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You can choose light/dark/auto mode in your GH settings https://github.com/settings/appearance

Is it just me or is the dark mode too dark? My eyes are having a hard time finding things.

Yes. It is definitely not the Dark in macOS which is more like Dark Grey and this is closer to Black.

Just using black often feels like enabling accessibility features for contrast (as iOS has one) but at first glance I feel like the GH version is just fine for me due to the usage of grey instead of white for outlines and fonts.

Feels so much better on the eyes.

yep, i'm usually into dark mode but this one wasn't really working for my eyes right off the bat

Me too. It a dark and shiny.

Whenever I see something like this I always wonder how we came to allow website authors to dictate how their content is displayed on other people's computers. I know I can use greasemonkey or whatever to hack something together (or stick to lynx), but why don't websites generally just deliver text and leave the decision of how to render it up to me?

> I always wonder how we came to allow website authors to dictate how their content is displayed on other people's computers.

Um... because it is their website?

> why don't websites generally just deliver text and leave the decision of how to render it up to me?

Because the general public wants to go to a website and for it to look good immediately without any configuration.

> Um... because it is their website?

And therefore they should control how your web browser works on your computer? I don't think so.

Remember the scourge of pop-up windows? Alert loops? Auto-playing sound and video? Obnoxious flash animations? Intrusive tracking? Megabytes of adtech attached to 3 kilobytes of text? No need to accept obnoxious, battery-draining, data-eating garbage if you don't need or want it.

In the 90s I used to have my browser override all colors. I used to get so mad when sites would make their menus be images.

I often end up at GitHub while not logged in so I am hoping they change the default setting to “use system mode”. That way, at least it will probably match what I currently have set on my computer even if I’m not logging in.

Really cool to see github implementing this and hyping it up with a nice video :)

I love it, thank you GitHub engineers who worked on this!

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