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Website colour scheme
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Website colour scheme, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Green version hurts the eyes and black-on-green text is hard to read2026-06-06
- No visible button to toggle the color scheme; preferences hidden or missing2025-11-11
- Light pink text on dark purple causes eye strain and is hard to read2022-05-18
- Site colours are unreadable by default, requiring users to disable CSS rules2021-05-04
- Body text sits right against the left edge, making it awkward to read full screen2013-11-20