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Dark mode is essential, not a design preference

12 points by SeeMePlease 9mo ago

Tomte 9mo ago
Dark mode is fashion. If it were about headaches from bright screens, you would turn down the brightness.
- _jzlw 9mo ago
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  - kbon 9mo ago
    yes, and pushing the colour inversion (or 'turning down the brightness') breaks all of the default settings meaning the user's keyboard flips from dark to bright. This results on people with low vision who rely on darkmode having to toggle colour inversion on and off constantly - a 5 min task becomes 50mins!
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  - remslave 9mo ago
    Bright text on dark backgrounds is unreadable garbage to me, like a kaleidoscope of strokes and shapes. I think it is because of astygmatism, not sure. When software doesn't provide a light theme, I can't use it at all. Thankfully websites are easy to fix with browser addons... ffmpeg documentation in particular looks so bad by default in my opinion. You should always give the user a choice because it's usually very trivial to make a theme and saves everone trouble down the line. Finding the option to switch can still be a pain sometimes which is silly.
  - tomhow 9mo ago
    > Oh, fuck off. I am sorry but you are exactly the reason this article was written. Ignorant people like you I understand you find that comment upsetting, but it's never acceptable to post personal abuse like this on HN, no matter who or what you're replying to. The guidelines make it clear what style of participation is expected and what is off limits. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.
- kkmcmc 9mo ago
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- access25 9mo ago
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genericuser256 9mo ago
And yet the site is in light mode?
- SeeMePlease 9mo ago
  It's available in both light and dark modes :-)
  - genericuser256 9mo ago
    Not by default at least on FF
general1465 9mo ago
Dark mode is a placebo. If your eyes hurt from the screen, then increase ambient light in the room so the amount of light around you is balanced and your irises will stay in same settings - main source of your pain. If light would be a big problem, you would be going blind during sunny summer day.
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_jzlw 9mo ago
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12 points by SeeMePlease 9mo ago

Tomte 9mo ago

Dark mode is fashion. If it were about headaches from bright screens, you would turn down the brightness.

_jzlw 9mo ago
[flagged]
- kbon 9mo ago
  yes, and pushing the colour inversion (or 'turning down the brightness') breaks all of the default settings meaning the user's keyboard flips from dark to bright. This results on people with low vision who rely on darkmode having to toggle colour inversion on and off constantly - a 5 min task becomes 50mins!
  - deleted 9mo ago
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- remslave 9mo ago
  Bright text on dark backgrounds is unreadable garbage to me, like a kaleidoscope of strokes and shapes. I think it is because of astygmatism, not sure. When software doesn't provide a light theme, I can't use it at all. Thankfully websites are easy to fix with browser addons... ffmpeg documentation in particular looks so bad by default in my opinion. You should always give the user a choice because it's usually very trivial to make a theme and saves everone trouble down the line. Finding the option to switch can still be a pain sometimes which is silly.
- tomhow 9mo ago
  > Oh, fuck off. I am sorry but you are exactly the reason this article was written. Ignorant people like you I understand you find that comment upsetting, but it's never acceptable to post personal abuse like this on HN, no matter who or what you're replying to. The guidelines make it clear what style of participation is expected and what is off limits. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.
kkmcmc 9mo ago
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access25 9mo ago
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genericuser256 9mo ago

And yet the site is in light mode?

SeeMePlease 9mo ago
It's available in both light and dark modes :-)
- genericuser256 9mo ago
  Not by default at least on FF

general1465 9mo ago

Dark mode is a placebo. If your eyes hurt from the screen, then increase ambient light in the room so the amount of light around you is balanced and your irises will stay in same settings - main source of your pain. If light would be a big problem, you would be going blind during sunny summer day.

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_jzlw 9mo ago

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