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Ask HN: Why does GitHub have a black bar?

24 pointssimplehuman18 comments

Is this their new design or did something bad happen? If it's the former, I am lost for words. Why such a depressing color?

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I thought someone important had died...

That one gave me a good laugh ;-)

"Dark header has arrived on http://GitHub.com for desktop and mobile! First of many iterative design changes coming"

https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440

I thought it was browser rendering error but I was wrong.

I thought it was CSS error but I was wrong.

I thought it was about Trump's act but I was wrong.

How can it be the new design? The title bar should never be the focus of the layout but now it is. It catches our attention before the content which is more important.

OMG, please tell me they will roll that back, it's stupid but i can't focus anymore on the code, I just see a black bar with a lot of contrast in my screen... It's funny that so many people got the same impression than me, that something was going very very wrong

I don't understand why they're changing anything, I always looked up to GitHub's design as one of the best looking and consistent designs on the Internet. The new black bar looks very bland, out of place and definitely worse than previous one. This feels like a change for the sake of it...

Part of design upgrades. A responsive mobile design also coming the way https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830505943800573952

https://medium.com/@cwodtke/users-dont-hate-change-they-hate...

Hah! I felt so strongly about it I made a chrome extension to put it back to how it was.

Which is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619401

Oh, thanks for this! I cannot stand github with the new design

If you also dislike the new black navigation bar: https://github.com/victor-li/github-white-navbar

The designers at github must be going through some pretty dour times...

did it happen around the same time as Topics? I think topics are very useful. Much easier to find related repos than searching through a fork

This needs to be optional, it looks terrible.

I thought I'd been marked..

It looks pretty odd to me too.

GothHub..

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