I'm on board with ceasing and desisting from screwing it up.
Keeping something the way it is, is super hard in tons of ways a lot of us probably don't understand. We appreciate you.
HN design is simply the best thing out there. "Moving slowly and preserving things" - I would get this engraved on my grave. This philosophy has died unfortunately and with it went robustness, simplicity, elegance, poise, beauty, accessibility, elegance, maintainability and practicality.
Thanks dang for your gandalf-like wisdom and your resilience. I like Alligators over goddamn mosquitos that have taken over the internet.
Please dang!
I second the other commenter, don't do anything. Or get someone really good to help you!
Edit: my fault. I have too many dark mode addons/stylesheets enabled at the same time.
Midnight lizard (chrome) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/midnight-lizard/pb... is a good extension that can create a dark theme by changing the contrast & things like that. It does it in a way that the same theme will work on a lot of sites. They do have more dark (& light) themes on their site & you can create your own by entering a few colors & it will create a theme based on that. Stylus is good (NOT stylish), but Midnight lizard creates themes in a way that are compatible with a lot more sites that Stylus.
None of the extensions I've tested can match the dead simple CSS override I used in qutebrowser.
old.reddit.com comments are mostly unreadable, and it cripples gmail, but I've learned to take advantage of Options-Shift-D to flip it on and off when needed.
It's now part of my web browsing workflow.
Edit:
To clarify what I mean is maybe toggling which style sheet HN gives you in settings would be ideal for all. Web standards are nice but they dont help in the minimalist ideals of HN too much.
https://caniuse.com/#search=css%20variables
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44271920/css-variables-w...
Could you imagine if we entrusted every website to independently implement scroll bars and zoom? What a mess that'd be.
The color pallete of a page is important, and maintaining a consistent look and feel across normal and dark mode can only be done reliably by each website's designer.
So I guess we need both the ability to have the browser auto-calculate a default dark mode, and a way for aestetically-conscious web designers to override it, and that's what we're moving towards.
In fact it's already in chrome on android, no work needs to be done (other than enabling it). Here's an image gallery guide I made: https://imgur.com/a/njNTO6T
This is the right approach, it should be solved at the browser level. In fact, it already is.
The only responsibility of web developers should be to not go out of their way and do silly things that break this.
High contrast is very useful for people with visual difficulties, but might even be counter-productive for certain types of eye strain.
I'm under the impression people asking for dark mode are looking for something that will emit less light off their screens, not necessarily make it look nore contrast-y, and the two are more often than not opposite.