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Comment by Marlinski | Hacker News Reader

That bright yellow background imprinted my eyes for 5 minutes, there's other way to leave an impression than fucking up with my senses, like writing a clear concise article instead of a never ending list of examples interrupted with distracting fake mouse move.

An horrible web experience through and through.

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I quite like the yellow. You should try and use your brightness slider, because it is not brighter than most real world yellow (i.e. illuminated by the sun which is orders of magnitude brighter than your screen)

Unless you are adapted to live in a darkened cave, that is.

If you like a yellow background, I guarantee you are an outlier

Fully agreed, it's an awful choice. I had to click the Reader View icon before I'd finished reading the first screen.

The mouse pointers are a prime example of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".

> with distracting fake mouse move.

These are multiplayer cursors. You're seeing other people using the website

Funny enough, I just told my wife how unique I thought it was. It stands out. It's memorable.

I know I've read many of his posts over the last year because of that mustard yellow background. It's a strong branding choice.

Not saying your opinion is wrong, but for some reason I found myself consciously liking the yellow a lot, which is rare for an article background color for me

Yeah, I had to add background-color: lightgray to the css, and disable javascript to get rid of the cursors to make it the site usable.

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