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It's just annoying to me. It looks like the website is broken. I'll be trying to add it to uBlock or something. If it had text then maybe I'd keep it. As it stands it's not actually communicating anything meaningful. Poor UX.

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> As it stands it's not actually communicating anything meaningful.

A ribbon [1] or armband [2] is a really common and subtle way of symbolising mourning, I'm quite surprised people aren't more aware of this practise.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_ribbon

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_armband

I meant no disrespect to the sentiment. I don't think a black border at the top of a webpage is clear enough communication. Perhaps if there were some additional graphic indication of what it is? As it stands it's a black bar that makes the page look broken. If someone had a ribbon or band on their person or an image of one I would likely have grasped the significance after a moment's thought.

> As it stands it's not actually communicating anything meaningful

It's a nice gesture to people who likely had some impact on lots of our lives

For sure. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have some form of communication toward that end, either. What I mean is that the black border appears as if there is something wrong with the webpage. That is not clear. I am not saying that the idea of what it is trying to communicate is bad or wrong in any way. I meant that it is unclear as presently implemented.

I also tried uBlocking it, but I ended up removing the whole webpage so I left it alone

Agree. Tried to uBlock it too.

I think a HTML comment explaining why would have stopped me.

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