alt Hacker NewsHacker News itself is a prime example of a website that doesn’t support dark mode, but could do so trivially (and, IMO, would look so much better if it did!)
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https://hcker.news was originally made so i didnt solar flash my kid in bed while they were sleeping
it now has many dark themes, bloomberg is my favorite.
There is no downside to having prefers-color-scheme media query set up, even for HN. Too bad still roughly 1 in 4 popular websites support it.
If anyone here is open to using the Stylus extension, I've re-shared a dark theme for Hacker News recently and it's been lovely. [0]
Dark mode and some small improvements for mobile usage would be amazing and don't seem at all hard. It's pretty amazing HN hasn't implemented them.
there are a lot of design choices which Hacker News does not support ;)
They’re now formally interested in doing one but, I imagine, not very urgently relative to flag reasons and other stuff.
I got neurological lyme disease a few years ago. Anything with a white background was like a VGA cable being half plugged in.
The fact that this website wasn’t capable of dark mode made me create a CSS overlay on desktop.
I am back to somewhat normal now with my eyes, but I feel really bad for anyone in the same position.
I know that the current exact HN is magic, but come on. There is CSS to detect the system’s theme. There is no need to create a button or anything.
Please no. Dark mode is extremely difficult to read for me.
My HN is in dark mode, though the honors for that accomplishment go to the duckduck browser. Been reading HN on dark mode a while now (light mode burns me eyes, only way to use HN for me now is with the Duck)
P.S. the Duck browser literally has a universal dark mode setting, I don't recall a site it wasn't able to dark-force darkify for me (language is fun)