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Let's change the HN title bar to #663399

113 points by tylerrooney 12y ago

Learn more: http://www.zeldman.com/2014/06/10/the-color-purple/ In Memory of Rebecca Meyer, help fund childhood cancer research: https://www.stbaldricks.org/donate/fundraiser/539/2014

jrochkind1 12y ago
I know lots of great people who have died, lots of good charitable efforts, and a few good charitable efforts connected to good people who have died. Can I get HN to put something in their banner every day for a different one?
zitterbewegung 12y ago
Uh, that can be set by users as a perk for having enough karma. I think we usually do black bars on the top.
opendais 12y ago
Its unreadable with that shade. I use #cccccc.
- antidaily 12y ago
  Try #BFBF9B.
  - opendais 12y ago
    That isn't a purple. I'm going to use #EED2EE which is thistle, close enough. ;)
- ashleyw 12y ago
  I've used #5ce7ff so long I sometimes forget the default is orange..
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
  The topbar text colour should change automatically to the one with the best contrast.
  - opendais 12y ago
    Really? It doesn't for me, never has.
    - TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
      I'm saying it should i.e. it ought to, not that it does, but I can see how you'd be confused.
      - opendais 12y ago
        My mistake. I'm confused easily :)
    - aroch 12y ago
      Contextually, I believe "should" is referring to what the OP would like HN to do not what HN does d.
raverbashing 12y ago
I use #ffaa33 as my default as it's a lighter shade The proposed color makes it unreadable, #aa99ff looks ok though
cwyers 12y ago
For those who didn't click the link, it's not a proposal to make the site more readable, it's part of a memorial effort.
- opendais 12y ago
  Yes, but I'd like to be able to still use the site and do the memorial bit at the same time, so I went with a lighter shade. ;)
theboss 12y ago
414141. I know I'm not alone out there =]
TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
#f6f6ef forever, baby. I like my seamless page.
freshyill 12y ago
Did nobody actually read the Zeldman post linked above? This was not intended to be a discussion of a redesign.
adamman 12y ago
#663399Becca would be even better. Edit: I was thinking page title. #663399 as the color for the header would be really nice too.
follyfalls 12y ago
I feel like I'm missing something here. A very young girl died of cancer. That's pretty sad, but I fail to see how it's anymore sad than the hundreds/thousands of people who die of cancer every day. Millions of people will have died of cancer by the end of this year. So we have all these people tweeting this hashtag and coloring their Twitter avatar purple, because Rebecca's favorite color was purple (no non-sequitur there). Why? Why are we mourning the death of this particular individual; what about her plight is so unique? To me it just seems like bandwagoning. Surely there's some aspect of this that I do not understand or of which I am unaware.
- cryptophreak 12y ago
  Many, many people who work on the Web are familiar with Eric Meyer and have used his Reset CSS, and so it feels more personal for some.
- auxbuss 12y ago
  I don't know Eric Meyer personally, but I've known him on the interwebs for decades. He's one of the folk from the early days who is very familiar to many of us. In the same way that I don't personally know Linus, Mark Andreesen, Tim Berners-Lee, et al, I remember the days on usenet when we all hung out and got shit done. I'm a nobody in the grand scheme of things -- and I'm quite okay with that -- but there have been thousands of us who made all the stuff we use today happen. Eric is one of those who made a little more impact than the rest of us anonymous folk. And for many of us who shared the delights of his work, we share his pain. If we only acknowledge the big names, the "celebrities" if you will, then we've lost our soul. The internet has been built by thousands, not a handful, and Eric is someone many of us associate with. That's why we are all sad today and why we want to show solidarity. Burying a parent is hard. I cannot fathom burying a six year old child.
- freshyill 12y ago
  People are doing this because Eric helped to take CSS from its infancy into the modern usage we have today. He wrote CSS: The Definitive Guide and many other books on the topics. He co-founded the An Event Apart conferences. Nearly every site on the internet has been directly or indirectly influenced by his work. Over the past year, he has documented, with great clarity, everything his family has experienced since his daughter fell ill on a family vacation last summer. I've met him at An Event Apart, and I can also say that he's a really nice guy. Now pay attention to this next part because it might be hard to follow. As humans, many of us empathize with this profound loss experienced by someone whose work has been so influential in our own careers. As humans, many of us have experienced similar loss. Many more of us, as parents, hope never to have to. If that's unclear, perhaps someone who is a better programmer than I can translate it into code and put it in a Gist.
fsiefken 12y ago
colour is like a mini brand, a sense of identity. the old freshmeat was orange too.
tylerrooney 12y ago
Perhaps I should have added more context to the title and text as the purpose of the post seems lost to most commenters. Rebecca Meyer is the daughter of Eric Meyer who you may know through through his two decades of work on behalf of web development and web standards. He is the author of Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide and the widely used Reset CSS (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/). I would assume that many (if not most) users of Hacker News have benefited from Eric's work. Rebecca died from cancer on Saturday on her 6th birthday. As per the link from Jeffrey Zeldman's blog, there is an effort to get #663399Becca trending today, (June 12th) in a show of solidarity.
DanBC 12y ago
A nice idea. I would prefer a link to donate to Watsi (any people with the same or similar illnesses?) or to some page covering latest best quality research (and some explanation of that research).
Mz 12y ago
And I can't help but wonder why this gets support but I am routinely downvoted and generally crapped for attempting to talk about what I have done to beat my medical death sentence. It is not intended to piss on this effort. I just honestly do not understand this. If you have genuine concern for other people, why say nice things only after they are dead? Why be so awful to the living? Why shout down someone trying to figure out how to help people with deadly conditions? I honestly do not know where to go anymore to try to talk to people and work on anything. This isn't intended at all as dickish. If people have so much compassion, why not try to support efforts to improve things?
- youaresolam3 12y ago
  Please, leave. This is not the appropriate forum for your rant. Start a new thread if you want to have this discussion.
  - Mz 12y ago
    It is not a rant and your ugly reply and the downvote my above comment got is just proving my point. I have no reason to believe that starting a new thread would be constructive. In fact, I have every reason to believe the response to that would be far uglier than the response to the above remark.
- illuminate 12y ago
  "And I can't help but wonder why this gets support but I am routinely downvoted and generally crapped for attempting to talk about what I have done to beat my medical death sentence" Since you're being so rude here, I will note that it is probably because you are an unreliable narrator who "cures" herself with blogsourced finds and people have little need for advice that is not based in reality. You post about being shunned by multiple CF communities, I would be willing to guess that it is not because they are afraid of any stunning discoveries you have made.
  - dang 12y ago
    Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, regardless of how strongly you disagree with someone. It's true that the GP's complaints about downvotes also break the HN guidelines, but being mean is much worse. Please don't.
planetjay 12y ago
Go the fuck away
owenversteeg 12y ago
For those that don't know, Eric Meyer is an extremely influential programmer, who dedicated a ton of time to improving CSS. Right now my laptop's resting on one of his books. He is as _why was to ruby or dmr was to C. Half of the CSS I've ever written wouldn't work without his contributions. I'm in favor of changing the title bar color temporarily.

