Dark mode is for when it's dark. People who use it at midday are quite mad in my opinion, unless it's Iceland in winter
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#42Even though most[1] 'Dark Modes' don't work for me (in the sense that everything just turns into a muddy blur and I can't make sense of anything anymore at all), I do realize that's entirely a personal thing, and I do make a point of respecting the user's preference in the apps and sites that I ship. Small price to pay for being neighborly, and a lot less passive-aggressive than "didn't anyone explain to you how to turn down your display brightness?"
[1] With the exception of that weird Windows 11 theme option that keeps the main window content 'light' yet turns most OS affordances 'dark' -- that one is oddly pleasing...
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#43I occasionally get requests from readers to add a dark mode to my blog - https://simonwillison.net/ - and I'm never sure how much priority I should give those, as someone who almost never chooses to use dark mode. Dark mode fans: does it really bother you to read white web pages?
Yes. Although something in-between works as well.
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#44I occasionally get requests from readers to add a dark mode to my blog - https://simonwillison.net/ - and I'm never sure how much priority I should give those, as someone who almost never chooses to use dark mode. Dark mode fans: does it really bother you to read white web pages?
Not me -- I can fire a Reader mode that will give me the dark appearance.
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#45The best dark mode impl i ever saw: https://web.archive.org/web/20240101060519/https://tonsky.me...
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#46I purposely switch to light mode for screenshots just to troll. And like a same person (not saying I am one just cosplaying) I adjust my windows to the ambient conditions.
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#47It's not about light/dark mode, it's about giving both options and letting the user choose.
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#48Just let people enjoy things, if you don’t like dark mode, don’t use it.
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#49This assumes low light conditions are bad for the eyesight. Which _may_ be a thing for children, but that's where the science ends.
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