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Dracula Theme for Hacker News
- defrost 3y agoI should assume if I install this it will siphon away the very essence of my being then? Over and above what HN already sucks out from my life
- state_less 3y agoNo worries, HN can always defrost some more when needed.
- frfl 3y agoInteresting what others find appealing. This reminds me of some Halloween themed flash game's menu that I played on cartoonnetwork.com back in 2000s [1][2]. But everyone is free to choose what they like, I'm not one to judge someone else's color scheme. [1]: https://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120701045312/knd/images/2/20/Trick-or-treat-halloween-game-KND.jpg https://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120701045312/knd/im... [2]: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y1PF-2r9sv0/hqdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y1PF-2r9sv0/hqdefault.jpg
- echelon 3y agoDracula is one of the most popular IDE and text editor color schemes [1]. I'm partial to Molokai/Monokai/something-kai, though I'm not sure why different people call it by different names [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(color_scheme) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(color_scheme) [2] https://github.com/sainnhe/sonokai https://github.com/sainnhe/sonokai
- dharmab 3y agoMonokai was the name of the blog where the colorscheme was originally posted to: https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monokai.nl/blog/2006/07/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monoka... At some point, the original author decided Monokai was a good name for both the website and the colorscheme: https://monokai.pro/ https://monokai.pro/ A different author ported the theme to Vim, and named this version Molokai to avoid confusion with the original author: https://github.com/tomasr/molokai https://github.com/tomasr/molokai
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> and named this version Molokai to avoid confusion That's likely to be pretty frustrating to people for whom N and L are the same sound.
- mathieuh 3y agoWhat languages have n and l as allophones? Genuinely interested
- thaumasiotes 3y agoCantonese, and some other nearby languages. Likely others, but Cantonese is the big one. The loss of the distinction in Cantonese is fairly recent; Chinese terms borrowed from English via Cantonese all obey the distinction, using characters that indicate the correct consonant when read in other varieties of Chinese, and you can find old English-Cantonese dictionaries that talk about how certain Cantonese accents don't make the distinction (implying that "correct" Cantonese of the time still does, which is not the case today).
- dharmab 3y agoMolokai is the name of a place.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoStamford is also the name of a place, but that doesn't mean you're not causing problems when you call your school "Stamford University". (I'm aware that the name is much older, but it's been displaced.) And in this case, Molokai isn't the name of a place, it's been chosen solely for its phonetic similarity to "Monokai". If I found a new Harverd University, I may be able to justify that, but I certainly can't do so on the stated grounds of "in order to avoid confusion".
- frfl 3y ago> Dracula is one of the most popular IDE and text editor color schemes For sure. I've definitely seen Dracula for many years on reddit/hn. Haven't seen anyone use it personally, but that's a small sample size. It's not a bad theme by any means, it's well designed based on the choice of colors and style they're going for. Not one I'd use, but I can why others may. Gotta respect their whole ecosystem thing they've got. They offer it for a lot of different things, editors/browsers/terminals/probably OS themes too. Don't see that with other themes.
- pindab0ter 3y ago> I've definitely seen Dracula for many years on reddit/hn. I wonder if that's just because they have great branding and have a scheme available for almost everything imaginable. I, for one, really dislike the colour scheme itself, leaving me wondering why it's so popular. Now I'm just wondering if I'm growing old, or if it really is just different strokes for different folks.
- Tempest1981 3y agoNot to be confused with Darcula: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12692-darcula-darker-theme https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12692-darcula-darker-th...
- rob74 3y agoYup, I thought of that one too (actually of the original Darcula, which is built-in and I think the default theme if you use dark mode). Clever wordplay between "dark" and "Dracula", but some probably misread it. Anyway, that theme is actually completely different than Dracula and more to my taste...
- tsumnia 3y agoI look at it as a lightly goofy take on the "dark" color scheme idea. I'm a Monokai person myself but I always have a sensible chuckle when I see people built stuff with Dracula.
- stets 3y agowow, throwback. Used to play those games a ton!
