Submitted via IRC for soylent_brown
The Dark Mode craze may do more harm than good – this is why
The hot new topic in terms of smartphone and computer software right now is Dark Mode, an optional system look that flips the colors of an app or operating system to make it, well, dark. Instagram has a dark mode, as does Chrome, WhatsApp, Gmail, and iOS 13, and it seems apps and developers are tripping over themselves to create a new dark mode for their software.
There's just one problem which none of these hard-working people seem to have considered that makes their work redundant, and the attention they've taken from other projects will be in vain: all in all, dark mode looks totally awful.
That's not a dig at any dark mode in particular, and no developers have implemented it particularly poorly (well, apart from Android 10). But in the rush for developers to see if they could implement dark mode on their apps, no-one asked if they should - and taken stock of how it might be reworked better rather than just following the trend.
Beyond that, there are legitimate reasons why developers shouldn't be focusing on Dark Mode. Here's why the Dark Mode craze is just crazy.
So dear soylentils, do you use dark mode on your applications, and why or why not?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Saturday October 26 2019, @01:19PM (4 children)
Some asshole blogger thinks it's awful? Well, that asshole blogger can go fuck himself. Why the fuck is this news?
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Saturday October 26 2019, @01:33PM (2 children)
But we cannot trust "nitehawk" to discern correct legibility for the avg dude...
Account abandoned.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @01:51PM (1 child)
Yes we can. Fuck that blogger.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday October 27 2019, @02:09AM
As somebody running our VT100 theme, I heartily agree :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:54PM
Yeah, some blogger thinks it's ass. Others think it's the shit. It's a topic for discussion. If you're not interested then just move on.