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Ask HN: Why is the text of a Hacker News post displayed in grey?

by g4zj on 8/17/24, 4:26 PM with 3 comments

Due to the way the text of a comment becomes an increasingly light shade of grey the more that comment is voted down, it seems an odd choice to display the text of a post such as this one in grey as opposed to black. It always takes me a moment to remember that I'm not necessarily viewing an unpopular post.
  • by dave4420 on 8/17/24, 4:43 PM

    It’s to discourage text posts.

    They’d rather you posted it to Medium or your blog or something, and then post a link to that here.