A photo looking up at a residential building at least 6 stories tall. It is night time, and the vast majority of windows are dark. The windows of one residence are slightly lit. Then, the window of another residence has a light that is extremely bright blaring out of it. The caption reads, “When I open a web page that forces a white background.”
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I’ve now come out the otherside. In this latest push to get dark-mode offerings everywhere I think too many color choices have become hard on my eyes. I realized it’s been giving me eye strain headaches.
I’ve got my OS set to dark mode but there are several apps and sites that I’ve switched back over to light-mode. And as I’ve been weeding out bad dark-modes I’ve found that I’ve been able to turn my screen brightness down a bit which further helps with eye strain.
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I use dark reader. It allows you to get dark theme on sites that normally don’t have it. Its now the first plugin I install when setting up a web browser.
I use this at work because our help desk website is a white background and it is so hard on the eyes. They keep saying they’ll push out an update for dark mode and still haven’t.
This is the only site I add into this extension on my browser. Other sites can get funky with it, sometimes. Especially ones that have a dedicated dark mode already built in, like Microsoft’s help articles I routinely use.
I wish websites all had a color palette thingy in the css that is formatted the same on all sites and you change the color palette. Like 16 basic colors or something like that.
Dark reader ftw
Dark mode all the time and from 10pm on my phone switches to grayscale to help me put it away.
I use light mode on everything during the day and dark mode for everything at night. I use my device’s automatic system theme switcher to accomplish this, as well as the Dark Reader browser extension on Firefox.
I use everything on light mode all the time. Mostly to annoy my fellow developers.
I tried dark mode, including all the extensions and OS settings, but there are way too many times Windows thinks that stabbing me in the eyes with a brilliant full white screen is just the thing to do. The problem with dark mode is that to make the colours come out the brightness has to be cranked up.
Gave up on dark mode after too many of those stabs and just run in light mode now with the brightness turned down.
Dark mode with mlauncher on my home screen to remove bright annoying icons for apps, and just text based descriptions for apps. Also my wallpapers are only ever neutral colours. E.g. dark blues, monotones, etc.
I also use a monochrome colour filter, at night, or when overwhelmed. Also, I use blue light filter at night.
I insist on not using it. Instead of inverting colors, just turn down your brightness. Light text on dark background actually causes more eye strain.
I honestly prefer light mode because that’s what I grew up on. Back then it was light mode or bust.
Full dark baby. I was at Nintendo Live last weekend and they had massive difficulties scanning a qr code with dark mode; a shame really.
Dark modes and blue light filters. My parents don’t understand how I can stand to look at shit with those settings but idk how they can’t. I also have way more screentime than them though because I work in IT. I get eye strain so fuckin easy.
Saaame. The only time I turn off the blue light filter for my computer is if I’m editing photos for color accuracy. But I turn it back on the moment I finish editing.
I tried introducing f.lux to my mom, but she hated it when the filter finally started to kick in. My dad is no better; I feel he keeps his monitor on at full brightness regardless of how dark it is in the room. It physically hurts to look at his monitor.
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yes 1000%, I’ve also been shifting my desktop (running plasma) to be a sort of glowwave theme that has very high contrast yet isn’t harsh on my eyes. It’s very nice!
I’m giggling, but I’m also not certain if you were attempting to show us a screenshot of how something appears on your monitor.
Either way - it does look nice! I also dislike bright screens.
