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Re:Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly? by reinier_s4g on Saturday April 19, 2014 @06:24PM (#7614941)
Right, we all have done crawling and scraping, I even have my own framework build for it, man do I love that stuff... but if you think that's the right way to go about it we are just not in the same page.

I understand you like HN as it is, and i guess an idea would be to have optional themes, that will be more democratic.

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Re:Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly? by ColinWright on Sunday April 20, 2014 @11:25AM (#7617061) 

    I have made this letter longer than usual,
        because I lack the time to make it short.

        -- Blaise Pascal
           Lettres Provinciales (1656-1657), no. 16.
           (According to WikiPedia[1])
I've replied at considerable length - despite its blunt tone and clear disagreement I hope you accept it in the constructive spirit in which I intend it. It's too long to include here, so I've posted it elsewhere[0].

[0] http://www.solipsys.co.uk/Writings/HN_7617061.txt

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_re...

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Re:Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly? by krapp on Saturday April 19, 2014 @06:40PM (#7615010)
The weird thing is, at a certain karma level, you can change the top bar color.

And that's it, as far as I know. You can't even change the top bar text color as well. It's like the one user-editable part of this site is also the least useful feature imaginable.

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