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Discussion on: Light Mode or Dark Mode, which do you prefer?

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Sylvie Fiquet

In general I don't like dark backgrounds with light writing, the contrast is too strong for me, it causes the text to be surrounded by a shiny halo so it's hard to read.

In some cases it's completely unreadable. I once followed a link to a tech blog post written in bright green on a black background, I couldn't leave the page fast enough.

I do get the argument about eye fatigue and eventually I switched to a dark theme on my IDE. It took me a while to find a suitable one though, most have too much contrast.

Similarly I tried DEV's themes and, nope, I'll stick to the light theme, thank you very much.

What you do is up to you but if you impose dark mode on everybody you will lose users.