Ask HN: Why does GitHub have a black bar?

Hah! I felt so strongly about it I made a chrome extension to put it back to how it was.

"Dark header has arrived on http://GitHub.com for desktop and mobile! First of many iterative design changes coming"

https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440

This needs to be optional, it looks terrible.

I thought I'd been marked..

I don't understand why they're changing anything, I always looked up to GitHub's design as one of the best looking and consistent designs on the Internet. The new black bar looks very bland, out of place and definitely worse than previous one. This feels like a change for the sake of it...

It looks pretty odd to me too.

The designers at github must be going through some pretty dour times...

If you also dislike the new black navigation bar: https://github.com/victor-li/github-white-navbar

I thought someone important had died...

Part of design upgrades. A responsive mobile design also coming the way https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830505943800573952

I thought it was browser rendering error but I was wrong.

I thought it was CSS error but I was wrong.

I thought it was about Trump's act but I was wrong.

How can it be the new design? The title bar should never be the focus of the layout but now it is. It catches our attention before the content which is more important.

did it happen around the same time as Topics? I think topics are very useful. Much easier to find related repos than searching through a fork

OMG, please tell me they will roll that back, it's stupid but i can't focus anymore on the code, I just see a black bar with a lot of contrast in my screen... It's funny that so many people got the same impression than me, that something was going very very wrong

GothHub..

You can use "github navbar color" chrome plugin to remove the black navigation bar of github. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-navbar-colo...