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[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Waddaya mean crusade? Have you accidentally seen one of my other tirades?

Anyway:

  1. I dislike change. I know it's not a good argument, but I don't like change.
  2. I don't have a lot against dark mode, on a phone. But...
  3. Running an IDE or word processor in dark mode screams unprofessional to me. I work in a well lit office environment, during the day. In a bright office I struggle reading in dark mode.
  4. Using dark mode because you "don't want to have your eyes scorched", is the argument of a hobbyist, working in their bedroom.
  5. I like to view my end product on screen. I'm not printing documents in dark mode, and presentations are more easily viewable with a light background.

It's not an argument for or against dark mode, but dark mode seems like that time, back in the 90s, when people insisted on using a blue background for word processing. We're just going in circles on this.

[-] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

I sometimes do emacs over a terminal because ofc, but some of the font colors are hard to see in dark mode.

[-] rustyj@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I was having legitimate eye strain issues before using dark mode in more places. I also only have vision in one eye, so that factor is in the mix. Anyhow, for me, dark mode is more of an accessibility tool, not "some hobbyist thing".

[-] tunetardis@piefed.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

Dark mode to me harkens back to the days of terminals and mainframes. Light mode was popularized by the likes of Apple who believed in the wysiwyg philosophy. A document on screen should resemble its counterpart on paper.

But dark does seem to be in vogue once again. Something I did not see coming, much like how vinyl came back—which also tends to be a dark medium now that I think of it, though I can't think of any reason it really needs to be? Hmm…

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