Post APXdVBVD9P530IDZdA by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
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(DIR) Post #A475gKhZOtxtO70fVg by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
2021-02-09T00:33:41Z
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*sadly goes to reset the counter to 0 on the "days since I saw someone shit on the existence of light themes" sign*I think on average I see this like once a week.I cannot see dark themes at all. And it's a hell of a thing to see this hostility not just to a software option but to my own existence and qualities as a person who uses this option. Like I've seen people say you have to be a psychopath to use light theme, which is an awesome way to double up on the ableism!
(DIR) Post #A475gLCPYEdQvlRIa8 by wolfie@queer.party
2021-02-09T00:37:43Z
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@bright_helpings yeah I saw the psychopath one too, discord users definitely upped the hostility toward light themes with their edgy memes
(DIR) Post #A475gLl9T4QMfVh2jQ by galena@paws.moe
2021-02-09T23:58:29.894313Z
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@wolfie @bright_helpings I miss back in the day when dark themes were the "edgy" unpopular themes people would get bullied for, that was usually pretty fun
(DIR) Post #APXckArlhM59Q7LvaS by Rasp@raru.re
2022-11-12T22:24:50Z
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@bright_helpings I feel the same when people shit on / don't include dark mode I have serious light sensitivity. that shit burns my eyes
(DIR) Post #APXdV6nSe7hwPRiZsm by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
2021-02-24T09:06:49Z
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Something else about light themes I don't think I've seen in so many words:I strongly suspect most apps these days are made for dark theme, in dark theme, by people who only like dark theme. The light theme sometimes doesn't work great, or it feels grudgingly implemented, half-assed.The dark themes you see probably are optimized by people who care about them but don't think that means the light ones are. They aren't necessarily ideal for people who need light themes; this is just all we get.
(DIR) Post #APXdV9htpG2dR48g88 by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
2021-02-24T20:45:10Z
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Having just been talking about poorly-designed light themes this morning, I'm delighted to see that @Tusky updated for me this evening and its (already perfectly good, I hasten to add that this isn't one of the grudging, bad ones I was talking about!) light theme looks even better now! Better contrast. :) Hurrah.
(DIR) Post #APXdVBVD9P530IDZdA by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
2021-04-17T08:47:08Z
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Oh by the way I confirmed this is true for Discord specifically. https://blog.discord.com/light-theme-redeemed-c541b7ab13e9 "Even within our office, it was hard to find more than one or two actual light theme users. Our small team of designers didn’t design with it in mind when creating new features. It became an afterthought. Testing on light theme was rare, and considered a chore.""It eventually became a Discord community inside joke that light theme was bad and you were bad for using it."
(DIR) Post #APXdVBZ6uuCRCO2gi0 by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
2022-11-12T20:49:16Z
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Dark mode is ubiquitous. It's the default on almost every program.And I can't see text on it at all, I struggle to do so even long enough to switch to light mode.I despair of the myths around its (objective, universal) superiority.And yet, for all my frustration with it, it's never occurred to me to hurl weird insults at all dark mode users as individuals.I'm not even mad, it's just very odd to see, at regular intervals, the vitriol leveled at everyone who uses light mode....why?
(DIR) Post #APXdVBasoJcLHss6TI by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
2021-04-03T19:08:08Z
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I'm so tired.At first I couldn't even read this text telling me that the app had been switched to dark mode (no shit) and how to stop it.The developers never consider that light theme could be a necessity, and it shows!It was especially infuriating to see, when I did summon the spoons to change it, that it'd been automatically set to dark theme just because I have my phone in battery saver mode. It's not quite a myth that dark themes save battery, but it's certainly not usually the case!
