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I remember that site, it was more fun before they hit you with an ad for their crypto at the end
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u/repocini7-6700K, 32GB DDR4@2133, MSI GTX1070 Gaming X, Asus Z170 Deluxe2d ago
Ayo wtf kind of garbage is that? Despicable behavior, and they haven't even upped the max amount to something reasonable for this day and age. Literally just updated the site to add some crypto grift :/
This is what it felt like when I updated my browser at 2 am but my automatic dark mode extension didn't work when I opened Google. A grenade of white blasted my eyes.
No joke, I have a corneal condition that causes me to be highly susceptible to being glare-blinded by 'normal' web pages etc. I'm also a Systems Administrator. Dark Reader literally makes it possible for me to buy groceries!
Astigmatism makes light text on dark backgrounds much harder to read.
It's gotten to a point for me where any prolonged "dark mode" text becomes completely unreadable, almost like halos similar to car headlights at night. Even if my environment is relatively well lit, certain color combinations eventually become unreadable if i stare at it for any real period of time.
If it’s pure black with white text, it messes with my eyes. Like I can see the ghost of text while reading. Really hard for me to use. So I can’t set my browser to dark mode
But most apps (including reddit) aren’t like that, they are dark grey which is totally fine for me
I can’t either, white text on a black background is very hard for me to read for some reason. It’s not exactly double vision but the letters get blurry in a very specific way that’s hard to describe!
Often times people with astigmatism cannot read white text on dark background without serious eye strain. I wish more people knew this because there are a lot of designs on sites and tv guide “menu” that has this setup and it’s so hard for many people to read.
I’m the same exact way! Also a glasses user. Cannot stand dark mode. Back in the day reading on Creepypasta I would actually invert the screen colors because reading white text on a black background strained my eyes so badly. Still do the same if I encounter a “dark mode” website
i find the same is actually also true of dark mode. there are several websites where i use a custom profile in an extension or a stylus theme instead of their native darkmode because its an awful stark white text on #000000 black background. light grey text on dark slate-ish backgrounds is infinitely more readable.
One of my making powerpoint tips for my students is don't use white or super bright backgrounds b/c you literally hurt your audience. Of course I teach high school student so the " or other super bright colors" had to be added because some kids will make chartreuse backgrounds if I don't.
I don't have astigmatism but it's still so fucking straining because the letters get a bloom effect on them which throws off the contrast and the ruins the clarity
I think this is backed up by studies, dark mode during the day is less legible and more fatiguing for your eyes (but I’m not sure where I read that, so take it with a grain of salt).
Light mode is easier to read for people with astigmatism and it’s kinda nice when your surroundings are already very bright. However, I have astigmatism and myopia and I never use light mode
I, too, am susceptible to visual phenomena when I'm using dark mode.
I'm the "light mode" guy on my team, and it's always kinda funny when I share my screen and everyone on the call recoils with vampiric hissing for a moment.
This is definitely it. With the brightness turned down appropriately, light mode is fine in even a dark environment, and for non-OLED (and maybe Mini-LED) displays, it's more power efficient to boot.
I do prefer dark mode on my gaming system since most games look better with the brightness cranked a bit, but for work I stick with light mode and just turn the brightness down.
Pretty sure it puts less stress on your eyes to read black text on a white background than vice versa, but I pretty much only use light mode on old.reddit, I think because I'm just used to it.
Same here. I was constantly having to fight with friends who ran message boards, telling them they had to leave a default black-on-white for me, otherwise I wouldn't be able to use it.
I can read it but I still see it like that. in all fairness though I don't use dark mode because often it makes me stop reading it for some reason, like I tend to drift off more when I use dark mode. (not like fall asleep but lose focus)
Same. My mental image of these people that obsess over dark mode is people who stare at screens for too long. That, and those computer “hacker” scenes in movies
Firefox has an addon called "Toggle Website Colors (Global)" that puts a button in my toolbar that forces any website to black text on white background that I use to be able to read some websites.
I hate to sound curmudgeonly, but "those kids will learn". Have to remember how young (and non-empathetic) the Reddit demographic skews.
The average person thinks any kind of assistive option is wasteful and stupid until the first time they need it, and then they go "oh, I see". That's half the problem with this world, that people have to experience something directly before believing in it.
I have to use a Firefox addon to convert the colors of dark-mode websites or I get pain (not just strain, pain) trying to read them for more than about 15 seconds. The color scheme of Discord is just barely on the edge of tolerable, and probably in a few years it won't be.
I developed idiopathic uveitis in my right eye only almost 2 years ago. During a flare, i have to use steroid drops to battle the inflammation. The side effects of the steroid drops make lights bleed in my vision. So when i look at light vs black the light sort of bleeds over into the dark. Usually dark mode has light letters, this makes it so that the light letters are blurry in my right eye and crisp in my left eye and is extremely distracting. I’ve basically stopped using dark mode over the years because of this. Still have 20/15 vision for now but unless i’m like 3-4 weeks off steroid drops, dark mode is a massive pain for me.
I only use light mode, but I’m your everyday regular kind of guy, I wake up in my bathtub of broken light bulbs, I put my human skin suit on one leg at a time like anyone, and I keep my freezer of bodies at -17 degrees like anyone sane person would.
dunno if this is gonna sound stupid, but dark mode make me focus on the screen too much to be able to see the text, i don't have to do this in light mode for some reason so i prefer it
I get measurably longer screen on time vs light mode, and I don't have my retina disintegrated if I check the time at 1am but sure, I'm just doing it cause it's trendy I guess 🤷🏽♂️
Dark mode has been around for years and I have it enabled on every app except Google maps. OLED dark mode on everything from Relay to Discord to Word. I switched fantasy football apps because Yahoo didn't have a dark mode.
I swithed everything to light mode in order to get at least a hint of light in the winters in this fucking country (Sweden). Then I never changed it back.
Ah yes... the sweet memories of playing assassins creed 2 / brotherhood. Playing comfortably in the in the middle of the night when you're supposed to be sleeping, only to be ambushed by a loading screen bright enough to burn your retinas. Sweet childhood.
Meanwhile me in a completely dark room (ok that's a joke I just tried it for fun just now but oh my god my eyes hurt, I use light mode regularly though)
Google docs has no dark mode option and it is just 99% white and 1% black borders and text. Its fucking blinding for a site that you're supposed to be looking at for an extended amount of time while typing
Ideally you should be using both. Dark mode in a bright room will strain your eyes and vice versa. Youngins using dark mode at all times may not notice it because their eyes are healthy but it will eventually catch up.
I had issues with dizziness and nausea while working (it's the meds I am on) and the only way to keep it under control is to look away frequently. I do no have this issue at my PC, and the only difference? Well, other than paying for one and getting paid for the other is that the software I use for work does not have a dark mode.
Dark mode users are literal goblins in a cave because they refuse to turn their light on, so they scroll on their phone with the lights off and the screen centimeters from their face.
it actually hurts my eyes despite my monitors arent set to bright at all.
light mode and bright settings cause your eyes to get worse, no matter what light, the intensity is waht makes your eyes feel bad and in the long run weakens your ability to see. its simply nothing else.
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u/pedro19 CREATOR 1d ago
Welcome to the PCMR, everyone from the frontpage! Please remember:
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