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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday October 26 2019, @12:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-don't-know-the-power-of-the-dark-mode dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bart9h on Saturday October 26 2019, @04:06PM (2 children)

    by bart9h (767) on Saturday October 26 2019, @04:06PM (#912106)

    How good it is to have a dark theme on my desktop environment and my browser, if the webpages are all white?

    There is a nice browser extension (I use it in Firefox, but looks like it works on Chrome too) called Stylus, that let's you apply themes no any website.

    You can write the CSS theme by hand, but the good part is that there is an extensive database of user-contributed themes that you can easily pick from, covering all major sites, and even most of the not so famous ones (like cppreference.com, open.gl, nature.com, duckduckgo.com, etc)

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by dx3bydt3 on Saturday October 26 2019, @08:30PM (1 child)

    by dx3bydt3 (82) on Saturday October 26 2019, @08:30PM (#912178)

    Also Soylentnews!
    I made one of the first, if not the first dark styles for this site: https://userstyles.org/styles/98714/soylent-news-dark [userstyles.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @08:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @08:50PM (#912954)

      Awesome, thank you so much for finally allowing me to enjoy a dark theme without creating an account.

      Looks like form elements are still white, so I might have to add some tweaks to your style.