Ask HN: Usernames showing up orange occasionally?

11 points

15 years ago

This evening I've noticed that occasionally usernames the comments appear orange -- specifically wrapped in

  <font color=#be6400>...</font>.

Screenshot (see PStamatiou): http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/2719/hnscreenshot.png

I've never seen this before. It does seem that the users with orange names may be connected with YC companies, though it seems somewhat random even then. Is this a new feature, or related to [1] which seemed to later be killed in [2]?

EDIT: The username is no longer highlighted in the article comment I pointed out above, so this may somehow be time dependent.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#4feb09

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

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