A visual thank-you to the top submitters(ycombinator.com)

34 pointsby pg19 tahun yang lalu52 comments

A visual thank-you to the top submitters

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html?12jan08

53 comments

dang5 tahun yang lalu

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

dcurtis19 tahun yang lalu

Thanks.

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

jkush19 tahun yang lalu

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?).

ash19 tahun yang lalu

Yes, it's orange.

nickb19 tahun yang lalu

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.

pg19 tahun yang lalu

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

dcurtis19 tahun yang lalu

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

jamiequint19 tahun yang lalu

#3399ff looks great

nickb19 tahun yang lalu

Thanks pg!

I'm set on: 5899c9

mrtron19 tahun yang lalu

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

iamelgringo19 tahun yang lalu

Indeed, they are questionable. :)

pg19 tahun yang lalu

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

german19 tahun yang lalu

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

rokhayakebe19 tahun yang lalu

nice

mattmaroon19 tahun yang lalu

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

immad19 tahun yang lalu

just for jokes! :P

chaostheory19 tahun yang lalu

try F6F6EF - makes the ycombinator logo stand out more

akkartik19 tahun yang lalu

Or ffbb88

akkartik19 tahun yang lalu

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.

RyanGWU8219 tahun yang lalu

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

whacked_new19 tahun yang lalu

This is quite a clever way to reward users.

vlad19 tahun yang lalu

You're welcome!

(lol)

webwright19 tahun yang lalu

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.

kyro19 tahun yang lalu

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.

eru19 tahun yang lalu

Automatic funding? ;)

carpal19 tahun yang lalu

#FFFFFF all the way

mynameishere19 tahun yang lalu

I'm offended by your #FFFFFF supremacist views.

icky19 tahun yang lalu

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

kyro19 tahun yang lalu

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.

nickb19 tahun yang lalu

[x] #00FF00

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

luccastera19 tahun yang lalu

eeeeee

tocomment19 tahun yang lalu

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

Please ...

eru19 tahun yang lalu

Perhaps you should have phrased your request in smartass form.

mwerty19 tahun yang lalu

you mean 'your request'.

kyro19 tahun yang lalu

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

eru19 tahun yang lalu

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.

randallsquared19 tahun yang lalu

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

dcurtis19 tahun yang lalu

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

randallsquared19 tahun yang lalu

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.

pg19 tahun yang lalu

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

corentin19 tahun yang lalu

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;"

daniel-cussen18 tahun yang lalu

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.

mwerty19 tahun yang lalu

Serves me right.

[deleted]19 tahun yang lalu

iamelgringo19 tahun yang lalu

WOOT! 888888

kirubakaran19 tahun yang lalu

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...

Tichy19 tahun yang lalu

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.

kirubakaran19 tahun yang lalu

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.

edw51919 tahun yang lalu

"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.

pg19 tahun yang lalu

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

curi18 tahun yang lalu

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

curi18 tahun yang lalu

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