I thought that the red banner was a call to arms for SOPA or something. After I noticed that the article numbers were alternating red/green, my blood pressure went down a few points. :)
ditto that. Most of the time I don't notice the effects of red-green color deficiency, but whenever someone wants to differentiate between A and B with colors, inevitably it's red/green.
Not much to do about it with xmas colors though. Bah humbug to poinsettias.
At a glance it looks gray and gray. If I stare, I can make out the red and can see that the green is a different color, but I really only recognize that it's green because people mentioned it being green.
So, I concur with the bah humbug to colorblindness statements.
I didn't even notice the colored numbers until I read the comments. For myself, the colors are easy enough to distinguish (as separate colors), as the red looks brighter than the green.
If I didn't already know the colors were red and green, I think I'd be able to pick out the one that is clearly red (As there is a shade of red for sure in the title bar), but I do not believe I'd be able to say with certainty that the green is green (and not another shade of red).
If the red bothers you, go to your profile page and set the "topcolor" to something that you like better. (This might require a certain karma level, not sure.)
Happy Holidays to my hacker family! This was my first year really contributing to posts and discussions and it's been incredibly rewarding. Thanks everyone!
This was making me feel like there was something wrong with my eyes. It took me about a minute to figure out it was the site and not me; I didn't figure it out until I spotted the article numbers.
The contrast in the bar is really low, so I can't wait until it's not Christmas any longer.
In re: "Christmas from Down Under" (and the southern hemisphere in general): I always think it's a trip that y'all are in the peak of summer at Christmas time. We have all kinds of songs, rituals, artifacts, whatever that derive from the fact that it's cold outside: I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas; tinsel on christmas trees to simulate icicles; drinking Eggnog.
Question: do you Christmas bits reflect that it's winter outside somewhere else or do you have a separate bunch of Christmas bits to reflect that it's summer during your Christmas?
I honestly cannot speak for everyone, of course we have our own Aussie Christmas carols with your reindeers replaced with kangaroos which to me seem more to be satire. But we have still been Nothern-hemispherized in the traditional christmas sense. Our decorations have snow, every figurine is rugged up etc. I could send you a picture of my christmas tree, it would be indistinguishable from your generic tree.
It surely doesn't snow in all parts of the Northern Hemispher and I guess you can draw similarities to that. The funny thing is, for more Christmas's then I can remember, it has actually been quite wet and stormy, today it is beautiful and sunny.
First, I thought Reddit isn't the most ugliest site on earth anymore. Then, I thought HN's CSS file is broken when I saw the darkred navbar.
Finally, I thought the green and red numbers stand for raising and falling posts.
HN is my favorite site but this Chistmas version shows again PG's modest design skills. PG, I'm sure that there many HN users (including me) who would love to redesign HN—just put it on Crowdspring or 99design and insist on keeping the HN orange. I promise you'll get tons of great designs keeping Y Combinator's core/identity.
Merry Christmas!