Someone should make a compendium of all the "Tell HN: Merry Christmas" and corresponding "Ask HN: Why did the colors change?" threads over the years. It would be fun, and is probably be a good fit for semantic search.
The Christmas color scheme is a bit off for me. The title bar is too light to read.
I turned off my dark theme and the page became high-contrast chromatic in my browser. It is readable like that, if brutally so.
The red looks great overall. Changing the text to white might improve contrast and readability. I experimented with red in my app, but it didn’t work visually, so I moved to a snowfall theme.
it's beyond dumb to change the color to red but keep the text black.
I'm pretty sure you have better things to do with your time than complain about a website's colour scheme on Christmas.
Go outside and touch some grass.
and green
Wrong answers only! It's a secret feature of HN, like the black bar, but for when someone has made Dan angry.
It's not red! You're just colorblind.
Black bar?
It’s like a grizzly bar, but mostly found on the east coast.
dan has recently joined the DSA, and redone the color scheme in kind. thank you comrade!