113 points by tylerrooney 12y ago

Learn more: http://www.zeldman.com/2014/06/10/the-color-purple/ In Memory of Rebecca Meyer, help fund childhood cancer research: https://www.stbaldricks.org/donate/fundraiser/539/2014

jrochkind1 12y ago

I know lots of great people who have died, lots of good charitable efforts, and a few good charitable efforts connected to good people who have died. Can I get HN to put something in their banner every day for a different one?

zitterbewegung 12y ago

Uh, that can be set by users as a perk for having enough karma. I think we usually do black bars on the top.

opendais 12y ago

Its unreadable with that shade. I use #cccccc.

antidaily 12y ago
Try #BFBF9B.
- opendais 12y ago
  That isn't a purple. I'm going to use #EED2EE which is thistle, close enough. ;)
ashleyw 12y ago
I've used #5ce7ff so long I sometimes forget the default is orange..
TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
The topbar text colour should change automatically to the one with the best contrast.
- opendais 12y ago
  Really? It doesn't for me, never has.
  - TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
    I'm saying it should i.e. it ought to, not that it does, but I can see how you'd be confused.
    - opendais 12y ago
      My mistake. I'm confused easily :)
  - aroch 12y ago
    Contextually, I believe "should" is referring to what the OP would like HN to do not what HN does d.

raverbashing 12y ago

I use #ffaa33 as my default as it's a lighter shade The proposed color makes it unreadable, #aa99ff looks ok though

cwyers 12y ago

For those who didn't click the link, it's not a proposal to make the site more readable, it's part of a memorial effort.

opendais 12y ago
Yes, but I'd like to be able to still use the site and do the memorial bit at the same time, so I went with a lighter shade. ;)

theboss 12y ago

414141. I know I'm not alone out there =]

TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago

#f6f6ef forever, baby. I like my seamless page.

freshyill 12y ago

Did nobody actually read the Zeldman post linked above? This was not intended to be a discussion of a redesign.

adamman 12y ago

#663399Becca would be even better. Edit: I was thinking page title. #663399 as the color for the header would be really nice too.

