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Dark Mode for Slack
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Re: Dark Mode for Slack
#62Now that’s done, please delete the drafts section, so messages stay in one place?
My main two feature requests would be: - Add a way to mute notifications from an individual user - Add a way to organize threads by topic For the first one, I believe they've said they will never implement it. For the second one, I'm holding out that someone will realize how crappy the threading implementation is, but I don't have much hope.
Oh man, completely muting a user would be amazing.
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#63Is dark mode a fashion thing or does it really helps with eye strain? In darker surroundings, I just lower the brightness.
I think it's a fashion thing with a thin veneer of eye strain reduction (since, AFAIK, there's little conclusive evidence dark mode matters here)
Not for me, nobody looking at my computer except for me and I have Slack now in dark mode, I have Dark Background and Light Text in Firefox (also dark mode) and custom dark style sheets in Stylus where they are available and good.
Maybe it's because I'm getting older, but staring at a blinding white computer monitor inches from my face all day as a software engineer HURTS. Like, literally hurts after a while.
Dark mode is much easier on the eyes.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's a fashion thing with a thin veneer of eye strain reduction (since, AFAIK, there's little conclusive evidence dark mode matters here)
I have HN and a terminal open side by side, and I can tell you HN is more painful to look at, simply because it's like shining flashlight into the eyes compared to a black-background terminal.
Dark Background on Light Text extension is great and you can customize the colors.
Also, try Stylus with the "Hacker News Readable Dark" style.
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#65This is actually a pretty bad implementation. It's very hard to read compared to my IDE dark modes.
Like the font weight is too high or something. I had to change back to Light mode.
I'm all about dark mode but not a fan here. They need to spend some time and make it more readable.
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#66Human eye’s signal amplification curve is not linear. [1] You can’t convert an existing app to dark mode so much as building a new design for it, or it looks weird. Youtube’s Dark mode is an example of this uncanny valley.
Funnily enough, they themselves illustrated the issue with the first image on their post, in how weird the version on the left looks.
Besides - what we need isn’t a full dark mode, it’s an app that is built for the human eye. Dark mode is as extreme as staring into a white lightbulb all day, which is what the light mode is.
An example of this is Aether (disclosure: it’s a project I’m designing for: https://aether.app).
It’s designed for the ‘dark’ mode from scratch, or rather, it’s at 40% mode and it’s the only UI, so it aims to work well for both day and night. So we don’t have to go for the one or the other.
(I’m not sure about posting here since it’s a ‘Slack competitor’ and I don’t want to look like advertising, but hey, I guess it’s relevant)
[1] Contrast Threshold Curve of Human Vision https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Contrast-threshold-curve...
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#67Is dark mode a fashion thing or does it really helps with eye strain? In darker surroundings, I just lower the brightness.
Dark mode also saves on battery life (quite significantly). That's one of the biggest reasons why Apple is rolling dark mode out on the iPhone.
Pretty sure that's not true for normal LCD where the screen is backlit. OLED is a bit different so it certainly helps there.
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#68Wonder how many trees this mode effectively saves. Google.com should have a darkmode soon I hope. :P
http://blackle.com/ is still around, if you're serious.
HTTPS is not configured correctly, nor does it have a valid TLS cert, which is from 2010. And they are running Apache 2.2.3. Yikes!
Re: Dark Mode for Slack
#69Human eye’s signal amplification curve is not linear. [1] You can’t convert an existing app to dark mode so much as building a new design for it, or it looks weird. Youtube’s Dark mode is an example of this uncanny valley. Funnily enough, they themselves illustrated the issue with the first image on their post, in how weird the version on the left looks. Besides - what we need isn’t a full dark mode, it’s an app that…
> You can’t convert an existing app to dark mode.
How can this possibly be true? Are you trying to say something else, like "just changing colors is not sufficient to create a high quality dark mode"? That is probably why it's a "mode" and not a "theme".
This tool looks nice though. This type of threading is much more appropriate for work conversations, in my experience.
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#70I'm more interested in if/when they will fix threads.
Threads in slack are horrible. The idea isn't great in itself imo, but the implementation is a terrible experience. Constantly showing "more messages" link at the bottom unless you use the small sidebar. A couple or groups I am in decided to avoid them entirely
I am wanting to try twist.com, but alot of the non-technical folks are still in love with Slack.
I think threading by default and forcing a topic would be better for channels.