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Very cool. Shame the website is dark mode only which only makes it harder to read for people with astigmatism.
by pier25 5mo ago
Very cool. Shame the website is dark mode only which only makes it harder to read for people with astigmatism.
- lnxg33k1 5mo agoBut a very rare form of astigmatism I guess? Because I've had it for 30+ years and I can read it perfectly without any effort?
- Barrin92 5mo agohalation (bleeding of the text into the background) happens for all people with astigmatism with white text on dark background but severity will obviously differ depending on your personal environment. But given that about 50% of people have some form of astigmatism dark mode default has been a horrid trend.
- lnxg33k1 5mo agoAh maybe because I have always lights off, so it's dark surrounded by dark ^^
- pier25 5mo agoI can read it for like a minute or two. After that I get halation issues and the white text seems to start burning into my retina or something. It's not so bad for a UI like eg Spotify but anything with actual text content is an issue.
- kepano 5mo agoThat's because Obsidian is black. But we're planning to add light mode in the near future :)
- pier25 5mo agoI'm a fan of Obsidian and your work but dark mode only is an issue for a big percentage of the population. https://medium.com/@h_locke/why-dark-mode-causes-more-accessibility-issues-than-it-solves-54cddf6466f5 https://medium.com/@h_locke/why-dark-mode-causes-more-access...
- kepano 5mo agoThe app has had light mode since 2020 :) Obsidian is a small team and I am pretty much the only person working on the website but I hope to add it soon.
- pier25 5mo agoI use Obsidian with light mode ;) (also applied to work with you!)
- kid64 5mo agoWtf are you doing with all the money? Hire some actual engineers already, Jesus.
- tredre3 5mo agoMost people don't pay for Obsidian, do you imagine they're raking in hundreds of millions? It's hard to know how many users they have, and they're overrepresented on this forum so it's easy to be carried away with our estimates, but let's say they have 1M active users. Then let's say 5% of them pay the $50/yr for sync. That's only $2.5M, divided between 5-10 people. Good salary, but not outrageous and not much room to add many employees.
- uncSoft 5mo agoI was "bullied" into making a light theme for my app as well after refusing for months - I didn't realize how many people need a light mode.
- bachmeier 5mo agoReader mode in Firefox is one click to dark text on a white background. Presumably other browsers have the same thing.
- pier25 5mo agoIt works for blog posts and articles but not anything more complex than that.