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.
@MishaVanMollusq @tpuddle @baldur
It's implied that idiomatic cases exist. Duh.
Tell *MY* migraine brain to look at dark mode for more than 10 seconds and all i'll see is after images of lines for the next 10 minutes.
@MishaVanMollusq @tpuddle @baldur I don’t have my screens very bright at all, but they’re all still white background with black letters. Little glowy letters stab at my eyes no matter the brightness levels.
I have intermittent photophobia, photophobia, and the very trippy Alice in wonderland type visual distortions. (Things get larger and larger but never feel like they’re moving or changing position)
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