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What does that mean?

• html5web 14y ago
  It means if you change header colors of HN website nobody can guess that's actually HN.
• SoftwareMaven 14y ago
  #000000 is black in HTML. setting your top color black would make the text in the top nav invisible.
  • chromedude 14y ago
    That is exactly the point. They don't want people seeing that they are on HN.
    • SoftwareMaven 14y ago
      Right, I got that. I was explaining it to my parent. :)
• spatulon 14y ago
  Once you reach a certain karma threshold, you gain the ability to change the colour of the orange bar at the top of HN pages. The setting is labelled 'topcolor'.
  • comex 14y ago
    Off topic, but why the heck does this require karma?
    • p4bl0 14y ago
      The required karma threshold is not much (500 if I remember), so it may be a way to say "thanks and keep going" to people who start investing some time to participate to HN.