoMerry Christmas Hackers! from Uruguay. g.
- pace 15y agoFirst, 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.
- gruseom 15y agoWhat? The minimal, tasteful, uncluttered design of HN is one of the top reasons why it has been such an unqualified success.
- mqqq 15y agoMerry Christmas
- captain_mars 15y agoHey OP, do they have Christmas on your planet too? ;-) Small galaxy!
- captain_mars 15y agoEr, I was referring to your Starcraft-inspired name, not to my name. :-)
- happyfeet 15y agoMerry Christmas to all. :)
- omaranto 15y agoMaybe my monitor is miscalibrated or something, but the red bar looks too dark and rusty, not cheery and christmassy at all.