At first I thought it was similar to the HN black bar, paying respect to someone they lost. But I guess it is there to stay

Yeah, seems more similar to Google's old black navigation bar. (i.e. http://gizmodo.com/5816772/how-to-get-rid-of-googles-big-bla...)

The timing of this is a funny coincidence as Stack Overflow has just been rolling out their own new navigation topbar [0] to the sounds of "PLEASE, theme it dark" from their meta community. A lot of it just sounds like bikeshedding to me, but it's funny timing nonetheless.

[0]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/343106/2619939

This is why I prefer local clients to "the web". Everyone has these religious level opinions on the "right" way to style things.

I'm all about the socialized design and implementation of the pipes and tubes. When it comes to the front end, the part I'll be expected to stare at all day, that should look and behave how I see fit.

Customizable clients, with sane defaults for everything! And we'll avoid this sitting around bellyaching about personal tastes all day.

1. i don't like it, contrast too jarring.

2. why is this front-page worthy? is there someone who might have missed this? is it especially important/interesting?

it's like those stupid "Github is down!" posts. i'm sure anyone who cares already knows.

who upvotes this crap?

It seems that I am unable to change the theme back to light.

Have tried:

- https://github.com

- https://github.com/?light

Is this controlled from a setting somewhere?

It seems to be a class `header-dark`

if you remove it it's back to light

This seems kinda pointless without the remainder being dark-themed as well.

I agree it actually bothers me more like this (and I normally love dark themes!)

I ended up "fixing" this by installing the Stylish extension/plugin on Chrome, then downloading a dark theme (then I went crazy and did the same with a bunch of other sites, too - including HN)...

Exactly! And stands out too much from the rest of the content for my taste...

This makes it harder to tell at a glance whether I'm on github.com or GitHub Enterprise.

It appears to work w/out the `?dark`: https://github.com/

i think OP did it to break the "this link has already been posted" HN filter

I do wish Github had a dark theme option at least. Sometimes I do a lot of reading on there at night, and all that white is too much.

It looks like they are adding options to choose from different styles. I don't see the link yet in my account settings but this screenshot makes me think it's coming to everyone. https://twitter.com/jublonet/status/830131346798424064

The author of that tweet added a follow-up that it's not a real screenshot, just a mockup.

I use Stylish on Safari and Chrome with both the GitHub Dark and Hacker News Dark themes. My eyes couldn't be happier.

https://userstyles.org/styles/37035/github-dark https://userstyles.org/styles/113994/hacker-news-dark

For anyone considering using stylish on chrome, you should know that the latest update turned on tracking by default. It will send your current url to fetch a list of "styles for this url", but does it even when the popup isn't visible. You can check by looking at the network tab of the `background.js`.

I've been using Stylish (https://userstyles.org/styles/browse/github) for this -- works pretty well.

I have a dark theme for GitHub from userstyles.org enabled. I've never run into any issues with it.

Stylish for Chrome and Firefox have a couple excellent dark themes that are regularly updated.

Link: https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark

Same here, although this seems to be more of a mistake, I would very much like a dark theme

Better for all of those AMOLED phones too.

Is this purposeful or a mistake? If mistake, I'm surprised it hasn't been reverted yet.

I would say it's a mistake, but you never know. This style has been used for github enterprise to make it "differentiate" from github.com, I don't think it's a good idea to make them look the same...

Broke https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deluminate/iebboop...

Github for Enterprise has had a dark bar for a while, possibly to distinguish it from Github.com

I hate it, I can't even see my (mostly black) avatar against the black background.

Before everybody goes crazy. You can change the header to the light version again by going into your Settings -> Design.

Some people are still missing this option in their settings, but it will show up soon.

Source? The screenshot in that one tweet was fake ("a mock-up"), as the author themself stated.

I wonder if there's any significance too this.

I wish I could undo this with ?light.

>:[

It's ugly.

The stark contrast with the rest of the site hurts.

Why?