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The best dark mode toggle is probably none (lea.verou.me)
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Yes. Toggles are unnecessary, a phenomenon of weird nerds. Just match the system settings and you're fine.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Do you mean altogether unnecessary, or unnecessary as a persistent toggle on the main screen?

    If you're talking about the former I'd disagree, easiest way to explain is with my own real-world example.

    I put basically everything in dark mode, but our ticketing system's website I put in light mode (even though they have a dark mode) because their dark mode looks like shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    I think the better alternative would be for browsers to have some kind of per-site override instead of relying on every single site building the same system and putting the option in a different place.

    If a setting is universally supported by all sites (which dark mode should be, along with the other common accessibility flags), it shouldn't be something that the site needs to control.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Maybe there's a case to be made for a theme setting on a screen somewhere. Or as others have said, this could be set at the browser level per site.

    I just think having a toggle up in the header is sort of a UX waste.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    our ticketing system’s website I put in light mode (even though they have a dark mode) because their dark mode looks like shit.

    Once, a client asked me to put a spinner on a page that was slow to load. I made the underlying SQL query 2000 times faster instead.

    A toggle is not the best solution to your problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    A toggle is not the best solution to your problem.

    100% correct. Unfortunately I'm far more likely to have access to a toggle than for them to make their dark mode nice.

    E.g. I've asked them to add more languages to the code button in their WYSIWYG editor for replying to tickets. I don't use/do any web stuff but I had figured out that they use Froala, and Froala uses prism.js. I asked them to include 5 more languages (bash/sh/shell, batch, ini, json, Powershell) and requested that the list be sorted alphabetically, and told them it should just be a matter of changing the Froala codeSnippetLanguage plugin option. I haven't even had a reply in 5 months.

    I also spent some time trying to modify the WYSIWYG editor options myself using a userscript but didn't get anywhere useful.

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