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How do I get my username in green on Hacker News?

by oxygenz on 9/6/20, 6:13 PM with 6 comments

• by detaro on 9/6/20, 6:15 PM

  It marks new accounts (I think created in the last 14 days)

• by Pick-A-Hill2019 on 9/6/20, 6:27 PM

  I was about to add a snarky "Easy answer: Read the HN F.A.Q. level comment but after a bit of looking around the answer isn't obvious (yet somehow I sort of knew it through being a HN user) and using the Search box didn't return anything useful so instead of snark I used a bit of google-fu & here's your answer. HTH.

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2456602

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848762

  TLDR; Green Accounts are for users who are under 5 days old. You can see all their submissions at - http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

  [Edit to add, Or perhaps it is 14 days as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848820]

  Double Edit: Confirmed, 14 days (not 5). See https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented for a full list

• by DanBC on 9/6/20, 6:14 PM

  New users have a green username. This is so you can provide friendly, helpful, notes to those users.