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Why does every "Ask HN" I see come with a grey text color? Is this a stylistic thing or do people take issue with people asking questions and downvote?
by mbwgh 4y ago
Why does every "Ask HN" I see come with a grey text color?
Is this a stylistic thing or do people take issue with people asking questions and downvote?
- aamargulies 4y agoHN does this purposefully to show its preference for external content rather than self posts.
- KronisLV 4y agoI wonder if there could be an alternative way of getting the point across, as opposed to having low contrast text, which some tools report as an accessibility problem: https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34674569 https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://news.ycombinator.com... But other than that, it's an interesting design choice.
- pancrufty 4y agoHN does this because they don’t care. It wouldn’t take much to make this site usable, but they refuse to add 5 lines of CSS to make the site work in dark mode.
- SturgeonsLaw 4y agohttps://userstyles.org/styles/browse/ycombinator https://userstyles.org/styles/browse/ycombinator
- pancrufty 4y agoDoesn't sound like a good default. I used those before, but I shouldn't have to to make a website barely usable.
- groestl 4y agoAaaaah facepalm. Using this for a decade, never had a clue.
- MintPaw 4y agoWow, TIL after many years. Kinda scummy to show some content as artificially downvoted to drive engagement. I thought everyone hated questions...
- Dylan16807 4y agoPosts can't be downvoted.
- cma 4y agoI think he means the text of self posts looks similar to downvoted comments.
- Dylan16807 4y agoSure, but it's harder to argue that some posts appear downvoted in a deceptive way when the whole category of posts can't be downvoted. Even if that is what happens with comments.
- MintPaw 4y agoDouble TIL, I've never been able to downvote anything. I don't have a high enough score.
- thrdbndndn 4y agodiv.toptext { color: black; }
- japanman425 4y agoOkay but why should I do that
- Karunamon 4y agoIf something is bothering you, it seems a bit weird to allow it to keep bothering you when the solution is so trivial.
- hosteur 4y ago@plibither8: Maybe this is something Refined Hacker News extension could do? https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
- fIREpOK 4y agoHN does the same when you go through your settings and select "show hidden"... You "see" them but you dont.. The light gray goes even closer to the background color in this case.