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Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by wz1000 »

downtide wrote: post #29

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…

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

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/firefox#Unreadable_inpu...

You can customise the colors according to your preference.

I also like the FT Deep Dark theme for firefox.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by Nickoladze »

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…

That's why I use Slack's IRC gateway. Just use your favorite IRC client.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by droelf »

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…

Check this afternoon project: https://github.com/wolfv/GtkOnline

That could be a future GTK browser :) dynamically downloads a glade ui file and python + CSS scripts to bring the web to GTK.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by seanwilson »

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…

It's just too impractical get every developer who also support multiple platforms to all agree to use exactly the same look and feel. There's similarities to getting everyone to use the same programming language.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by Gravityloss »

I often use reverse colors on OSX. ctrl-alt-cmd-8. Since most pages have white backgrounds, this results in black backgrounds.

It's also very nice that Flux is applied after this so I don't get a dark blue screen.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by noir_lord »

seanwilson wrote: post #34
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…

It's just too impractical get every developer who also support multiple platforms to all agree to use exactly the same look and feel. There's similarities to getting everyone to use the same programming language.

Nor would I want it anyway, I think the cognitive overhead of dealing with multiple different interfaces is offset against the fact that people can create new interfaces and solutions, imo that is better than a "one size fits none" approach.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by tyre »

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…

If we had millions of venture dollars, I might agree with you. When you're a small team with a small budget, those costs add up. We absolutely spend money on the things that matter, but as CEO I also have to worry about minimizing the costs that don't.

Re: Show HN: Slack Night Mode

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Post by OJFord »

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…

A small amount of work that will save $90pm is "optimis[ing] your business"!
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