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Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by kitsunesoba »

skymt wrote: post #115
apk-d wrote: post #89

Does anyone actually prefer reading text on a bright background? If so, what are your reasons? For me, the choice is obvious to the point that I'm often annoyed at the lengths I need to go to in order to browse the web comfortably. I feel like we should have moved to the sane default of dark-themed UI ages ago.

Honest question: how well-lit is the area you use your computer in, and have you tried turning down your monitor's brightness? I'm as baffled by the popularity of dark themes as you are with light themes, but I'm sitting in a fairly bright room with natural light and a monitor at 35% brightness. In these conditions dark-on-light and light-on-dark text are equally pleasant to read, and I opt for light themes when give…

It really bugs me for my monitor to not be at or near max brightness because of how terrible the colors look at low brightness, even on high end IPS panels. This isn’t an issue on my OLED phone, which has great colors even at the lowest brightness, but nobody makes 27” OLED monitors and if they did they’d be prohibitively expensive.

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by climb_stealth »

apk-d wrote: post #89

Does anyone actually prefer reading text on a bright background? If so, what are your reasons? For me, the choice is obvious to the point that I'm often annoyed at the lengths I need to go to in order to browse the web comfortably. I feel like we should have moved to the sane default of dark-themed UI ages ago.

I find it jarring to switch from a dark window to something bright, for example from vim to the web browser.

You basically said it yourself. It takes a lot of effort to make everything dark. Instead I make bright comfortable. Around 5% brightness on the external monitor and f.lux active all the time with a pleasant middle setting.

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by cowb0yl0gic »

godelmachine wrote: post #58
eternalny1 wrote: post #7

Dark Background and Light Text is great also ... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-backgrou... Fully customizable so you can don't have to go full black/white, you can copy and dark theme you like and use that as a default.

Can we also choose which web pages not to add dark theme?

Yes, it has per-site configuration from the toolbar; also, a couple of different modes to choose from if one doesn't work quite so well for a given site (invert, CSS, simple CSS). I'm pretty happy with this extension (I switched away from Dark Reader). Also, open source: https://github.com/m-khvoinitsky/dark-background-light-text-...

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by alexanderby »

miles wrote: post #127
alexanderby wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I'm not sure that publishing a paid app source code would be a good idea. There is a chance that somebody will publish the same app under different name. Somebody has already published a crack for it. And another Safari app already reuses some code from Dark Reader for Chrome. There was a long discussion regarding this review https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9y0s2a/dark_reader_d... You know, some Apple…

> Sorry, I'm not sure that publishing a paid app source code would be a good idea. In an earlier comment on reddit, you wrote[0]: "Safari version is not open source yet, but it did pass a manual review too." which implies it would be open sourced at some point. Have you changed your mind? > There was a long discussion regarding this review... Thanks for the heads up. I'm sorry they didn't include the full context, in…

When the amount of donations will be enough, then I would be able to publish the source code of the Safari app. But currently it is the major source of revenue and it lets me continuing the development and spend as much time as possible.

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by tadfisher »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #131
skymt wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: how well-lit is the area you use your computer in, and have you tried turning down your monitor's brightness? I'm as baffled by the popularity of dark themes as you are with light themes, but I'm sitting in a fairly bright room with natural light and a monitor at 35% brightness. In these conditions dark-on-light and light-on-dark text are equally pleasant to read, and I opt for light themes when give…

It really bugs me for my monitor to not be at or near max brightness because of how terrible the colors look at low brightness, even on high end IPS panels. This isn’t an issue on my OLED phone, which has great colors even at the lowest brightness, but nobody makes 27” OLED monitors and if they did they’d be prohibitively expensive.

Are you speaking subjectively, or are you saying reducing the backlight level is affecting the color reproduction of your IPS display?

I've found that while I may need to recalibrate with my Spyder, color accuracy is essentially unchanged at 50% brightness.

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

#136

Post by o9000 »

I’ve also written a similar addon, although much simpler, using static css filters:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode-night-re...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-mode-nig...

https://gitlab.com/o9000/darken

It has 4 presets that can be configured per domain.

I’ve added by hand rules to fix inverted images on some popular websites. YouTube is a pain to maintain, they keep changing their css every couple of months.

The code is simple enough to review even for someone not familiar with JS. And you can download it and load it as a local extension if you’re worried about the permission.

I’ve only tested it under Linux, I don’t use anything else. But some users tell me it works under Windows too.

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by deepspace »

apk-d wrote: post #89

Does anyone actually prefer reading text on a bright background? If so, what are your reasons? For me, the choice is obvious to the point that I'm often annoyed at the lengths I need to go to in order to browse the web comfortably. I feel like we should have moved to the sane default of dark-themed UI ages ago.

Absolutely. I am old enough to remember working on monochrome monitors with green or yellow text on a black background, and the associated eyestrain was torture for me. It was a glorious day when I installed my first color monitor and was finally able to read black text on a white background.

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

#138

Post by o9000 »

o9000 wrote: post #136

I’ve also written a similar addon, although much simpler, using static css filters: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode-night-re... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-mode-nig... https://gitlab.com/o9000/darken It has 4 presets that can be configured per domain. I’ve added by hand rules to fix inverted images on some popular websites. YouTube is a pain to maintain, they keep changing…

Here are the filters: https://gitlab.com/o9000/darken/blob/master/chrome/style.css

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by falcrist »

apk-d wrote: post #89

Does anyone actually prefer reading text on a bright background? If so, what are your reasons? For me, the choice is obvious to the point that I'm often annoyed at the lengths I need to go to in order to browse the web comfortably. I feel like we should have moved to the sane default of dark-themed UI ages ago.

I prefer dark themes, but they become more difficult to read than light themes when there's glare. If there's a lot of ambient light, dark themes could even cause eyestrain.

You can turn up monitor brightness to compensate, but you could have turned down monitor brightness to compensate for the light theme anyway.

Also, if you're using a projector, dark modes tend to be noticably more difficult to read. I'm not sure why that is.

Honestly, though, I stick with Microsoft's dark mode 95% of the time.

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by fosco »

apk-d wrote: post #89

Does anyone actually prefer reading text on a bright background? If so, what are your reasons? For me, the choice is obvious to the point that I'm often annoyed at the lengths I need to go to in order to browse the web comfortably. I feel like we should have moved to the sane default of dark-themed UI ages ago.

dark mode makes me sleepy, having bright monitors and room helps me stay alert, so does standing which gets tiresome from doing it all day.

I work from home so there are less distractions and it helps me stay focused for this... but all in all I think this is 100% pure preference, I cannot work in dark lit rooms, when I am working at 3am (this is rare but happens) I have my hospital grade lighting (my wifes words) blasting at on :-)

in other news, I think its relevant for me to say my HN topcolor is ffffff :-)

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