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Personally, I think dark mode is unnecessary feature creep. But it's also because I never use it and hate it when it's the default and I have to go hunt for the hidden button to switch it off: I need lots of light, otherwise letters get blurry for me, so I'm just another biased human being =)
[1] - https://mirror.newsdump.org/hn-ublock-colors-other.txt
I see a lot of people in here saying no. Just don’t use it if you don’t want it. It’s really that simple. This is a very simple feature request for HN.
I checked my calendar. It didn't say anything about dark modes. What does the current year have to do with anything?
A lot of people use it on the regular and I have been lucky to have a lot of their feedback since I shared it here a few months ago.
I just added support for comments too! I'd love to know what folks think.
You are allowed to reduce your display brightness. I run my iPhone at the lowest possible setting at night (right now). Try it sometime. It might seem really dim at first but your eyes will adjust in a few minutes. I think dark mode can be deceptive. Blazing hot white text on a pitch black oled background is like visual caffeine to me. I would not want to be staring at this if I was adjacent to bedtime.
The display brightness doesn’t go dim enough
And: on iOS you can reduce the white point quite a bit which makes the display appear very dark indeed. You can even tie it to a shortcut which is quite handy
just go to https://hacked.stream if you need it, you'll still need to upvote via HN interface until proxy is implemented
Visiting this site on mobile is not great. A good portion of the screen is covered by a sticky header and there is no underline or feedback when a link is clicked. Additionally, it is missing the story position and with infinite scroll there is no way to differentiate whether you are looking at the 10th story or the one in the 100th position.
It's sad that everyone has to run around implementing hard-coded "dark themes" 30 years after computers users could routinely set up system-wide color schemes themselves.
The whole point here is for websites to respect those user configured system-wide color schemes. This is why prefers-color-scheme exists.
They also are constantly moving targets for any web designer who tries to keep up…