RIriquito·Feb 26, 2025
Wild how its github page (1 commit, 1 hour ago) has already 885 forks and 11.2K stars to mislead people
https://github.com/Fanny-Theme/fanny-theme-support
In Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplacevira-soft
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Vira Theme is the official successor of the popular Material Theme. This premium version is actively maintained, includes hand-curated icons and more features
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11.3KGitHub stars
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Vira Theme is the official successor of the popular Material Theme. This premium version is actively maintained, includes hand-curated icons and more features
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HN mentions by year15 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2015-06-16 14:01:48 UTC to 2025-02-26 16:41:25 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
What Hacker News says
15 sourcesIt's a new publisher https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/publishers/fanny
If you dig into the code on GitHub [1] , you can see it's the same author as the Material Theme. But I'm not sure how the marketplace folks are supposed to track that.
[1] https://github.com/fanny-theme/fanny-theme-support
In Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplaceHe rename it: https://github.com/Fanny-Theme/fanny-theme-support
In Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplaceI think the guy simply renamed and moved everything here? https://github.com/Fanny-Theme/fanny-theme-support
In Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplaceLooks like he's responded to it here. Delusional maniac? (Also, don't download and install that file he links)
https://github.com/material-theme/vsc-material-theme/discuss...
In Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplacehttps://github.com/material-theme/vsc-material-theme/commit/... is the initial MIT licensed commit
In Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplaceThe initial commit was in 2015 and was MIT licensed for a couple of years before it was changed to Apache licensed. It's unclear if any of the other contributors gave permission for this change to happen.
https://github.com/material-theme/vsc-material-theme/commit/...
In Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplaceLooks like it was, or at least the initial commit was. This was back in 2017.
https://github.com/material-theme/vsc-material-theme/commits...
I'm not sure why the initial commit already says "official", but that's almost a decade ago.
In Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplaceThe old commit history can still be accessed here:
https://github.com/material-theme/vsc-material-theme/activit...
In Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplaceMaterial Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace
479 points · Open discussionVscode Material Design Theme – Improve New Schemes Color Readability
1 points · Open discussionHere are some tools I started using over the last year (give or take) that I am thankful for.
===== Bug reporting made so easy, even a client can do it.
* Marker - Annotated Screenshots Sent to any Bug Tracking Tool || https://getmarker.io/
===== Sync Project Management tools so I can just tell clients to use their instance of Asana; dramatically cuts down on my waste-of-time phone calls for status updates.
* Unito - Connect your project management tools and become your team's collaboration hero || https://unito.io/
===== Kanban board for GitHub.
* ZenHub - Agile GitHub Project Management Software || https://www.zenhub.com/
===== Ad-blocking Hosts File
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...
===== Various page speed checking tools so now I have very pretty and clean ways to demonstrate why we need time for refact
Read the rest
oring and optimization (not all of these are new).
* Website speed test || https://tools.pingdom.com/
* Observatory by Mozilla || https://observatory.mozilla.org/
* PageSpeed Insights || https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
===== Quickly Generate Fake Text for Mockups
* LittleIpsum on the Mac App Store || https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/littleipsum/id405772121?mt=1...
===== GitHub Label Sync Tool
* github-issues-label-sync || https://www.npmjs.com/package/github-issues-label-sync
===== Keep your fonts in sync; get all your Google Fonts, and others in one swoop
* SkyFonts || http://skyfonts.com/
===== Keep your Mac up-to-date (I'm late to the party on this one, but yeah... anyone not using this is really missing out)
* Homebrew — The missing package manager for macOS || http://brew.sh/
===== Quick site scanning tools I'm on the go and don't have time to spin up Screaming Frog.
* Sentry Realtime Website Crawler for Webmasters and SEOs || https://sentryapp.com/
* Bulk URL HTTP Status Code, Header & Redirect Checker — httpstatus.io || https://httpstatus.io/
* namecheckr.com - Social and Domain Name Availability Search For Brand Professionals || https://www.namecheckr.com/
===== Material Theme for Sublime Text
* equinusocio/material-theme: Material Theme, the most epic theme for Sublime Text 3 by Mattia Astorino || https://github.com/equinusocio/material-theme
===== Dirt Simple Backups Done Right
* The Best Unlimited Online Backup and Cloud Storage Services || https://www.backblaze.com/
===== If anyone on here helped with any of those tools... I'm thankful for you! (=
Going to go eat Turkey now.
Roboto + Material from here" https://github.com/equinusocio/material-theme
In Ask HN: What is your editor/terminal font and color scheme?Material Theme, the most epic theme for Sublime Text 3
1 points · Open discussionMaterial Design Theme for Sublime Text 3
1 points · Open discussion