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Ask HN: Why does HN has no dark mode?

laurex 7y ago
There are myriad apps built on the HN API that provide this. Materialistic for Android and Octal for iOS are two good ones.
- mtmail 7y ago
  A couple of more solutions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19232733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19232733
- searchableguy 7y ago
  Yeah I am aware. I like the official design though. It's minimalistic and I often read on mobile so can't have an extension. It just seemed very intuitive given the presence of top color option.
anigbrowl 7y ago
Build your own, Hacker.
- tywkeene 6y ago
  The only valid response to this question (a question asked on hacker news of all places)
  - krapp 6y ago
    > The only valid response to this question (a question asked on hacker news of all places) Hacker News - a site where people make a sport of middlebrow dismissals of others' work and complaining about the features of other sites and software they very likely have never had a single PR accepted for. The real answer is that PG probably just added to topbar feature to have a karma reward for users to work towards as a means of positive reinforcement (I haven't actually found a specific quote from him on that) and also that the current admins tend to be conservative about adding new features, so likely they don't believe a dark mode would improve the quality of the site enough to be worth the effort.
dilandau 7y ago
This has to be the lowest-effort bait I've seen in a while. Rather than point out all the things wrong with this question, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader.
- searchableguy 7y ago
  Can you tell me what? I just asked because there is an option to change the top bar. It seems weird to not have dark mode given the nature of the users on the site but I would understand if there was an intentional reason as there are in many tiny things here.
nallo 6y ago
Just turn down brightness on your screen..
satvikpendem 6y ago
Use something like the Dark Reader extension, as I do.

There are myriad apps built on the HN API that provide this. Materialistic for Android and Octal for iOS are two good ones.

mtmail 7y ago
A couple of more solutions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19232733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19232733
searchableguy 7y ago
Yeah I am aware. I like the official design though. It's minimalistic and I often read on mobile so can't have an extension. It just seemed very intuitive given the presence of top color option.

anigbrowl 7y ago

Build your own, Hacker.

tywkeene 6y ago
The only valid response to this question (a question asked on hacker news of all places)
- krapp 6y ago
  > The only valid response to this question (a question asked on hacker news of all places) Hacker News - a site where people make a sport of middlebrow dismissals of others' work and complaining about the features of other sites and software they very likely have never had a single PR accepted for. The real answer is that PG probably just added to topbar feature to have a karma reward for users to work towards as a means of positive reinforcement (I haven't actually found a specific quote from him on that) and also that the current admins tend to be conservative about adding new features, so likely they don't believe a dark mode would improve the quality of the site enough to be worth the effort.

dilandau 7y ago

This has to be the lowest-effort bait I've seen in a while. Rather than point out all the things wrong with this question, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader.

searchableguy 7y ago
Can you tell me what? I just asked because there is an option to change the top bar. It seems weird to not have dark mode given the nature of the users on the site but I would understand if there was an intentional reason as there are in many tiny things here.

nallo 6y ago

Just turn down brightness on your screen..

satvikpendem 6y ago

Use something like the Dark Reader extension, as I do.