Of all places, HN should be dark mode by default, without any of us using a plugin or specific browser. I don't want my eyes to burn when I'm browsing HN at night on my phone. Anyone?
Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
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#2Yes please.
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#3If you are using your phone, consider using an app to access HN. On Android, I use materialistic (available on f-Droid). It's a neat client!
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#4If you use Firefox you can use the addon Dark Reader, so you can get dark mode for every site if you want at night
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#5You could also just have your router mitm or redirect connections to hn and sed the result.
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#6Maybe spruce up the whole site too.
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#7Maybe spruce up the whole site too.
I think one of the appeals about this site is that it is simple and isn't another one of those Bootstrap websites.
Dark mode would be nice though.
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#8> HN should be dark mode by default
A less controversial solution would be to simply hook into the user's system-level light/dark setting: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
That said, I've wanted this feature desperately for a long time. Browsing HN on my desktop monitor in the evening is blinding and gives me a headache. I find myself resizing the window to be phone-sized just so my eyes are assaulted with less light.
If you need a hand with the CSS, I'd be happy to write it myself (speaking of which; is HN open-source?)
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#9If you use Firefox you can use the addon Dark Reader, so you can get dark mode for every site if you want at night
Most of those extensions work by just inverting the colors of the entire page. Pretty unideal, compared to an intelligently-written dark theme.
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#10There may be third party solutions to this. The management around here is very conservative about changing things and explicitly has policies to "Move slow and preserve things" (as opposed to "Move fast and break things"). So, as a guess, the answer to that is probably "No" or, at best, "Not any time soon."
But the management is very tolerant of and even warmly welcomes the fact that the membership includes a lot of programmers and we tend to get a lot of third party solutions.
Off the top of my head, I don't know of an HN reader thingy in dark mode, but asking if those exist is much more likely to get you an immediately available solution than asking management to alter the appearance of HN in some specific way.