Why is text of sumissions in low-contrast grey on HN?

Re:Why is text of sumissions in low-contrast grey on HN? by TheDong on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @08:32AM (#37927684)

Hacker news is a site for "hackers", which is to say people who like to tinker and explore.

Making the css awful is part of the experience. It encourages you to learn how to tinker with your way of consuming the web to be able to override that css and make it readable.

I'm pretty sure the majority of iphone jailbreaks have been to allow customizing hacker news's css in ios safari.

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Re:Why is text of sumissions in low-contrast grey on HN? by Warwolt on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @08:34AM (#37927704)

What an insane justification for making a site have accessibility issues. Hacking should be for the joy of it, not to undo someone else's poor judgement.

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Re:Why is text of sumissions in low-contrast grey on HN? by gremlinunderway on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @08:39AM (#37927757)

LOL, HN is owned by a major VC-funder, its not some grassroots hacker website.

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Re:Why is text of sumissions in low-contrast grey on HN? by fturst on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:35AM (#37929286)

Unrelated: Any 'grassroots hacker website' that doesnt echo the same thing over and over :/?

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Re:Why is text of sumissions in low-contrast grey on HN? by TheDong on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:54AM (#37929583)

May I suggest joining the fediverse and following the right set of people.

You could try lobsters, but it's basically the same as this site, with maybe 30% fewer transphobic techbros.

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Re:Why is text of sumissions in low-contrast grey on HN? by krapp on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @02:32PM (#37932737)

It's also literally the MVP for pg's toy lisp implementation.

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