- rubslopes 3y ago> Interesting what others find appealing. I love the Dracula color scheme; its appeal to me lies in the combination of a dark theme with a touch of playfulness without being childish.
- maltalex 3y agoA similar option is Dark Reader [0]. Also a plugin, also Recommended. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/
- bomewish 3y ago+1 for Dark Reader. I use it to change the font on every website, darkmode _everything_, and even paid for the ios version. Fantastic plugin. Using it on brave, safari, firefox, chrome.
- omgmajk 3y agoDark reader crashes too much and too often for my liking. I still use it but I would love for an alternative to emerge.
- corytheboyd 3y agoI quite like this and am going to use it :D One suggestion: links (including the "reply" button) in the comment section are black text, which is difficult to read against the background.
- jdorfman 3y agoDamn, I love Dracula, but the links are black [1], making it hard to read. Going to revert for now. Hey Zeno if you're reading this! [1] https://p21.p4.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/nOuJkP65/01a9da6e-ac84-4f72-b86e-4ebdd43f2715.png https://p21.p4.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/nOuJkP65/01a9da6...
- indigodaddy 3y agonoticed the same.. must be easyish perhaps to fix in an a:link somewhere in the stylus options for it? Just installed stylus and this myself so not totally sure what/where to change the color within the theme code..
- _9hey 3y agoa:link, .comment a:link{ color: #bd93f9; }
- rufi 3y agothis worked
- nicolewhite 3y agoI fixed by adding this to the theme: .c00 a:link { color: #bd93f9; }
- _blz2 3y agoThe solarized dark one seems good: https://github.com/superjamie/hn-solarized-dark-nice https://github.com/superjamie/hn-solarized-dark-nice
- eigenvalue 3y agoAll these tweaks seem to lose their appeal to me pretty quickly and then I go back to the stock settings which just “feel right” somehow. Maybe it’s just habit. I also feel similarly about the 100 or more “HN but with a way slicker interface optimized for mobile,” which always seem way worse to me (not to mention they are always missing lots of features).
- tombert 3y agoIt makes me sad that the Wombat theme is never in the conversation for these things. I always really liked the way that one looked ever since I saw it in Emacs, but it appears that I'm in a vast minority, since a lot of people seem to prefer Dracula and Solarized.
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- nosrepa 3y agoLooks like old reddit in dark mode with res when you've clicked on all of the links.
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- vohk 3y agoDracula is a bit neon for my taste but I really do appreciate how the creator took the time to make a theme for damn near everything. The consistency makes for a great selling point.
- pindab0ter 3y agoCompletely agree! I'm actually baffled why Dracula seems to be the only color scheme that is available for so many places. I'm a big fan of JetBrains' Darcula color scheme myself. Imagine my frustration when searching for that, instead! Haha
- marcocampos 3y agoCatppuccin is also very extensive: https://github.com/catppuccin/catppuccin https://github.com/catppuccin/catppuccin
- pindab0ter 3y agoOh that one's a lot more to my taste than Dracula is! I'm partial to the muted tones of JetBrain's dark mode colours. I'd love it if there was a theme like that with such an active developer (community)!
- leononame 3y agoI agree. I would love it if the creator took the time and made a less flashy version, would buy 100%.
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- whatyesaid 3y agoWhy HN still only comes in white without these extensions is crazy. Theming is a day of work unless you use Lisp I guess. This site barely changes. Pretty sure dark mode is much easier on the eyes at night at least.
- luispauloml 3y agoNot for everybody. Dark themes make me dizzy and tired, be it either day or night, and I believe it's because I have high degree of astigmatism and myopia in both eyes.
- danpalmer 3y ago> Pretty sure dark mode is much easier on the eyes at night at least. This is very subjective. I personally find it much more difficult to focus on dark screens and they tire my eyes more. I'd rather turn the brightness down on a light theme than need to have it cranked up to full on a dark theme.
- Tomte 3y agoThen tell your web browser or OS to render it dark. Seriously, why should web sites have to care about this? Your OS and browser know better what you display how and can match web page display to browser chrome and system UI.
