Never understood the point of dark modes. Am I too old?
No, I never understood the point either. But then I learned to code on a ZX Spectrum where everything was light mode so maybe that’s it.
Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
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Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
#32I made a Stylus theme for https://news.ycombinator.com and https://hckrnews.com
https://i.imgur.com/b08pZev.png
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/ Stylus Button > Manage > Write New Style > Import
* https://gist.github.com/Zren/d025e06754bb2e0a7de0036fb2eee3f...
I personally disable all extensions except uBlockOrigin from auto-updating. If they break, then that prompts me to re-check if they're legit or if they've been bought out (like Stylish) before updating.
Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. It's been 3 years since they said they would do something and it only needs a couple of lines to the CSS.
eh to be fair it's a bit more than a couple of lines, but I agree, with a site like HN it shouldn't be too bad.
I could knock it out in a single day. The people running this site are simply dedicated to the Craiglist style of thought, which is antagonistic to change for "culture" reasons whilst purporting to be for "practical" reasons.
Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
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this is the guy who closes my pull requests and stackoverflow answers and reverts my wikipedia edits
Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
#35If you want, I have a dark-ish theme for HN that I've made with Stylus, it mimicks the Synthwave84 theme for VSCode
Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
#36Funny that I've been on this site for years yet I don't actually know if it's open source. Does anyone know whether it is and if it's open to pull requests? This sounds like it would be a fun project I could knock out in a weekend or so.
Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
#37Never understood the point of dark modes. Am I too old?
No, maybe it's your eyes that are okay with non-darkmode. I am not using darkmode by reducing by using nightmode all the time but darkmode is totally a fine way to spend time in front of the computer if that makes you comfortable.
Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
#38Brave has the built-in dark mode
Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
#39If you're using ublock origin, I have these filters which I copied from another HN comment once upon a time. news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(100%) hue-rotate(180deg)) news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: white) news.ycombinator.com##div.toptext:style(color: black) news.ycombinator.com###hnmain td[bgcolor="#000000"] edit: "rules" -> "filters"
i didn't know ublock can be used as a poor man's violent monkey :)
i can't read dark mode as well as light mode, but thanks for the advice!
Re: Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
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