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The Dark Mode Craze May Do More Harm than Good – This is Why

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.

upstart writes:

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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, Interesting) by vux984 on Sunday October 27 2019, @03:13AM (1 child)

    by vux984 (5045) on Sunday October 27 2019, @03:13AM (#912277)

    before wysiwyg white-mode all the editors I spent a lot of time in were trending from grey/white on black to grey / white / yellow text on blue backgrounds.

    Wordperfect 6
    Borland C++
    Norton Commander

    IIRC all had that color scheme as the default. I found it fine at the time, although lately there is this whole freakout about blue light so i find that interesting.

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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday October 27 2019, @05:45PM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday October 27 2019, @05:45PM (#912472) Journal
    Quickedit and multiedit (Multiedit was quite something for it's time- could edit a 32 meg text file using less than 64k of ram at a time when the maximum partition size was also 32 megs.)

    People forget that early web browsers from both Microsoft and Netscape defaulted to a light grey background and you had to set the body background attribute to #ffffff to get a white background.

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