I personally also keep the warm light display setting ON all the time: day or night.
Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
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Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#182Lunar plug https://lunar.fyi/?source=lowtechguys Unrelated to dark mode, but is a visual game changer. People should also take the time out to get appropriate light bulbs for their studies and work desks. I want to speak more on visual settings in web design and GUIs, but I’m eating some corn chips. In brief, I’m starting to understand that accessibility concerns don’t refer exclusively to people with certain conditi…
>get appropriate light bulbs for their studies and work desks. What are these?
They're things that you can't get your employer to install in your office.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#183Dark mode doesn't work for me, probably due to astigmatism. But working most of the day in front of the screen causes eye strain. So, I tried `redshift` and that helped. These days I keep it at 3000K all the time. And I found that reading on my big computer screen with redshift is less straining compared to Kindle.
So many people are complaining about astigmatism here. I have it too, and I use dark mode just fine.
Do your corrective lenses not correct for astigmatism?
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#184I will always use dark mode, I feel it’s the best for my eyes and comfort. Maybe I am wrong but I made my choice.
You're wrong. A scientific study has proven you wrong.
Similarly, a scientific study has proven that smoking is good for you and protects you from Covid....
(/s)
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#185It's interesting that this article surfaced shortly after the Ask HN question about maintaining eye health https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945390 This blog post and most replies are misinformation and misunderstanding, and people posting their own anecdotes as advice. If you aren't considering the macula, emmetropization, circadian rhythms, and corneal thinning, then please don't give advice to others on this…
Great! What is the empirical answer, then?
Most likely, there is none. This blog post is just some BS that takes some talking points from one crappy study somewhere. The anecdotes in reply are just that: anedcotes, though honestly, they're probably overall of much higher value than the blog post, since they account for all kinds of issues that the post does not (such as the people with floaters).
I'm pretty sure there's no scientific consensus on this issue at all.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#186Some people have photosensitivity, such as those with lighter colored irises.
HN needs to add dark mode. Until then, I've been using this theme with the Stylus addon. Way better!
https://userstyles.world/style/1898/hacker-news-dynamic-dark
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#187I like dark mode very much these days even during the daytime because I find staring at a bright white screen runs the risk of triggering a migraine. Dark mode screens don't do that. The contrast between pure white backgrounds and pure black text is too stark and causes greater eyestrain when it's directly transmitted light as opposed to reflected light. Displays in light mode that are reflective do not have this kin…
> If so, then why should your screen be pure white?
This is what it boils down to for most people. Using a less-than-pure white or a cream colour like HN makes for a much more pleasant read. At night it's often still too bright for me, but I'm happy to switch modes according to how I feel at the time.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#188Differences of dark and white for eyes are so minimal that debates on effects between a specific color of screen don't matter at all.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#189> When I was in the military, a key tactic of camouflage was to never, under any circumstances, expose yourself on a hilltop or similar, where your silhouette could be easily identified. A dark blob on a light background is far easier for the human eye to see, than the reverse.
There's a scenarion when this is incorrect: when the light foreground is the only source of light.
I use black backgrounds with white text for reading on OLED because the only light entering my eyes is the information I need. You can tell me all you want that it doesn't reduce eye strain, it does. I can tell because I can feel my eyes.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#190For me the Nord theme of greyish blue has been better than pure dark mode or blue coloured Solarized theme either.
Thankfully twitter has this as an option as well. But I'm all for companies having 4 presets & one all out custom themeing if customers prefer it- White, Off-white/paper, dark(OLED black) & Nord(blue-grey)