Ask HN: Is Dark Mode ever coming to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706570

by unkeen • 2 years ago

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It's been more than four years since Dark Mode was last proposed. I wonder if it will ever happen? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966

mtmail• 2 years ago

I doubt it, I haven't seen any noticeable CSS changes in ages. If I recall Ycombinator had an open job for a sysadmin position recently, if that is filled than at least it will be two people maintaining. (https://www.ycombinator.com/people still only lists one person).

jethronethro• 2 years ago

If it hasn't happened by now, I doubt it will. Would nice to be proven wrong, though. But as I've pointed out in the past, I doubt YC puts a ton of human resources into HN. And I wouldn't be surprised if making incremental changes like adding dark mode is high on the list of things to do.

helph67• 2 years ago

Have been using HN Enhance extension in FF for years and recommend it!

solardev• 2 years ago

I think the philosophy of the site is to keep it barebones and traditional, to appease the purists. But there's an API and many community-made frontends, either in mobile app form or as alternative web services. On Android I use Harmonic, for example, which has a dark mode and much better usability across the board. The one thing it lacks is good replies management, though.

giantg2• 2 years ago

This comes up a lot. Aren't there browser plug-ins that will convert most sites to darkmode?

dontdoxxme• 2 years ago

Or invert your screen.

HenryBemis• 2 years ago

I tried inverting my PC screen, but having it upside-down hurts my neck after a while. Got any other suggestions?

switch007• 2 years ago

Options:

- https://hn.premii.com/#/options/appearance

- Darkreader browser addon

- Vivaldi on Android can do dark mode natively

- Android/iOS can do screen colour inversion

joshstrange• 2 years ago

HN doesn’t make changes like this. Use one of the many styling extensions to accomplish this instead. On a site like HN it’s very easy to theme it because the markup almost never changes (last 2 changes I remember were unvote/undone and collapsing threads) so it’s not like you have to constantly update your theme.

bazil376• 2 years ago

They’re still using tables for layouts so

Ask HN: Is Dark Mode ever coming to HN?

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