- whatyesaid 3y agoI have set my OS to dark mode on windows and android. It doesn't work without extensions like DarkReader etc if you don't provide the theme/CSS as the website. I uninstalled DarkReader because it just guesses how to map things over and some websites became unreadable or in subtle ways things don't display properly. Maybe I will use whatever is suggested here but you really shouldn't have to for a site as big as HN.
- Tomte 3y agoNo site should have to cater to dark users, is my point. That doesn‘t help you today, but complaints should be directed at browsers and OSes, not web site owners. (I realize that HN does have color CSS rules, but this complaint comes up all the time even with web sites that don‘t specify colors)
- bhauer 3y agoLooks similar to the custom theme I built several years back for HN and still use to this day: https://imgur.com/a/ty2TNHJ https://imgur.com/a/ty2TNHJ
- broth 3y agoA bit of an aside but are there any options like this for mobile?
- default-user 3y agoWorks on Firefox nightly (android)
- iza 3y agoPersonally I use https://github.com/pyxelr/hacker-news-bluish-gray https://github.com/pyxelr/hacker-news-bluish-gray
- thaumasiotes 3y agoSpeaking of theming Hacker News, not long ago I noticed that the Y icon in the topbar had been switched to match your custom topbar color. But it's now switched back to an invariant orange.
- omgmajk 3y agoDang said it was due to a single user sending lots of emails about the orange icon looking bad on the christmas theme HN uses for the top bar (orange on red).
- kawogi 3y agoFunny coincidence. I found Dracula for VSStudio two days ago. So far it is the only dark theme that provides overall readable texts combined with red-shift for me. Single-line comments could be a bit brighter, though.
- darekkay 3y agoI've recently migrated my HN dark theme to uBlock filters [1], as I try to lower the amount of browser extensions that I use. [1] https://github.com/darekkay/config-files/blob/master/adblocker/styling.txt#L19 https://github.com/darekkay/config-files/blob/master/adblock...
- Broussebar 3y agoI never thought of using ublock filters for inserting custom css. This is brilliant, thanks for the demo.
- kuschkufan 3y agoOkay, here goes a rough first edit for Dracula using uBlock orgin filters: ! Title: Dracula HN theme news.ycombinator.com##body, .c00:style(color: #CCCCCC !important; background-color: #282835 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##tr,td:style(background-color: #282835 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##tr#pagespace:style(display: none !important; ) news.ycombinator.com###hnmain > tbody > tr:nth-child(1) table:style(background-color: #444757 !important; border-bottom: 10px solid #282835 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com###hnmain > tbody > tr:nth-child(1) td:style(background-color: #444757 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##b.hnname > a:style(color: #a4fa90 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##a:style(color: #ad96e4 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##.subline:style(color: #ccc !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##.subline a:style(color: #999 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##.score,#hnmain > tbody > tr:nth-child(1) td:last-child > span.pagetop:style(color: #e1772c !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##.sitestr:style(color: #a7d3e6 !important; ) Enjoy
- kuschkufan 3y agoUpdated, so it works for the days when there is the grieving bar at the top ! Title: Dracula HN theme news.ycombinator.com##body, .c00:style(color: #f8f8f2 !important; background-color: #21222c !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##td[bgcolor="#ff6600"]:style(background-color: #444757 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##[bgcolor="#f6f6ef"]:style(background-color: #21222c !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##[bgcolor="#000000"]:style(background-color: #ff5555 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##tr#pagespace:style(display: none !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##b.hnname > a:style(color: #50fa7b !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##a:style(color: #bd93f9 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##.subline:style(color: #f8f8f2 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##.subline a:style(color: #999 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##.score,#hnmain > tbody > tr td:last-child > span.pagetop:style(color: #ff79c6 !important; ) news.ycombinator.com##.sitestr:style(color: #8be9fd !important; )
- rockyj 3y agoYou can also do this with the Stylebot extension - https://github.com/ankit/stylebot https://github.com/ankit/stylebot .. I was already doing this :) (just copy paste the CSS)
- mariuolo 3y agoDracula's manor looks French in style.
- pindab0ter 3y agoBetween this and Catpuccin, is there an index of popular and widely supported themes?