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Ask HN: What's your opinion on automatic light/dark mode switching on websites?

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Re: Ask HN: What's your opinion on automatic light/dark mode switching on websites?

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Post by nasso_dev »

I strongly believe it should be the default everywhere.

IMO, you can even skip having a theme switch—that's how native stock OS apps behave (calculator, notepad, settings, etc.).

For websites, I think that should be enough. For web apps however, you might want more control over the theme somewhere in the settings page, as people are more likely to spend a lot of time in your app and may want to customize it a bit more.

Re: Ask HN: What's your opinion on automatic light/dark mode switching on websites?

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Post by ssivark »

Sometimes when I'm browsing at night, and have the OS/browser set to dark mode, it's really annoying when one website suddenly defaults to light mode instead of respecting my settings. The only thing more annoying is to have to do this repeatedly for multiple websites. In fact, when I'm working/browsing at night (without the lights) I enable an extension which will forcibly render all pages in dark mode, using some pre-specified heuristics to convert colors.

Re: Ask HN: What's your opinion on automatic light/dark mode switching on websites?

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Post by [deleted] »

me4502 wrote: post #7

IMO if a website supports both light & dark themes, it should _by default_ switch automatically. If the site wants to allow overriding that, that's fine, but I hate having to constantly go into the settings of sites to switch it to "Use System Default" instead of "Light theme". Especially when sites don't store the data very long, or it's a site like AzureDevOps/Jira/etc which is deployed across multiple instances an…

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