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.”
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 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.
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’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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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 didn’t understand it for a long time, but I’m a vampire now :-/
Feel the picture. Generally, I agree with most said so far, prefer Darkmode most the time as well and I‘m also happy there are more and more options to choose from lately. Also screen brightness turned down, blue light filters etc., sometimes even change in color saturation, hide gifs and so on. Which definitely kills the overall experience, it just needs to be done if it gets too much.
But due to Astigmatism I realized reading texts in Lightmode or unusual/unpopular color themes seem easier to the eyes, even more so when reading/writing longer texts (or simpler tasks such as scrolling through posts, figuring out how to word an Email for an hour), as well as working a lot on PC. Unfortunately there‘s just very few sites, themes or settings that do it for me concerning the font/color/brightness combo.
edit:wording.
I honestly prefer light mode because that’s what I grew up on. Back then it was light mode or bust.
My retinas getting scorched out into the wee hours of the morning definitely drew me to DarkReader so I could just have an easy switch to nullify that decision. When I switched from the Microsoft Spyware OS, it was a relief to be able to globally enable dark mode with a key binding in my other windows so I could spend more than 5 seconds in the Windows settings without staring into Doc Ock’s pocket sun…
I can’t imagine how people can use a computer all day and not have damage to their vision without dark readers :D
