Dark mode would be better if... (especially in dev.to)

• Device-specific (rather than user-specific)
• Not really dark, more like sepia or dark-brown (I love awsm.css on this)
• Powered by lightness measurement sometimes, rather than fixed colors
• Community themes

Comments

[Waylon Walker]

Stylus chrome extension? I think there are communities of site modders out there within plugins like that.

I use stylus to theme jupyterlab instances.

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

A point is browser extension is much harder to do on mobile.

[Alain Van Hout]

I wouldn't be a fan of device-specific dark mode, since it would take away the choice to not use dark mode.

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

There should be a choice whether to make it device specific or not.

I don't use dark mode on mobile, but I do on desktop.

[RedCreator37]

Not really dark, more like sepia or dark-brown (I love awsm.css on this)

I'm not a fan of this, I don't use StackOverflow's dark mode because of this. I know it's just a personal preference, but I like the more dark blue-ish dark mode.

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

It's ok to have what you like, but it is bad to assume that people only have two preferences - sheer black and sheer white.

Something coolers-ish would be nice.

[Hanna]

There is the night theme which isn't either sheer white or sheer black

[Nathan Kallman]

If you want a new theme on dev.to ... open a PR with a new theme: github.com/forem/forem/blob/a1b670...

(I'm sure there's other changes needed as well to make it selectable etc. besides just copying a current theme style sheet and editing it)