Decides to try a trendy new open source text editor

It launches in dark mode with tiny font sizes because the devs are obviously all teenagers with perfect vision and no astigmatism

Change the font size. Seems to work

Change to light mode. Seems to work

Touch another setting. App immediately switches back to dark mode and default font size and stays there

Coolcoolcool. I don't actually need to be able to read the fucking text to work on it, right?

Dark mode isn't the default in OSes for a reason folks. It's one of those accessibility aids that's grossly inaccessible to a ton of people.

Respect the OS settings if you're making an app!!!!!!!

If a user has chosen light mode and reduced motion, don't fucking launch with dark mode and swishy animations!

Don't be an asshole!

Too many devs are being absolute assholes!

@baldur
When I started in computing, all screens were "Dark Mode" (mostly green on black VDUs).

It was a readability revolution for most of us when modern screens appeared which supported 'paper-white' (black-on-white) screens. These worked well for the last couple of decades(?).

I'm still astonished that anybody wants to go back to the dark mode.

#Accessibility #DarkMode #LightMode

@tpuddle @baldur

Dark mode causes more eye strain and lower retention of what’s read. But “looks so cool”.

@godofbiscuits
I have light-on-dark terminals and dark-on-light for browsing, word processing etc. I wonder if that's just habit, or if it depends on what exactly it is ones doing / reading?
@tpuddle @baldur
@srtcd424 @tpuddle @baldur I have my terminal window set to green text on dark background, because I’m old and that’s what we had way back when, but even then the contrast is very low, and the dark background is actually grey, translucent and blurred.