- Dark mode is a placebo. If your eyes hurt from the screen, then increase ambient light in the room so the amount of light around you is balanced and your irises will stay in same settings - main source of your pain.
If light would be a big problem, you would be going blind during sunny summer day.
- Dark mode is fashion. If it were about headaches from bright screens, you would turn down the brightness.
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- > Oh, fuck off. I am sorry but you are exactly the reason this article was written. Ignorant people like you
I understand you find that comment upsetting, but it's never acceptable to post personal abuse like this on HN, no matter who or what you're replying to.
The guidelines make it clear what style of participation is expected and what is off limits. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.
- Bright text on dark backgrounds is unreadable garbage to me, like a kaleidoscope of strokes and shapes. I think it is because of astygmatism, not sure.
When software doesn't provide a light theme, I can't use it at all. Thankfully websites are easy to fix with browser addons... ffmpeg documentation in particular looks so bad by default in my opinion.
You should always give the user a choice because it's usually very trivial to make a theme and saves everone trouble down the line. Finding the option to switch can still be a pain sometimes which is silly.
- yes, and pushing the colour inversion (or 'turning down the brightness') breaks all of the default settings meaning the user's keyboard flips from dark to bright. This results on people with low vision who rely on darkmode having to toggle colour inversion on and off constantly - a 5 min task becomes 50mins!
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- And yet the site is in light mode?
- It's available in both light and dark modes :-)
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