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Wish HN had a dark mode setting as well.

by csunbird 6y ago

thrill 6y ago
Dammit man, I can only give you one upvote.
flixic 6y ago
Github is now removed from my Dark Mode Safari extension. Only two sites remain: Hacker News and Wikipedia.
- lucideer 6y ago
  Wikipedia support supplying your own custom.css which is applied whenever you're logged in. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalCssJs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalCssJs
MH15 6y ago
There have been some pretty solid userstyles for HN. There was a big thread about it a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966 Many really good themes you can install with Stylish or whatever extension works with your browser.
- geerlingguy 6y ago
  Browser extensions aren't universal, unfortunately :( I often use all of Safari, FireFox, Chrome, and maybe one or two mobile browsers in a day, and the dissonance from having different styles on the same site in different browsers is worse than having to suffer through not having dark mode for me.
  - boogies 6y ago
    Stylus should work on Firefox, Chrome, and mobile Firefox.
dheera 6y ago
Install a browser plugin that allows you to inject custom CSS.
simias 6y ago
I use this extension: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news It offers dark mode and many useful quality-of-life UI tweaks.
- Forbo 6y ago
  I'm not understanding how to apply the dark mode using this extension. I see that it has it in the "Custom CSS" field, but what then needs to be done to apply the CSS? This is probably really obvious to most of the userbase, but I'm pretty inept when it comes to anything pertaining to web design. Also, the text in the extension is nigh unreadable. I have to highlight it all to get enough contrast to make it visible. This is on Firefox, anyone else have this issue? https://ibb.co/Hdz6gP2 https://ibb.co/Hdz6gP2
  - dont__panic 6y ago
    I have that same problem. I think hitting the "dark mode" CSS preset (which pastes the CSS, unreadable of course, into the edit box) and then pressing Enter actually let the style stick. I also had to refresh my HN pages for that particular change to take effect.
    - Forbo 6y ago
      It looks like there might be a bug or two that is getting ironed out. The many eyes are working! https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/84 https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/84
    - plibither8 6y ago
      Hi! I'm the developer of the extension. The Firefox version needs a lot of work in the popup's CSS to make it visible. FF made some internal changes and ever since then it has stopped displaying text properly. I'll get onto it soon.
- plibither8 6y ago
  RHN's dev here - just saw this. Thanks :)
lobo_tuerto 6y ago
You can try a browser extension like: Dark Reader.
jeduardo 6y ago
If you're using any chrome-based browser, you might want to enable the "force dark mode for web content" flag under chrome://flags. Some few websites look weird, but the vast majority becomes pleasantly darker. HN looks good. I cannot live without this option anymore.

Wish HN had a dark mode setting as well.

thrill 6y ago

Dammit man, I can only give you one upvote.

flixic 6y ago

Github is now removed from my Dark Mode Safari extension. Only two sites remain: Hacker News and Wikipedia.

lucideer 6y ago
Wikipedia support supplying your own custom.css which is applied whenever you're logged in. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalCssJs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalCssJs

MH15 6y ago

There have been some pretty solid userstyles for HN. There was a big thread about it a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966 Many really good themes you can install with Stylish or whatever extension works with your browser.

geerlingguy 6y ago
Browser extensions aren't universal, unfortunately :( I often use all of Safari, FireFox, Chrome, and maybe one or two mobile browsers in a day, and the dissonance from having different styles on the same site in different browsers is worse than having to suffer through not having dark mode for me.
- boogies 6y ago
  Stylus should work on Firefox, Chrome, and mobile Firefox.

dheera 6y ago

Install a browser plugin that allows you to inject custom CSS.

simias 6y ago

I use this extension: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news It offers dark mode and many useful quality-of-life UI tweaks.

Forbo 6y ago
I'm not understanding how to apply the dark mode using this extension. I see that it has it in the "Custom CSS" field, but what then needs to be done to apply the CSS? This is probably really obvious to most of the userbase, but I'm pretty inept when it comes to anything pertaining to web design. Also, the text in the extension is nigh unreadable. I have to highlight it all to get enough contrast to make it visible. This is on Firefox, anyone else have this issue? https://ibb.co/Hdz6gP2 https://ibb.co/Hdz6gP2
- dont__panic 6y ago
  I have that same problem. I think hitting the "dark mode" CSS preset (which pastes the CSS, unreadable of course, into the edit box) and then pressing Enter actually let the style stick. I also had to refresh my HN pages for that particular change to take effect.
  - Forbo 6y ago
    It looks like there might be a bug or two that is getting ironed out. The many eyes are working! https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/84 https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/84
  - plibither8 6y ago
    Hi! I'm the developer of the extension. The Firefox version needs a lot of work in the popup's CSS to make it visible. FF made some internal changes and ever since then it has stopped displaying text properly. I'll get onto it soon.
plibither8 6y ago
RHN's dev here - just saw this. Thanks :)

lobo_tuerto 6y ago

You can try a browser extension like: Dark Reader.

jeduardo 6y ago

If you're using any chrome-based browser, you might want to enable the "force dark mode for web content" flag under chrome://flags. Some few websites look weird, but the vast majority becomes pleasantly darker. HN looks good. I cannot live without this option anymore.