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I believe at this point dark mode should be treated as an accessibility feature and built right into browsers and css hints. Until that, just use DarkReader ext
by wruza 2y ago
I believe at this point dark mode should be treated as an accessibility feature and built right into browsers and css hints. Until that, just use DarkReader extension with suitable settings. It can change brightness, contrast, saturation and plays well with syntax coloring etc. Screws up only a few sites where you can turn it off on per-site basis. No in-site dark mode does that, and dark modes are often even more toxic than bright modes.
- xign 2y agoThe reason why this is tricky to do is that websites have custom designs. It's not a trivial problem to make a dark mode version of the design. You can't just flip the colors. There are design work in making sure your design works well in both dark and light modes. Most automatic dark mode solutions don't usually work across the board.
- michelb 2y agoHow many non-tech people actively choose dark mode?
- deafpolygon 2y agoAnd how many can't really use it because of accessibility and vision issues?
- xxs 2y agodark mode gets harder to read w/ age progressing...
- wruza 2y agoHow many non-tech sites do have it? Editing incorrect argument: More importantly, how many allow setting a specific contrast instead of just “dark mode” as-is.
- vladvasiliu 2y agoJudging by what I see at work, where people seem to use dark mode during daytime in teams, outlook and others, which isn’t the default AFAIK, I’d say quite a fair bit.
- beardyw 2y agoI (tech) hate dark mode. My wife (very non tech) uses it.
- walthamstow 2y agoI love dark mode... when it's dark! When my colleagues are using dark mode in a sunny and well-lit room, I'm thinking guys do you just really love squinting?
- fecal_henge 2y agoWell look at you with your well-lit room.
- xxs 2y agoMy daughter does, and she is a rare example. I consider it a waste of time/resources. Brings me back to black/green displays.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y agoHow does dark mode waste time and resources? It technically can save resources.
- xxs 2y agoSomeone has to develop and maintain it. It's difficult to quantify the development/datacenter efforts with respect to end user displays. I do doubt dark mode comes ahead at all at any rate. Morealso, OLED displays are overall ill-suited for regular work due to burn-in -- those are the only ones that 'can' save energy (unless you count CRT - but they would be way worse to begin with). The cost of the shorter lifespan OLED (burn-in) would heavily outweight the energy saved - you are looking at 15-20Wh top. Note: displays with backlight (the extreme vast majority) display blacks by blocking the light, so the dark mode alone doesn't save anything. There are ones with local dimming that can partially benefit.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y agoLocal dimming is becoming more popular, OLED is improving, and MiniLED or whatever they call it will be viable one day. Maybe you're right about that not offsetting whatever server costs though. I don't think "develop and maintain" affects the environment, but maybe OP was including human resources.
- LorenzoGood 2y agoMost people younger than 20 that I know except myself exclusiveley use dark mode.