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Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by hoorayimhelping »

_bxg1 wrote: post #63
falcolas wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to say - if your monitor is blinding you, you have it set to too high a brightness. You're doing yourself a disservice by not turning it down. It should only throw out as much light as a piece of pristine printer paper in the same orientation. In the middle of the day my monitor tops out at about 30 of 100, and in the evenings I will occasionally turn it down to about 5 or 10. Many modern monitors will offer a…

I like having my display as bright as possible without it being uncomfortable; it helps with readability. On my laptop and phone I'll shift the brightness throughout the day to meet this heuristic, but alas, Windows does not make this trivial with an external monitor. Usually you have to fiddle with the monitor's physical buttons and navigate down into a menu. So I just don't bother.

That's fine, enjoy your preferences all you want.

Just realize when you use them as a justification for changing defaults which work fine for most everyone else, you're going to annoy people. Especially when your preferences tend to fly in the face of common sense.

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by anigbrowl »

oftenwrong wrote: post #172

One of the worst mistakes of the web was putting styling in the hands of webmasters rather than users. This thread is proof that even power users have lost the ability to control their own web experience.

And how. How I wish there were a browser that were designed around the principle of returning control to the user.

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by [deleted] »

twhb wrote: post #145
dang wrote: post #32

Ok, you guys, this isn't the first time we've heard this request ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ). I'm willing to do it (edit: not to change the default! just to add the option). It's just that any CSS issue that goes more than a quarter-inch deep is outside both my expertise and my interest. We can add CSS to https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css for prefers-color-scheme: dark , bu…

Are you ok with using CSS variables? Without them or some preprocessor, a dark theme would mean a lot of repeated selectors. https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables

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Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by anigbrowl »

dhosek wrote: post #190
DoreenMichele wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people use it because they have migraines and bright lights trigger their headaches. Some people use it for "stealth" reasons when they want to be online without giving off a lot of light for some reason. Some people are photophobic -- aka light sensitive -- and just favor darker websites generally. There's myriad reasons to want to use dark mode. It's not any one thing.

None of this applied to the people I've worked with who preferred it in IntelliJ. I'm willing to mark it up to personal preferences that I'll just never understand, alongside why great directors keep casting Leonardo DiCaprio.

I just like dark colors, it's less eyestrain over the day. And yes, I do like to pretend I'm on a submarine.

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by bdr »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #160
dang wrote: post #32

Ok, you guys, this isn't the first time we've heard this request ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ). I'm willing to do it (edit: not to change the default! just to add the option). It's just that any CSS issue that goes more than a quarter-inch deep is outside both my expertise and my interest. We can add CSS to https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css for prefers-color-scheme: dark , bu…

Alligator energy. I hadn’t heard this term before, and just read that an alligator can store up to 60% of the energy it gets from food as fat, mostly stored in the tail. A large adult in average condition could survive two years or more without food! https://books.google.com/books/about/Alligators.html?id=0UDL...

This ability might have helped them survive the KT extinction, when food was scarce.

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by diebeforei485 »

dang wrote: post #32

Ok, you guys, this isn't the first time we've heard this request ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ). I'm willing to do it (edit: not to change the default! just to add the option). It's just that any CSS issue that goes more than a quarter-inch deep is outside both my expertise and my interest. We can add CSS to https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css for prefers-color-scheme: dark , bu…

Please make sure the background color is actually black or dark grey, and not some shade of blue.

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Post by blueberry_47 »

dhosek wrote: post #190
DoreenMichele wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people use it because they have migraines and bright lights trigger their headaches. Some people use it for "stealth" reasons when they want to be online without giving off a lot of light for some reason. Some people are photophobic -- aka light sensitive -- and just favor darker websites generally. There's myriad reasons to want to use dark mode. It's not any one thing.

None of this applied to the people I've worked with who preferred it in IntelliJ. I'm willing to mark it up to personal preferences that I'll just never understand, alongside why great directors keep casting Leonardo DiCaprio.

Leo's awesome. Wolf of Wall Street? The Aviator?
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