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."
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
Basically any website thats not darkmode feels like staring into the sun. Like wtf are you thinking.
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!
Heck yeah!! I do the same thing with the dark and bright contrast on my desktop running Cinnamon:
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.
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.
I didn’t understand it for a long time, but I’m a vampire now :-/
Yeah, I’ve been using dark mode for everything for at least 2 years. I also use night shift to adjust the screen to a warmer color temp. I’ve dealt with chronic migraines for years, and light was a big trigger.
Light is a big trigger for me as well, so dark mode for everything. The lights in my office are super bright… best I can do is dim my screens, so I have backlighting set to zero.
Well someone changed the brightness/backlight on all my screens to 100% to screw with me, and I thought it was just, you know, me being overly sensitive? It happens sometimes. I didn’t assume someone would change my screens, why would I? It’s a pain in the ass to do…
I had like 3 weeks of intense daily headaches and more migraines than normal, before I realized what happened and changed it back. Apparently my health/wellbeing is a joke. So glad I’m getting out of here.
Dark mode all day and redshift set based on the sunrise and sunset on both desktop and phone. I won’t go back.
Also I’m gonna do another suggestion for Dark Reader browser extension. It’s great!
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.
Dark mode all the time and from 10pm on my phone switches to grayscale to help me put it away.
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.
I use dark mode late at night, especially using amoled screens under artificial lights or with all the lights off in bed. I don’t like using it when I’m outside, it seems off somehow.
congruenceeeee 🤤
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.
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’ve been needing new glasses for a while, the struggle is real…
(I just realised I forgot to say the actually relevant part - reading dark text on bright background is so much harder when you can’t see well 😂)