(DIR) Post #APXdVDCUpxIaGpTejo by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
2021-04-17T08:53:24Z
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Interestingly, that post is a couple years old and it was written to announce the new golden age of light theme; I started using Discord after that and I still hate it, haha.But it's amazing to see how much worse it was! The sidebar was still dark! Because no one could need to read those words too! The contrast is terrible! If you love dark so much why is the text medium-grey?! The fonts are so thin! Fonts are the thing that shouldn't be light even in light mode! ( https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/)
(DIR) Post #APXdVDL0KK6WhDSS00 by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
2022-11-12T21:56:11Z
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I, in the nicest possible way, do not care if people like/prefer/need dark mode. Or light mode! It's a real "difference of opinion" situation; your choice doesn't affect anyone else so do what you like!I just think both should be options, both should be treated as equally important in development, and no one should be mean to the individual people using the other.It's just weird that the failures to do this, that I see anyway, all seem to be on one side of this dark/light binary.
(DIR) Post #APXdVDR1xuvOzuHGOO by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
2021-04-16T23:48:23Z
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It says a lot when I see this and all I can think is "oh no, please don't be dark mode, please don't let this 'sleek new look' mean obligate dark mode, oh no it says 'easier on the eyes' helppp meeee..."
(DIR) Post #APXdVF0W7Su9sFt7LM by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
2021-04-16T23:52:57Z
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They haven't made me use dark theme.They HAVE made the text smaller.*weeps*There is no ability to change the text size (as far as I can tell but...you know, I'm struggling to read the settings menu now!).
(DIR) Post #APXdVGNwzpFA9DrLVY by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
2021-04-17T00:01:50Z
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You can change the font! They have three font choices! But you cannot change the size of the font.Developers please stop thinking something works before you've hired disabled devs or paid good accessibility consultants to give you their expertise, because otherwise you're going to keep thinking "it works" means the same thing as "it works for me" and you're going to miss a lot of important shit that way.
(DIR) Post #APXqjjsdQkG35CRdDs by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2022-11-13T01:01:10.809798Z
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@bright_helpings Kind of thing where I think developers/designers/managers should just want software to follow system settings when it comes to anything about fonts, color palette, stock icons, …As well as typically not re-creating stock widgets (hate it when a text-entry prevents non-ASCII letters).It's stuff that tends to work just right by default, they're creating bugs. :/
(DIR) Post #APXrEP1Z1RwPNOF6Z6 by clacke@libranet.de
2022-11-13T01:04:26Z
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@lanodan @bright_helpings Yeah. Phones and web browsers have dark/light preference, please follow that by default.
(DIR) Post #APXrEQ5V4IgSft5lL6 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2022-11-13T01:06:46.897930Z
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@clacke @bright_helpings I think desktops also do, otherwise toolkit level, which is still much better than application-level.
(DIR) Post #APXtm8srjo5X4XOFoO by clacke@libranet.de
2021-03-09T05:45:01Z
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@bright_helpings Any idea where the current hype for dark themes comes from?I thought going from green-on-black screens to black-on-white screens in the 90s was an upgrade. Easier on the eyes, more like paper print.Is it all retro, or do people claim readability benefits? Power consumption benefits?
(DIR) Post #APXtmAVBioKw5gKNBQ by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2022-11-13T01:35:42Z
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@clacke @bright_helpings It's a recurring thing, like the yo-yo. Once you've lived through a couple of cycles, you start ignoring it.
(DIR) Post #APZkR2M4J4ylTDpZPE by loke@functional.cafe
2022-11-13T01:09:25Z
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@bright_helpings I just have astigmatism, not poor eyesight, and the dark themes are incredibly painful for me.I can read it, but the eye strain is significant, and my limit is to a few paragraphs.The worst are web pages with dark background. Whatever content is on them is going to be out of reach for the me unless reader models works on it. There used to be a great Firefox extension that fixed the colours. The default was to make light pages dark but it could be switched to do the opposite and the result was great.After an update the ability to make pages light disappeared. And I was unable to find an alternative.
(DIR) Post #APZkR2pUXgVywTb4Ge by js@mstdn.io
2022-11-13T23:00:20Z
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@loke @bright_helpings I have astigmatism *and* poor eye sight and still vastly prefer dark mode - light mode just hurts my eyes a lot. So I don’t think it has anything to do with that at all.