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Luckily most of my active communities are on Discord nowadays. It works much faster and even has a dark theme by default.

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But it's not any less centralized, which I think was the complaint, not that it was popular even though this was mentioned.

> which I think was the complaint

Spot on, not that I know anything about Discord's architecture...

I say this as someone who almost always prefers the dark theme wherever it is available: I wonder how much this desire for dark interfaces comes from almost every app interface having bright colors on white.

Somewhere along the shift to flat design, grays and non-bright colors have been ignored in the visual design of applications.

In civil engineering circles, it's known that a room which is too bright will cause eye strain and fatigue. There is an optimal level of light for the eyes to be most effective. But the computer makers and UI designers don't take this into account. Dark themes transmit less light to the eyes, causing less fatigue over time.

The trick is this" if you look into a bright light you cant see the rest of the room anymore. Its a kind of forced feeding. Not that the designers of our world are guilty of some sinister CONSPIRACY. They simply see awful-white as the only choice based on tests or they are just imitating what they know.

I just installed Dark Mode for Firefox [1], it makes all websites have a dark theme. My eyes are already thanking me.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-mode-web...

> even has a dark theme by default.

I love how having a dark theme is second only to "it works" in terms of how we pick services these days XD

It's lovely how in Slack.app if you want dark theme, you have to modify the internet javascript files...

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