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>In fact, this very site that you’re on right now automagically flips to dark mode if you’re that way inclined. It does not come up that way for me. I'm on OSX with appearance set to dark. (Firefox 77.0.1) Is there something I'm doing wrong? YC is a light theme too.
Really frustrating.
Personally I appreciate the ability to switch color modes. I've found that when reading articles or text I like dark text on a white background. So news apps are kept in light mode. For development i like that darker themes allows me to see the syntax highlighting better. Plus my partner loves the "rainbow text" and knows when I'm working "matrix time" :)
I love this. My wife calls it "the black screens"
Let's say you users draw diagrams with SVG and the background defaults to white. You make a dark mode. You can't easily fix the SVG. You can't just set the background to black. The SVG's dark colors won't be readable. You can't just set the dark colors to light colors as you have no idea what the diagram is trying to show. The best you can do is set all images to have a white background so any image with transparency is shown in the default but then you end up with large white rectangles on an otherwise dark page which is jarring.
I actually mostly like dark mode. My editors have used dark colors since the 80s. My terminal has been set to a dark color for as long as I can remember on any OS. But, maybe because of bad color choices, I can't focus on stackoverflow's dark mode at all. Maybe it's the blue on dark gray they picked. I don't know what it is but I can't read it.
No one seems to be mentioning the lighting of the room you're in, inside/outside, or the time of day. Ambient light is one of the primary factors that make light or dark mode better at a particular moment. See redshift to make light mode more tolerable at night.
I really wish auto dark mode (based on sunset time I believe) worked better on OSX. On my iPhone it works great and automatically switches to dark mode once the sun sets. On my MacBook it hardly ever remembers to switch across and I'm left with it constantly on light. Really frustrating.
I really wish auto dark mode (based on sunset time I believe) worked better on OSX. On my iPhone it works great and automatically switches to dark mode once the sun sets. On my MacBook it hardly ever remembers to switch across and I'm left with it constantly on light. Really frustrating.
Are you on latest Mac OS? You can set it to switch at sunset.
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Are you on latest Mac OS? You can set it to switch at sunset.
The implementation that ships with the system is somewhat poor.
If I set my city manually then it works.