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I don't like the fact that the site is forcing light mode on me. For people like me, who suffer from retinal/macular issues, when visiting a website, there are

I don't like the fact that the site is forcing light mode on me. For people like me, who suffer from retinal/macular issues, when visiting a website, there are several possible outcomes: - some websites support both dark and light modes and they automatically switch depending on OS-level preference. These are the best. - some websites support only the light mode, but my Chromium's flag "force dark mode" still manages to somehow display them in dark mode. These are the majority of websites today. - some websites support only the light mode in such a way that they even defeat Chromium's force-dark-mode and still show up in light mode. These are the worst.

calebhailey 1y ago
Thanks for this feedback! I agree with your analysis re: good/better/best approaches – or more like unacceptable/acceptable/good – and I shipped a website in the unacceptable state. Let me see if I can fix that today. I personally prefer the Safari browser, and I use an extension (Noir) for forcing dark mode. So where you rely Chromium's "force dark mode", Noir detects if a website has a built-in dark mode available and uses that, otherwise it just applies its own dark mode. This has been working well on hypertemplates.net, and that was acceptable during my documentation sprint over these past few weeks, but I'd rather not leave my visitors UX up individual browser configurations (via extensions or chrome flags).
- atmanactive 1y ago
  Thank you for understanding. I don't use extensions as I don't trust them. I use about 10 different browsers on my desktop and about 5 different browsers on my mobile, and, on both platforms only one of those browsers is set with the force-dark-mode, and that one is set as the default browser. Like a decontamination chamber of sorts. All interesting and well behaved sites continue on to other browsers, some even find their permanent place. Sites that do not cooperate with force-dark-mode are extremely rare, and if they happen to be of utmost importance then I can enable a desktop utility which inverts the colors for the whole screen, but this happens maybe two or three times a year. Thanks.
  - calebhailey 1y ago
    I deployed an initial implementation of dark mode earlier this afternoon. It should respect the system dark mode toggle without requiring a page reload. I'm not a designer so it took me longer to tweak/choose colors than actually implement support for prefers-color-scheme. I hope this helps!
    - atmanactive 1y ago
      Working perfectly. Now I can read the page. Thank you very much!

calebhailey 1y ago

Thanks for this feedback! I agree with your analysis re: good/better/best approaches – or more like unacceptable/acceptable/good – and I shipped a website in the unacceptable state. Let me see if I can fix that today. I personally prefer the Safari browser, and I use an extension (Noir) for forcing dark mode. So where you rely Chromium's "force dark mode", Noir detects if a website has a built-in dark mode available and uses that, otherwise it just applies its own dark mode. This has been working well on hypertemplates.net, and that was acceptable during my documentation sprint over these past few weeks, but I'd rather not leave my visitors UX up individual browser configurations (via extensions or chrome flags).

atmanactive 1y ago
Thank you for understanding. I don't use extensions as I don't trust them. I use about 10 different browsers on my desktop and about 5 different browsers on my mobile, and, on both platforms only one of those browsers is set with the force-dark-mode, and that one is set as the default browser. Like a decontamination chamber of sorts. All interesting and well behaved sites continue on to other browsers, some even find their permanent place. Sites that do not cooperate with force-dark-mode are extremely rare, and if they happen to be of utmost importance then I can enable a desktop utility which inverts the colors for the whole screen, but this happens maybe two or three times a year. Thanks.
- calebhailey 1y ago
  I deployed an initial implementation of dark mode earlier this afternoon. It should respect the system dark mode toggle without requiring a page reload. I'm not a designer so it took me longer to tweak/choose colors than actually implement support for prefers-color-scheme. I hope this helps!
  - atmanactive 1y ago
    Working perfectly. Now I can read the page. Thank you very much!