Seriously, try it. It’s like a completely new phone/internet. It feels so… so… clean and fresh ✨
ew, gross
I’ll keep my phone on light mode this week to see if it wins me over but honestly this is pretty awful.
I admire your open mind!
Only when the website is unreadable using dark reader. Then i immediately hate the website for having ungodly bright everything.
I switch to light mode on my old MacBook due to the screen not getting to bright in the first place. It’s nice
@Jezebelley yes accidentally, and my retinas burned out.
I feel you. My eyes are already suffering fatigue but it was a nice 10min experiment.
@Jezebelley Ah I see, this is obviously some strange usage of the word nice that I hadn’t previously been aware of 😅
In all seriousness, I installed Firefox the other day just to say that I have given it a go, and my god without forcing dark mode on everything was really terrible. I can’t believe there was a time that that was all we had!
depends on the thing; i almost never actively switch programs and apps off their default light/dark modes, so if im used to youtube on light mode, im keeping it on light mode.
Did that on my old ThinkPad with basically nonexistent screen brightness. Difference like night and day
Lemmy is one of the few places where light mode makes sense. It’s like nobody creates graphics/images with dark mode in mind, so there’s always some ugly white border, or garbage alpha channel somewhere. It really blows.
Wait… there’s a dark mode?
It still annoys me that dark mode is not universally available on every app.
It annoys me more that some apps have no light mode now. It’s not a “one is better” problem, both have their use!
one is definitely better. I’ll concede there are extremely niche usually compatability related use cases for light mode, but if there’s a default, it should absolutely be dark.
What’s more annoying are apps that have 3 options.
Light, dark, or follow system. But follow system doesn’t follow system, it is light mode.
Looking at you Slack.That’s strange. I don’t think I’ve ever had that before.
I’ve had it where some apps will give you a kind of greyish dark mode instead of black, that you then need to switch to. But I’ve never had apps use the opposite to my system settings.
Are you sure you have your system set to dark mode? Is this on Android？
It happened to me on desktop yesterday on some other site. It’s definitely a common bug!
Yes, when collaborating with someone who was only familiar with light mode and felt disoriented by the different appearance. I wanted to scream and hiss like a vampire.
I really can’t anymore. The sites that come up blazing white hurt.
Maddox may be a douche now, but he had it right in the early 00s.
Oh let’s be realistic, Maddox was always a douche. That’s his schtick.
For some reason I prefer light mode on photon for Lemmy. Dunno why. I used dark mode for most everything else.
Even as the dev I feel this about photon, i spend so much time messing with dark theme’s colors just to end up preferring light mode anyway
I have enough experience with new devices starting in light mode as default to know that I can’t ever go back.
There are a few websites that don’t appear to have a dark mode that I still read sometimes, and for those the brightness has to be turned down to make it tolerable.
try an extension like Dark Reader if you’re ever on firefox desktop
Giving it a try now, thanks!
Yes, on an IDE with a horrendous dark theme. Don’t remember which one it was tho. It wasn’t a good experience, still better than the alternative.
