Have to say, when I saw the dark top-bar, I presumed it must be part of another go-dark internet protest about something, and wondered why there was no announcement.
Glad to see I can get rid if it (in Chrome at least).
I much prefer dark themes, but I find the new header really ugly and clashing with everything else. A full dark theme could be cool, though. Just changing the header is lazy.
It still is for me. This is the new web reality where everything is only eventually consistent and at any given point in time you're being A/B tested on some bullshit idea.
The latest Stylish update in chrome introduced tracking btw. It now "calls home" by fetching the "recommended styles for this site" even when the popup isn't open. You can check the network traffic in the `background.js`.
I remember when Google search stopped using underlines on their search result links... I couldn't stand it. Now I'd probably have the same reaction if they switched back.
For a minute there I thought something happened in the world that I was not made aware of. I didn't see Hacker News change their bar so it was just an unexplained github style change.
Github should have used the eBay approach where you gradually alter your look to avoid triggering revolt. Fade the banner from light gray to dark gray over the period of a few months!
> At eBay, they learned the hard way that their users don’t like dramatic change. One day, the folks at eBay decided they no longer liked the bright yellow background on many of their pages, so they just changed it to a white background. Instantly, they started receiving emails from customers, bemoaning the change. So many people complained, that they felt forced to change it back.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 90.5 ms ] threadGlad to see I can get rid if it (in Chrome at least).
Personally, I like the dark bar, though at first it was confusing since the dark bar is usually associated with GitHub Enterprise.
[1] https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830149416556191744
Stylish makes the most sense, because it is a CSS-only solution. Using javascript for this sort of thing is hackish.
https://userstyles.org/styles/37035/github-dark
Here's a greasemonkey script I'm using: https://gist.github.com/Zren/8726ccca22659baaeb055fd0258df76...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/revie...
https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440
https://articles.uie.com/death_of_relaunch/
> At eBay, they learned the hard way that their users don’t like dramatic change. One day, the folks at eBay decided they no longer liked the bright yellow background on many of their pages, so they just changed it to a white background. Instantly, they started receiving emails from customers, bemoaning the change. So many people complained, that they felt forced to change it back.
I want to see the full README and the code, not the irrelevant stuff cluttering the mobile page.
That makes me so confused about my likes.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...
theres really no need to make a separate extension for every website, unless you are trying to make a statement