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Comment by vesche | Hacker News Reader

I use Stylus and this stylesheet: https://userstyles.org/styles/22794/a-dark-hacker-news

Works great for me. I use dark themes via Stylus for most of the common websites I visit like HN, GitHub, StackOverflow, etc. All other websites that cause me to squint I just toggle Dark Reader: https://darkreader.org/

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Dark reader works unreasonably well.it has done more than any other project to restore some degree of visual consistency to our computer screens in the age of web apps.

I tried it a while back in Firefox and after a a few days I noticed memory usage in Firefox was going way up and whenever I opened dev tools everthing would slow down drastically. Removed the addon and everything went back to normal.

Anyone getting these types of issues still? I would love to start using it again.

Definitely slower than something that has a pre-defined stylesheet, e.g. Stylus. Does occassionally cause graphical issues (say, below 0.05% of websites I visit, once a month?) that means I have to toggle it off for that site.

Still use it because the speed / memory different isn't noticeable on most modern laptops / desktops. Even my phone uses it now as it's quick enough with the 'dynamic' update they made (toggle onto it under the 'more' section)

I'm a happy Dark Reader user. The issue you experienced could be related to which type of ‘filter’ you used. The four different kinds, Filter, Filter+, Static and Dynamic approach re-theming in different ways that varies in resource use[1].

For example, Filter ”requires GPU resources”, while Filter+ “works poorly in Firefox”. Dynamic pays up-front on first pageload, but subsequent pageloads should be lean.

[1]: Theme generation modes, https://darkreader.org/help/en/#filter-settings

Dark Reader is great if you do not care about performance.

Performance has improved somewhat, at least using the dynamic mode. I think largely through more effective caching. I use it even on my phone these days.

which phone do you use it on? as ios browsers do not seem to support it?

It's supported on Firefox for Android. I use it on a two-year old OnePlus 7 Pro.

Won't work on iOS, only Android. Kiwi Browser is great, Chromium with extension support. Or Firefox on Android, also with extension support.

Here is mine: https://gist.github.com/jay-m-z/29c145ccd21f2b70f3cafd56c6cf...

Looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/d7PSU96

Based upon: https://userstyles.org/styles/166661/orb-s-dark-hacker-news-... with bunch of my own adjustments and improvements

Really nice, thank you

Cool browser!

Same here. I have been using Dracula theme for HN for over a year. Absolutely love it.

https://github.com/ale0sx/hackernews-dracula

Is that like GreaseMonkey ?

Yes, essentially yes. UserScripts used by GreaseMonkey are JavaScript. UserStyles in Stylus work analogously for CSS.

Understood. Thanks :)

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