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Hacker News goes Christmas

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I just had my color scheme change to red & green. Let's crack out the egg nog and celebrate!

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Blast! I thought PG had finally made me a moderator.

I assumed the red items were those that needed my immediate attention. The pattern was just a coincidence, of course.

Sorry dcurtis, but the day Paul Graham makes danhau a moderator is the day hell freezes over.

;(

I was wondering what that was. I thought it was pointing out rising stories or something.

Decorative colors? Markup that doesn't have some semantic meaning? How strange.

;)

Maybe for next Christmas he can let us choose our own CSS theme :-D.

The day Paul Graham uses CSS is the day hell freezes over.

never say never!

Haha yes, that's why I made the comment.

Regardless a choose your own table christmas adventure would be fine for next year.

http://ycombinator.com/news.css

(Braces used in a Lisp-style, naturally.)

Actually I'm not against CSS constructs. I'll use them when they're convenient. The problem is that saying this to CSS zealots is like saying to the ancient Hebrews that one will worship Yahweh along with all the other gods.

Sounds like how we are with funding.

CSS is pretty much universally a superior way to manage your page styling, which is why us "CSS Zealots" have that attitude.

Oh no...here we go again.

I could really care less as long as everything works, except for one little thing, since nothing has classes or IDs, it makes it much more difficult for me to tweak my userstyle all the ways I want to. I know this isn't anyone else's problem, but it would sure be nice if there were classes and IDs that didn't have any CSS by default, but anyone could use as reference to style the site themselves.

Sorry dude, that's not enough of a counter argument to eternity's evidence that separating content from presentation is A Good Thing.

Haha it wasn't a counter argument (as I tend to agree with you), it was commentary about what happens over and over again: two opposite sides arguing with no one changing their minds.

Your apology is accepted anyway - Merry Christmas :).

What makes me think one ought to be able to style your websites however one wants?

People can choose to style their pages however they please.

Those are not the same?

Oh dear god, see what you've done pg? Now he's going to blow a trumpet and the hordes will be coming over the hills any minute now.

We better take this vanguard out before the larger group notices. Move quickly.

How dare you!

You can do that yourself for pretty much any site with the Stylish extension for Firefox, which lets you tweak CSS of websites you visit. It turns out to be surprisingly easy to write your own color scheme or whatever. I actually use my own for hacker news because the default one makes it hard to see the links on the front page that I've already clicked on. http://arvindn.livejournal.com/98803.html

PG should keep track of votes and see if there are statistically significant differences depending on the color of numbers. It'd be quite interesting if the same article gets more votes when it has a red number, as opposed to green.

Yes.

Because PG has nothing better to do with his time.

We really go all out for the holidays here at Hacker News.

Eggnog + Cognac = happy Tipjoy household

I'm on board with the brandy and eggnog, but the cognac is going too far.

Too far!

So what's everyone doing for Christmas?

I've Sinatra on loop on the living room speakers and I'll be waltzing with my lady for a few hours before we depart for a Christmas ski trip.

I thought something was wrong at first. The alternating Red Green numbers are a nice touch. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

I thought I had been suddenly given the ability to change the menu bar colour... :(

blink tag anyone?

I wonder if it still works on modern browsers ;-)

Anyway the HN christmass mod really made me laugh.

BLINK still works in mozilla-based browsers, afaik

I was so confused when I landed on the homepage just now. I'm on my little brother's MacBook and thought his colors were off - then I put red + green together and the light went off. :)

It's been a long week.

Bah humbug!

:-) Same thing happened last year as well!

Am I the only one who immediately went to acct preferences to see if this is turn off-able? ;-)

What about the festival of lights??

Oh, that's what this gaudy red is for. Merry Christmas.

It was a bit bright. How's this?

Not too dark to read, but dark enough (at least on my screen) that it's a bit uncomfortable. Other than that the theme is quite pleasant.

How about a nice green (#55af55)?

I like it.

Please bring back the orange header! Am I the only one whose eyes hurt when looking at the red one?

I only see the red one when I submit a comment/article...the main view is still orange

It's probably your cache, try Ctrl-F5

So which part implies Christian- the Hacker or the News? (I actually celebrate xmas....just sayin though)

The official religion of Hacker News is FSM, but a reform sect that celebrates Christmas.

I'm not even sure it's a sect: http://www.venganza.org/2008/12/23/happy-holidays-from-finla...

All celebrate the noodly appendage.

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