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Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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chromium for android is open source ... that's where the solution should be and if you're really passionate about it, go do it. It shouldn't be the responsibility of every individual website to independently implement the feature. Could you imagine if we entrusted every website to independently implement scroll bars and zoom? What a mess that'd be.

While I partially agree with you (that's why I upvoted) in that it's a waste of everyone's time having every website developer worry about dark mode I still think scrollbars and zoom are fundamentally different from a dark mode in that the latter cannot be detached from aesthetics. The color pallete of a page is important, and maintaining a consistent look and feel across normal and dark mode can only be done reliabl…

but dark mode is an accessibility feature and used to be called high-contrast mode. This is a solved problem and has been for at least 30 years.

In fact it's already in chrome on android, no work needs to be done (other than enabling it). Here's an image gallery guide I made: https://imgur.com/a/njNTO6T

This is the right approach, it should be solved at the browser level. In fact, it already is.

The only responsibility of web developers should be to not go out of their way and do silly things that break this.

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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Well, if we want HN to follow best modern web practices, I recommend rewriting the whole thing with React/Node.js using TypeScript. Then, we can get a proper CSS framework in place like Material that will really allow us to get everything looking really good. I can design a cool looking loading screen that says "HN" while the JS is loading in the background.

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I think this is now my highest voted comment on HN.

I don't know how to feel about that.

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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I agree with many of the other similar comments, having dark-mode supported by default would be good BUT we don't need it. It's already well supported by several styling extensions. I use 'Stylish' on Firefox and it works well not just on HN but quite a few sites. https://userstyles.org/styles/22794/a-dark-hacker-news Here's what my HN looks like - https://imgur.com/a/UM5qXtD

I do need it, on an iPhone there is no way to apply userstyles :/.

However, if we want to keep HN clean, but help users with closed mobile browsers, how about we add an option to add own css url in HN profile?

This way I could even create my own dark theme and have it available on all of my devices.

Re: Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

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I would love it, on an iPhone there is no way to apply userstyles :/.

However, if we want to keep HN clean, but help users with closed mobile browsers, how about we add an option to add own css url in HN profile?

This way I could even create my own dark theme and have it available on all of my devices.

And then, over time, a really nice battle tested night theme can emerge from this experimentation.

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