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Ask HN: Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?
- xenospn 10mo agoYes. It happens every year.
- orionblastar 10mo ago12/25 https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Nakatomi_Plaza https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Nakatomi_Plaza never forget, at Midnight, Hans Gruber falls off the tower. :)
- WarOnPrivacy 10mo agoThe Christmas color scheme is a bit off for me. The title bar is too light to read. I turned off my dark theme and the page became high-contrast chromatic in my browser. It is readable like that, if brutally so.
- pohl 10mo agoand green
- dang 10mo agoSomeone should make a compendium of all the "Tell HN: Merry Christmas" and corresponding "Ask HN: Why did the colors change?" threads over the years. It would be fun, and is probably be a good fit for semantic search.
- tptacek 10mo agoWrong answers only! It's a secret feature of HN, like the black bar, but for when someone has made Dan angry.
- dadrian 10mo agoIt's not red! You're just colorblind.
- throwaway2046 10mo agoBlack bar?
- akerl_ 10mo agoIt’s like a grizzly bar, but mostly found on the east coast.
- firefax 10mo agodan has recently joined the DSA, and redone the color scheme in kind. thank you comrade!
- brightmood 10mo agoMade a request so I can keep using that when Christmas is over. It makes HN usable to me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382452
- Yash16 10mo agoThe red looks great overall. Changing the text to white might improve contrast and readability. I experimented with red in my app, but it didn’t work visually, so I moved to a snowfall theme.
- gethly 10mo agoit's beyond dumb to change the color to red but keep the text black.
- beAbU 10mo agoI'm pretty sure you have better things to do with your time than complain about a website's colour scheme on Christmas. Go outside and touch some grass.