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Re: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode

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Post by pks016 » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 6:02 PM UTC

kleer001 wrote: post #21

Personally I can't stand dark mode. It literally hurts my eyes. Strain after a few moments and interlacing ghost lines that linger in my vision for a minute. Does anyone else have this? Is it brain cancer?! edit: Thanks, I'm pretty sure it's not cancer. Question: But why me? Age? Staring too long at monitors? Drugs? It doesn't seem to effect too many others.

Same here. I hate dark mode. Especially websites in dark mode.

Re: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode

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Post by heavenlyblue » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 7:34 PM UTC

lloeki wrote: post #104

whycombagator wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure everyone has their own specific reasons. And what you suggest might be true for a subset of individuals. For me, I prefer dark mode for a couple of sight related reasons: - It makes my eye floaters much harder to notice - Light backgrounds on screens, especially white, tend to hurt my eyes more than darker ones

> Light backgrounds on screens, especially white, tend to hurt my eyes more than darker ones It was (and still is, but read on) for me until I realised that it was not light mode but backlight that was too strong. It was actually initially better with dark modes, low contrast stuff like zenburn, or (solarize light or dark) but only got worse later. The moment I realised that was a backlight (and ambient light, includ…

Low backlight usually implies bad contrast. I hate this, especially with the modern trend for various shades of grey being used and thus being indistinguishable.

Re: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode

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Post by boyadjian » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 7:44 PM UTC

It's not a problem of dark or light. It's a problem that choosing white @ 6500 K as background color is perfectly stupid. Default backgrounds for windows and internet sites should be sepia. That's what do Amazon with Kindle software, very successfully.

Re: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode

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Post by tmm84 » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 3:46 AM UTC

I think most tend to want dark mode because as humans a sea of white or some off shade of white requires so much attention from our brains to constantly scan/identify things that stand out (much like a blinking red button). I try to use light yellow/orange/brown and depending on overcast/night I'll switch to a shade of purple/green. I can't stand super dark themes.