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A visual thank-you to the top submitters

34 pointsby 18y agoycombinator.com
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18y agoHN ↗

Thanks.

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

18y agoHN ↗

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?).

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

try F6F6EF - makes the ycombinator logo stand out more

18y agoHN ↗

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.

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

This is quite a clever way to reward users.

18y agoHN ↗

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.

18y agoHN ↗

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.

18y agoHN ↗

I'm offended by your #FFFFFF supremacist views.

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

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.

18y agoHN ↗

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

Please ...

18y agoHN ↗

Perhaps you should have phrased your request in smartass form.

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

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.

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

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.

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

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;"

18y agoHN ↗

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.

18y agoHN ↗

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...

18y agoHN ↗

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.

18y agoHN ↗

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.

18y agoHN ↗

"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.

18y agoHN ↗

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

18y agoHN ↗

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