I am baffled by how Github thought this was a meaningful design change.<p>It looks jarring to have a top bar that has such a high contrast with the rest of the page. Not to mention the color palette used is very...odd. Very off white and pure black (255, 255, 255) do not go well together. They could have at least made the entire site dark themed in which I doubt there would be so much drama around it.
To the GitHubbers reading this thread, I like the dark menubar. I thought it was a feature of GitHub Enterprise only though, to distinguish the two :) I guess not!
Just a heads up that these extensions will stop working soon.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830149416556191744" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830149416556191744</a><p>Most of these extensions popping up that revert GitHub's header to white are simply removing the `.header-dark` class which (currently) applies the dark styles and according to @mdo the styles will be permanently applied as a default.<p>The only way to revert them after this would be to reapply the old styles so if someone really wants that they might want to save them now.
For the people that don't like the black bar. It can easily be reverted using the stylish addon.
This addon is available for Firefox and Chrome and allows you to add custom styling to any website.<p>Made a Gist with the styling that will revert the black bar to it's original light grey header.<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/babobski/41b29114a3c774bd018f75bd4fffc872" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/babobski/41b29114a3c774bd018f75bd4ff...</a><p>And the Stylish addons can be found here:
FF:
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/</a><p>Chrome:
<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish-custom-themes-for/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish-custom-the...</a>
I coincidentally started using GitHub Dark with Stylish just a few days before these changes went live. I love it: <a href="https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark</a>
I think the dark bar is great. Makes the design a lot more clear. I finally understand it:<p>1) Black Bar: General Github stuff<p>2) White Stuff: Repository Specific Content<p>Now, if they could only put the link to the releases section in a place where you can find it, that would make the page perfect.
Sorry to break the news but this is already done: <a href="https://github.com/DennisSnijder/MakeGithubGreatAgain" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/DennisSnijder/MakeGithubGreatAgain</a>
Fix the github and gist dark menubar with userscript
<a href="https://github.com/devmessias/whygithub" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/devmessias/whygithub</a>
could this be the reason for the dark navbar <a href="https://action.github.com/" rel="nofollow">https://action.github.com/</a>
I wish people would just roll with design changes. It's jarring? You'll get used to it. They'll improve it. Just roll with it. Let them experiment with their UI. These are pros. They brought you Bootstrap. And GitHub until now. Plus it's really not that meaningful. The UI is just a means to an end. You'll get used to it. It's what humans do best.