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Is there a light mode option for the site? Or is iOS just not selecting it for some reason?

My astigmatism makes reading dark UIs migraine inducing, so as cool as this sounds I unfortunately can’t read more about it without triggering a migraine. x_x

(Maybe still default to the dark UI, but if the user has light mode enabled it uses a light UI?)

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Oh, so that's what makes dark themes so hard to read for me. Unfortunately there's no easy way out for me, since my eyes are photosensitive due to a separate complication. Between a rock and a hard place :p

I'm with you in the sense that I just learned through these posts that astigmatism and website dark modes don't go well together.

I wonder if lighter colors and soft grey palettes would work for your case. have you experimented with colors that are easier on your eyes, given your complications?

I haven't actually. I always just used dark mode and assumed the additional difficulty was a drawback everyone experienced and learned to live with it. Now that I know that's not the case I'll see if I can find a color scheme that works well, like you suggested :)

Isn’t ‘photosensitive’ what all eyes are? ;)

Anyway, +1 for astigmatism and extreme sensitivity to glare. The rise of dark themes is something of a curse for my ability to interact with interfaces these days.

I don't like reading pages with dark background either. I just do ctrl+A on such pages so that the text background becomes blue, making it a little better to read.

This is a good workaround! Thanks for suggesting it.

on Firefox, you can remove all page styling too. I don't know how to do it on the hamburger menu, but do Alt-V, Page Style, No Style

There is also the reader mode but it doesn't work on all pages.

I also have astigmatism which makes all dark mode websites and apps difficult to read. As "cool" as this trend and previously "hacker" color scheme has gotten, don't remove light modes!

It's not just "cool" "hacker" color, some people actually have different eyes than you and now you know how they feel on light mode.

Sorry about that. Not at the moment, but we'll consider adding a light mode for both the website and the app.

Thank you for the response. :)

I’m used to getting “most of our users don’t have an issue, so we don’t care” responses (Robinhood did this for a while before they finally added a toggle, and Spotify straight up doesn’t care), so having a company actually note they’ll look into doing it if possible is really appreciated by me.

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