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Hyvluence

Your wiki, but it is 2009 again

A Firefox extension that re-skins Confluence Cloud as Hyves — pale blue boxes, amber accents, square corners, Verdana, and Krabbels where the comments used to be.

Nothing here is a pastiche from memory. Every colour, every gradient strip and every Dutch word is measured or quoted from archived Hyves pages: the original stylesheet, the original sliced GIFs, and a capture of hyves.nl from February 2005 — early enough that the site still served Dutch rather than the later English edition.

Screenshot

A Confluence page themed as Hyves: pale blue side navigation with arrow bullets, a light blue gradient top bar, square-cornered boxes, and Dutch labels reading Krabbels, WieWatWaar, Leden and Agenda.

Confluence with the theme on. Note the vocabulary: Spaces became Hyves, People became Vrienden, Comments became Krabbels.

Download

Download .xpi v0.1.0 · 42 KB · sha256 7d84fda9c0b333bbc03870e360f5eb65766ace9a629adedc136261ee9cbef0fb

This build is unsigned. Firefox will not install it permanently — load it as a temporary add-on instead, which lasts until you quit the browser. Instructions below.

Installeren

  1. Download the .xpi above.
  2. Open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox in Firefox.
  3. Click Load Temporary Add-on… and pick the file.
  4. Open any page under *.atlassian.net/wiki/*. The theme applies immediately.
  5. Use the toolbar button to toggle the theme, the Hyves chrome, and the Dutch vocabulary independently.

The add-on disappears when Firefox restarts. That is Firefox's rule for unsigned extensions, not a limitation of the theme.

Echt of niet

Hyves terminology is easy to misremember, so each term the extension uses records where it came from. Nothing ships on recall alone.

Krabbels, Vrienden, WieWatWaar
From archived Hyves profile pages, which label their own sections in JavaScript: attach('div.reactions', 'Krabbels').
Zoeken, Berichten, Leden, Locatie, klap in / klap uit
Verbatim from the February 2005 capture of hyves.nl, back when the whole interface was Dutch.
Respect, Profiel, Almanak, Advertenties
From real archived URL paths — /respect/button, /profielbeheer/, /almanak/.
The palette
Counted out of the original stylesheet: #cfdfef 130 uses, #ffcc66 59, #6699cc 58, #003399 35. Hyves was blue in this era. The orange came later.
Zero border-radius, zero CSS gradients
Both counts are literally zero in the original stylesheet. Corners were sliced GIFs and gradients were repeating background strips — the same slices this page and the extension use.