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Comment by justinator | Hacker News Reader

Oofta. Is anyone having trouble with white text on black background? That was a design anti pattern that I thought died out in the early 2,000's.

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How’s that an anti-pattern? With dark mode, it’s more in style than ever now.

It's an accessibility problem, especially for people (like me) who have astigmatism. But y'all don't look away from white text on black background to a bright light source (like a page of black text on a white background) and get a "burned in" impression of the previous page in your vision? Lucky you.

Dark mode is fine, please let the user choose to have dark mode when she wants to.

I wish HN had a dark mode option.

Whip up some css to your liking and inject it into hn's HTML - there's lots of examples of people doing things like that.

I only browse it on Safari in iOS when I am wasting time.

Out of sheer curiosity, is it just the white on black and would a "softer" light-grey on dark-grey be better for you? Or just generally light on dark?

The problem in general is the stark contrast between white and black. My editor is set with a grey background with grey text (or low chroma colors), and it works great.

This is called "dark mode" nowadays, and it's a feature.

Same for me. It produces some glare for me and I use dark mode almost everywhere.

I also don't like the huge font. Looks almost what I'd expect an h2 to look like.

There IS also a difference (as well) between Dark Mode and pure white text (or close to it) on pure black background. Usually a Dark Mode will have the contrast be slightly less (both text and bg are grays).

Sorry to point this out, but it IS a UI design site, and the person is griping about the minutia problems of an Apple device, so: fair game.

I actually prefer it. It's easier on my eyes.

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