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Considering its branding is entirely centered on late night socialization, I feel low-contrast dark mode is precisely the aesthetic that fits its identity.
Your dark mode choice for your late night chat is appropriate, and good branding. If someone’s technically literate enough to engage with an SSH-based social network, then they should be capable of injecting user scripts, custom CSS, and/or deploying assistive browser extensions, OS settings, and screen readers.
If this were a website about cataract treatments or a Metamucil landing page, then it would be a bad design.
At what point is it enough? If they use high contrast, large fonts, and translations for every language—including Swahili’s default Kiunjuga dialect, but fail to include the Kimvita, Kiamu, Kingwana, Chimiini, Bajuni, AND Comorian dialects, will they be accosted for saying “f off” to everyone speaking Swahili outside of Zanzibar?
It’s sadly getting more difficult to surface these kinds of examples, as we’re seeing a lot of lowest common denominators and slop-py channels run by people who only want to be YouTube content mills, rather than people who have expertise to share and who learned to leverage YouTube as a means to those ends.
This is precisely the problem with the entire notion of putting advertising into these models. You’ll never really know.
So never modified at all, even if plainly contradictory and/or ethically and morally compromised?
Yesterday’s 50-mile line of planes coming to Oshkosh is something to behold: https://youtu.be/9IHbO0tzpMc