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Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by borski »

nodesocket wrote: post #17
tyre wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This! Their business pricing, which includes SSL, starts at $399 per month. Or you can self-host with something like http://staytus.co/ Yes you have to set up multi-AZ deployment, but that's super simple on AWS. Add in their new free SSL certs and voila! Even as a small startup, that's easily worth the time to save nearly $5k per year.

This is exactly the developer behavior that can cause a good startup to fail. Stop trying to optimize every penny! Optimize what matters. Your business. Sure, you can spin up two, three, four instances in AWS across multiple availability zones. Sure, you can install Ubuntu and manage servers. Sure, you can setup an ELB, or maybe you go the extra yard and configure NGINX. Sure you can deploy an open source rails or no…

This is very dependent. Spinning up your own status page takes incredibly little time, rather than paying $99/mo.

On the other hand, spending more elsewhere, say, to keep good books or to acquire customers, makes perfect sense.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by wallacoloo »

What ever happened to consistent, cross-application look-and-feel? I don't want each application defining its own style which clashes with every other application. We already have things like Qt and GTK themes for the desktop, but the web is just a mess in that regard. I really hope to see some eventual solution.

Mozilla's "Reader View" is a fantastic step towards establishing a consistent (and user-configurable) look-and-feel across the web. But its domain is still very narrow and wouldn't apply to Slack, unfortunately. Yet it's the only product I know of that's even working towards this kind of goal.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by madeofpalk »

wallacoloo wrote: post #22

What ever happened to consistent, cross-application look-and-feel? I don't want each application defining its own style which clashes with every other application. We already have things like Qt and GTK themes for the desktop, but the web is just a mess in that regard. I really hope to see some eventual solution. Mozilla's "Reader View" is a fantastic step towards establishing a consistent (and user-configurable) loo…

Mozilla's 'Reader View' isn't consistent with the OS X look-and-feel on my Mac, but that's OK.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by jtokoph »

will_hughes wrote: post #3

The domain 'blog.lacour.me' doesn't resolve for me: Your name servers seem to be ns[1-5].he.net, and ns1.he.net doesn't know what blog.lacour.me is: > blog.lacour.me Server: ns1.he.net Address: 216.218.130.2 *** No address (A) records available for blog.lacour.me

Some of comcast's DNS resolvers must be confused. I get different results each time I make a query:

    $ dig @75.75.75.75  blog.lacour.me
    QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
    {{ no answer }}


    $ dig @75.75.75.75  blog.lacour.me
    QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
    blog.lacour.me.		75275	IN	CNAME	silvrback.herokuapp.com.
    silvrback.herokuapp.com. 156	IN	CNAME	us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com.
    us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com. 30 IN	A	23.23.208.103

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by patates »

tjmehta wrote: post #12

It is a Stylish theme for Slack in the browser. Here is a link to the Github project: https://github.com/laCour/slack-night-mode I wish the Slack App had a night theme..

In the article there is a solution for the desktop app too, only not for the Mac.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by wallacoloo »

madeofpalk wrote: post #23
wallacoloo wrote: post #22

What ever happened to consistent, cross-application look-and-feel? I don't want each application defining its own style which clashes with every other application. We already have things like Qt and GTK themes for the desktop, but the web is just a mess in that regard. I really hope to see some eventual solution. Mozilla's "Reader View" is a fantastic step towards establishing a consistent (and user-configurable) loo…

Mozilla's 'Reader View' isn't consistent with the OS X look-and-feel on my Mac, but that's OK.

Yeah, it's not consistent with the system's look-and-feel, unfortunately. But it is at least consistent across websites, which is a start. And technically, it shouldn't be hard to add support for system themes - Firefox can already derive default background/foreground/text/link colors from GTK & apply those to webpages; it's just currently a useless feature since most all websites override the defaults completely, or worse, only partially.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by jbrooksuk »

tyre wrote: post #16
rickycook wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

status page pricing is kind of ridiculous for starters. they do very little and expect $99/mo for a basic plan

This! Their business pricing, which includes SSL, starts at $399 per month. Or you can self-host with something like http://staytus.co/ Yes you have to set up multi-AZ deployment, but that's super simple on AWS. Add in their new free SSL certs and voila! Even as a small startup, that's easily worth the time to save nearly $5k per year.

For a more feature complete alternate, check out https://cachethq.io

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by downtide »

I'm on Linux with Xfce. I have tried and failed to get a dark theme working. It's difficult to match across toolkits.

I've had web browsers that default to white screen flashing on new tabs, and most don't respect your native theme.

My current workaround]in Firefox is to disable background images, set default foreground/background and link colours. Set a default font, and ensure font sizes don't fall below a certain size.

Some text inputs have a dark background and a dark font. Which makes things very difficult. I'm typing blind.

Another issue is that many designs use background images where you would expect foreground placement. For example Instagram doesn't work for me. Slack is usable, but some image previews are lost. Other sites that rely upon imagery for navigation can pose a problem. The compose window in Gmail, I have to use mystery meat navigation to work out each button's function. Which is quite poor.

I've tried setting my own stylesheets in browsers where you can, but it's easy to break layouts.

Obviously accessibility is still overlooked by many site designers.

I also don't like being stuck in one browser, so a better cross application solution is preferable, rather than site specific fixes.

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