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A visual thank-you to the top submitters

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The above link has long since broken but you can see it at https://web.archive.org/web/20080115223854/http://ycombinato....

I currently use 99bbaa. It's a sort of 1950s English green.

Great, I'm using 6ED757, actually when replying I realized that the top bar is still orange.

Here are all the colors chosen by at least one person: http://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors.

cafff6 and e2e2e2 are light and refreshing.

Very cool way to reward users. Perhaps once 500 karma points are hit, a user should get an automatic spot in one of the YC sessions. Thoughts?

EDIT: I was being sarcastic. Loosen up.

Automatic funding? ;)

Why would anyone want the top bar to not be orange?

ff8822 is the one true YC orange.

The orange in the logo is ff6500, but it looks darker on the larger nav bar and with black text on, so you have to compensate.

ff9900 for me. (My first job was at a startup, that was one of our logo colors.)

try F6F6EF - makes the ycombinator logo stand out more

Or ffbb88

just for jokes! :P

Thanks! PG, can you let us customize the whole CSS?

(That will help people who can't use Firefox at their day job / all computers that they log in will have same YCN style)

Also you may want to give this facility to everyone and give something else to us 200+ers... May be 5 down votes that we can use on submissions per month...

I'd rather pg working more on essays or other features than on something like that.

Isn't the point of CSS that people can customize it in their browsers anyway?

Another idea: create a proxy that modifies the CSS, then all your computers could go through that proxy for your modified version of news.yc.

With Firefox, also check out Greasemoney.

It has been a long time since we got an essay from him, yes.

BTW, I was just speaking for people with day job who can't use Firefox. Anyway, proxy should work in that case.

"I'd rather pg working more on essays or other features than on something like that."

I would posit that excellence in journalism is achieved when releases are scheduled not with the passage of time but with the need to say something.

I imagine we'll hear from pg when he has something to say. And I'm sure we'll be ready to listen.

A clever feature would be to evaluate the brightness of the color and swap the text color to white if it's a dark color. A black bar with white text would look swanky on Halloween.

This is quite a clever way to reward users.

I have ffbb22 going on, but I think my color selections are questionable. Can anyone confirm this? :)

Indeed, they are questionable. :)

Thanks.

I made the top bar white, and it really makes everything dramatically cleaner looking.

I'm very color blind and have been told my designs are "a bit ugly." Therefore, I think I'll stick with orange (it is orange isn't it?).

Got a Mac? Grab this: http://color-decoder.en.softonic.com/mac

A buddy of mine that's color blind uses it all the time now. He showed it to me some time ago... I bookmarked.

Yes, it's orange.

A bit too clean, I bet, if you click on one of the top links...

Yeah, can you change the active/inactive link color to #ccc? Or make it customizable?

#FFFFFF all the way

I'm offended by your #FFFFFF supremacist views.

#FFFFFFey always be keepin' the #000000 man down!

Please check the appropriate boxes regarding your ethnicity:

[ ] #FFFFFF

[ ] #FFFF00

[ ] #C78D4E

[ ] #000000

[ ] Other - #_ _ _ _ _ _

In all seriousness, most standardized tests / school apps seem to come across this way.

[x] #00FF00

It's not easy being green.......

Thanks pg!

I'm set on: 5899c9

You're welcome!

(lol)

#3399ff looks great

nice

WOOT! 888888

eeeeee

Huh, apparently you need 251 Karma. What a non-round milestone.

So, if anyone forgets the original color (which I might do, again) it is ff6600.

Can everyone mod this up so I can reach 250? (I only need 20 more)

Please ...

Perhaps you should have phrased your request in smartass form.

you mean 'your request'.

You should learn how to properly capitalize your words, and that quotation marks come after periods.

The quote-after-period thing is a rule I deliberately break. I dun like it. It's just not me.

Actually in England the rule is the other way around. It is arguably more consistent.

I've noticed that, over time, programmers (including myself) tend to break some punctuation rules. I guess it's because we don't write:

char *foo = "bar;"

The convention in question is actually a technique American typesetters used to keep track of the punctuation. It doesn't exist because it makes sense, but because of a trick of the trade.

Yeah, I run red lights because I dun like them. They're just not me.

Yeah, I hate it when I reorder my quotes and periods and people get killed. No, wait... I don't think that's really a good analogy.

Maybe I slightly exaggerated.

Oh, I am closet spelling and grammar nazi myself. I just wish I could edit posts for longer - since English is not my first language I can seldom spare the concentration needed for flawless writing.

Serves me right.

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