follyfalls 12y ago

I feel like I'm missing something here. A very young girl died of cancer. That's pretty sad, but I fail to see how it's anymore sad than the hundreds/thousands of people who die of cancer every day. Millions of people will have died of cancer by the end of this year. So we have all these people tweeting this hashtag and coloring their Twitter avatar purple, because Rebecca's favorite color was purple (no non-sequitur there). Why? Why are we mourning the death of this particular individual; what about her plight is so unique? To me it just seems like bandwagoning. Surely there's some aspect of this that I do not understand or of which I am unaware.

cryptophreak 12y ago
Many, many people who work on the Web are familiar with Eric Meyer and have used his Reset CSS, and so it feels more personal for some.
auxbuss 12y ago
I don't know Eric Meyer personally, but I've known him on the interwebs for decades. He's one of the folk from the early days who is very familiar to many of us. In the same way that I don't personally know Linus, Mark Andreesen, Tim Berners-Lee, et al, I remember the days on usenet when we all hung out and got shit done. I'm a nobody in the grand scheme of things -- and I'm quite okay with that -- but there have been thousands of us who made all the stuff we use today happen. Eric is one of those who made a little more impact than the rest of us anonymous folk. And for many of us who shared the delights of his work, we share his pain. If we only acknowledge the big names, the "celebrities" if you will, then we've lost our soul. The internet has been built by thousands, not a handful, and Eric is someone many of us associate with. That's why we are all sad today and why we want to show solidarity. Burying a parent is hard. I cannot fathom burying a six year old child.
freshyill 12y ago
People are doing this because Eric helped to take CSS from its infancy into the modern usage we have today. He wrote CSS: The Definitive Guide and many other books on the topics. He co-founded the An Event Apart conferences. Nearly every site on the internet has been directly or indirectly influenced by his work. Over the past year, he has documented, with great clarity, everything his family has experienced since his daughter fell ill on a family vacation last summer. I've met him at An Event Apart, and I can also say that he's a really nice guy. Now pay attention to this next part because it might be hard to follow. As humans, many of us empathize with this profound loss experienced by someone whose work has been so influential in our own careers. As humans, many of us have experienced similar loss. Many more of us, as parents, hope never to have to. If that's unclear, perhaps someone who is a better programmer than I can translate it into code and put it in a Gist.

fsiefken 12y ago

colour is like a mini brand, a sense of identity. the old freshmeat was orange too.

tylerrooney 12y ago

Perhaps I should have added more context to the title and text as the purpose of the post seems lost to most commenters. Rebecca Meyer is the daughter of Eric Meyer who you may know through through his two decades of work on behalf of web development and web standards. He is the author of Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide and the widely used Reset CSS (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/). I would assume that many (if not most) users of Hacker News have benefited from Eric's work. Rebecca died from cancer on Saturday on her 6th birthday. As per the link from Jeffrey Zeldman's blog, there is an effort to get #663399Becca trending today, (June 12th) in a show of solidarity.

DanBC 12y ago

A nice idea. I would prefer a link to donate to Watsi (any people with the same or similar illnesses?) or to some page covering latest best quality research (and some explanation of that research).

Mz 12y ago

And I can't help but wonder why this gets support but I am routinely downvoted and generally crapped for attempting to talk about what I have done to beat my medical death sentence. It is not intended to piss on this effort. I just honestly do not understand this. If you have genuine concern for other people, why say nice things only after they are dead? Why be so awful to the living? Why shout down someone trying to figure out how to help people with deadly conditions? I honestly do not know where to go anymore to try to talk to people and work on anything. This isn't intended at all as dickish. If people have so much compassion, why not try to support efforts to improve things?

youaresolam3 12y ago
Please, leave. This is not the appropriate forum for your rant. Start a new thread if you want to have this discussion.
- Mz 12y ago
  It is not a rant and your ugly reply and the downvote my above comment got is just proving my point. I have no reason to believe that starting a new thread would be constructive. In fact, I have every reason to believe the response to that would be far uglier than the response to the above remark.
illuminate 12y ago
"And I can't help but wonder why this gets support but I am routinely downvoted and generally crapped for attempting to talk about what I have done to beat my medical death sentence" Since you're being so rude here, I will note that it is probably because you are an unreliable narrator who "cures" herself with blogsourced finds and people have little need for advice that is not based in reality. You post about being shunned by multiple CF communities, I would be willing to guess that it is not because they are afraid of any stunning discoveries you have made.
- dang 12y ago
  Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, regardless of how strongly you disagree with someone. It's true that the GP's complaints about downvotes also break the HN guidelines, but being mean is much worse. Please don't.

planetjay 12y ago

Go the fuck away

owenversteeg 12y ago

For those that don't know, Eric Meyer is an extremely influential programmer, who dedicated a ton of time to improving CSS. Right now my laptop's resting on one of his books. He is as _why was to ruby or dmr was to C. Half of the CSS I've ever written wouldn't work without his contributions. I'm in favor of changing the title bar color temporarily.