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Post by pvaldes »

avmich wrote: post #6

> The glaring white background is absolutely horrendous. What is it that brings people to dark background teams? I'm genuinely interested. They were a necessity back when the quality of screens was worse, but today? Is it a fashion with many followers or is there some rationale behind it?

Better for the eyes and (probably) better for extending the life of the monitor also. Energy saver. Less heat and, when you scale it to millions of computers, more ecological.

Bad for selling computers. Everybody wants a million of colors dancing the macarena in their computers and is nice, for like five minutes. Ten hours and your pupils are on fire.

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Post by bananamerica »

cubedrone wrote: post #12
bananamerica wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On mobile? hi, downvoter... it was an honest question. Sorry? :(

I use a firefox mobile add-on called 'night mode - hacker news'

This[1] and other links tell me that there are no addons for Firefox on iOS. Sadly, that is what I use.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios

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Post by musicale »

ironmagma wrote: post #10
avmich wrote: post #6

> The glaring white background is absolutely horrendous. What is it that brings people to dark background teams? I'm genuinely interested. They were a necessity back when the quality of screens was worse, but today? Is it a fashion with many followers or is there some rationale behind it?

Many eye doctors will tell you that blue light is bad for your eyes. In my mind, the less blue light the better.

Exactly this - avoiding macular degeneration.

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Post by antoineMoPa »

pvaldes wrote: post #11
avmich wrote: post #6

> The glaring white background is absolutely horrendous. What is it that brings people to dark background teams? I'm genuinely interested. They were a necessity back when the quality of screens was worse, but today? Is it a fashion with many followers or is there some rationale behind it?

Better for the eyes and (probably) better for extending the life of the monitor also. Energy saver. Less heat and, when you scale it to millions of computers, more ecological. Bad for selling computers. Everybody wants a million of colors dancing the macarena in their computers and is nice, for like five minutes. Ten hours and your pupils are on fire.

It depends on the screen technology whether it saves energy or not.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-b...

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Post by muzani »

avmich wrote: post #6

> The glaring white background is absolutely horrendous. What is it that brings people to dark background teams? I'm genuinely interested. They were a necessity back when the quality of screens was worse, but today? Is it a fashion with many followers or is there some rationale behind it?

Many phones come with a blue light reducer. It looks terrible with a light theme.
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