Ask HN: topcolor stopped working

1 point·akjainaj··5 comments

So that's it... I had a topcolor set but it was reset to ff6600 and I can't change it anymore. Is it buggy or something?

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Topcolor doesn't work until you have 250 karma. A bug is currently displaying the setting even to users who don't have the karma to change it. Sorry! That's super annoying. We'll fix it.

Edit: it's fixed now, meaning that the setting is no longer displayed when it shouldn't be. Sorry for tantalizing.

Edit 2: I was looking for the post where pg first introduced the topcolor feature as a reward for karma, which I remember from years ago, but couldn't find it. If anybody can find it please let me know!

Perhaps "A visual thank-you to the top submitters": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97573

And here's pg talking about a bit of programming he did to find the topcolors that people are using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98265

EDIT: I have grumbled about the Algolia search in the past, and I need to apologise to them. It's pretty good. The minor problem I have is that I'd prefer it to remember that I want to search comments (usually not stories), and I prefer to order by date, not points. And it doesn't return dead comments, but I guess I understand that.

You found it! And here's the linked article at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20080130060616/http://ycombinato....

Changing topcolor is unlocked by karma. I believe the required karma is 250.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438957

You may have been above 250 at one point and since dipped back below. As of this comment it looks like you have 245.

Try emailing the mods hn@ycombinator.com , they usually reply sooner because this threads are sometime unnoticed.

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