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HN: Merry Christmas (Did HN just RapGenius me)

15 points by bushido 13y ago

A little less than an hour ago, I suddenly noticed the HN header color had become deep-red. http://oi39.tinypic.com/2v2t8ut.jpg My first thought, "Damn, I've been hellbanned on Christmas" aka "HN is pulling a RapGenius Christmas on me", thankfully on examining the index there the numbers on the ordered list alternated between red and green and then I realized it may just be for Christmas! Thought I'd add a post for others, in case there is anyone else who gets spooked like me :)

frik 13y ago
I had the same shock moment too :) It reminds me of the Slashdot 1st April "Pony" edition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slashdot_omgponies.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slashdot_omgponies.png
tostitos1979 13y ago
What surprised me was the time of day it happened. 1-2pm EST?
- bushido 13y ago
  That surprised me too :)
elwell 13y ago
I didn't notice because I use a custom color for the header bar (settable on your profile page). I only noticed when I went to reply to a message. On that page the custom header color is not respected.
yeukhon 13y ago
Okay, but, it is time to fix those unconventional navigation items up there. Come on, it's been 71 days already. Can we fix them already? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6550469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6550469 I could fire up a vim and fix them if I were the developer. The time it took them to add the color changes would be better off for something long past due.
- bushido 13y ago
  Funnily enough, it was thanks to the Christmas theme that I realized that "Threads" was highlighted when I went to "Profile -> Comments" to view my comments. I have been doing the latter for years. PG does need to review the naming of those links.
- ColinWright 13y ago
  I hadn't noticed your poll, or your criticism. But I've gone and looked now, and, quite frankly, I'm shocked. I'm shocked that so many people on a site called Hacker News haven't explored, experimented, and generally poked and pried. I'm amazed that so many people just assumed the "New" meant "Make a new post", and that "Ask" meant "Ask a question", and didn't actually try them out! Do you really need every little detail spelled out for you? You claim your criticism was genuine - in return, this is a genuine question! Did you really not explore?
  - yeukhon 13y ago
    I don't know about others, but I did explore (which you can tell from my comment) and hence why I constantly feel the whole nav is broken and useless for the most part. > Do you really need every little detail spelled out for you? UX is essential and nav names should be as self-explanatory as possible. Naming New instead of Newest or Latest can be confused with "Create", hence I said Submit vs Create vs New. Even though HN is supposed to be a somewhat geeky place, UX is still important. If nav is a low-hanging fruit, then instead of coloring on Christmas, fix those navs in 3 minutes. If you can't even do that, I call that bullshit and lazy. If we go to stackoverflow, most of the navs are pretty self explanatory. Threads and comments are the worst. Threads show my latest comments, whereas comments show the latest comments from everyone. How the hell do we come up with these names in the first place? It sounds like legacy stuff that the developers never bother to remove or to fix. It is as if forward arrow is now downward arrow and backward arrow is the forward arrow. One word: mind fuck. I will give the creators a little credit because creators will have blind spot; they just don't notice the inconvenience as much as users do. And the final point is that nav should be helpful and is usually served as shortcut. So if I want to see all my threads, threads should show topics. Instead, the links under my profile makes more sense to me and I always end up (and some others too) clicking profile -> comments / submissions. That's two steps. :(

15 points by bushido 13y ago

frik 13y ago

I had the same shock moment too :) It reminds me of the Slashdot 1st April "Pony" edition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slashdot_omgponies.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slashdot_omgponies.png

tostitos1979 13y ago

What surprised me was the time of day it happened. 1-2pm EST?

bushido 13y ago
That surprised me too :)

elwell 13y ago

I didn't notice because I use a custom color for the header bar (settable on your profile page). I only noticed when I went to reply to a message. On that page the custom header color is not respected.

yeukhon 13y ago

Okay, but, it is time to fix those unconventional navigation items up there. Come on, it's been 71 days already. Can we fix them already? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6550469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6550469 I could fire up a vim and fix them if I were the developer. The time it took them to add the color changes would be better off for something long past due.

bushido 13y ago
Funnily enough, it was thanks to the Christmas theme that I realized that "Threads" was highlighted when I went to "Profile -> Comments" to view my comments. I have been doing the latter for years. PG does need to review the naming of those links.
ColinWright 13y ago
I hadn't noticed your poll, or your criticism. But I've gone and looked now, and, quite frankly, I'm shocked. I'm shocked that so many people on a site called Hacker News haven't explored, experimented, and generally poked and pried. I'm amazed that so many people just assumed the "New" meant "Make a new post", and that "Ask" meant "Ask a question", and didn't actually try them out! Do you really need every little detail spelled out for you? You claim your criticism was genuine - in return, this is a genuine question! Did you really not explore?
- yeukhon 13y ago
  I don't know about others, but I did explore (which you can tell from my comment) and hence why I constantly feel the whole nav is broken and useless for the most part. > Do you really need every little detail spelled out for you? UX is essential and nav names should be as self-explanatory as possible. Naming New instead of Newest or Latest can be confused with "Create", hence I said Submit vs Create vs New. Even though HN is supposed to be a somewhat geeky place, UX is still important. If nav is a low-hanging fruit, then instead of coloring on Christmas, fix those navs in 3 minutes. If you can't even do that, I call that bullshit and lazy. If we go to stackoverflow, most of the navs are pretty self explanatory. Threads and comments are the worst. Threads show my latest comments, whereas comments show the latest comments from everyone. How the hell do we come up with these names in the first place? It sounds like legacy stuff that the developers never bother to remove or to fix. It is as if forward arrow is now downward arrow and backward arrow is the forward arrow. One word: mind fuck. I will give the creators a little credit because creators will have blind spot; they just don't notice the inconvenience as much as users do. And the final point is that nav should be helpful and is usually served as shortcut. So if I want to see all my threads, threads should show topics. Instead, the links under my profile makes more sense to me and I always end up (and some others too) clicking profile -> comments / submissions. That's two steps. :(