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Re: Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode)

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Post by 3vidence »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #17
3vidence wrote: post #3

Before anyone comments chrome extensions. These don't work on chrome mobile or safari mobile which make up a sizeable number of users. Please, can we just have native dark mode? I made a pretty mediocre HN client just for this feature https://github.com/rsimmons1/FlutterHnReader I don't feel like working on it anymore, let's just have dark mode. Edit: apologies spoke out of my domain on safari iOS, it supports extens…

Firefox has extensions on Android. I appreciate that switching your browser is potentially a whole thing, but the option is there.

Went to Firefox on mobile for a while, just found the overall experience slower and less performant.

I know thats kind of a personal thing based on which websites are used but it was still my experience.

Re: Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode)

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Post by gabrielsroka »

3vidence wrote: post #3

Before anyone comments chrome extensions. These don't work on chrome mobile or safari mobile which make up a sizeable number of users. Please, can we just have native dark mode? I made a pretty mediocre HN client just for this feature https://github.com/rsimmons1/FlutterHnReader I don't feel like working on it anymore, let's just have dark mode. Edit: apologies spoke out of my domain on safari iOS, it supports extens…

Chrome on Android supports this flag. It works pretty well.

chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark

Also this one

chrome://flags/#darken-websites-checkbox-in-themes-setting

The UI might even support it.

Also this has been asked many times over many years. I just don't think it's going to happen

Re: Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode)

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Post by tapete »

3vidence wrote: post #3

Before anyone comments chrome extensions. These don't work on chrome mobile or safari mobile which make up a sizeable number of users. Please, can we just have native dark mode? I made a pretty mediocre HN client just for this feature https://github.com/rsimmons1/FlutterHnReader I don't feel like working on it anymore, let's just have dark mode. Edit: apologies spoke out of my domain on safari iOS, it supports extens…

Just use a proper browser that lets you add custom stylesheets, it literally takes 5min in CSS to invert the colors.

Re: Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode)

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Post by runjake »

nojvek wrote: post #22

I would love this. Apple is notoriously bad at supporting dark mode extensions on their mobile browser.

> Apple is notoriously bad at supporting dark mode extensions on their mobile browser.

How so? There are several Safari extensions (Noir, Dark Reader, etc) for this that are compatible with Safari on Mobile.

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