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Re:Nim 1.2 by treeform on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:40PM (#22772001)
I feel like dark mode is a sign that people care. I think it's a user feature that is easy to do, but not done often. Mostly done by people who care. It brings so much polish to the experience.
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Re:Nim 1.2 by rattray on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:16PM (#22774470)
It's not necessarily _that_ easy to do, especially depending on how your CSS was implemented (eg; do you use variables for all your colors, and do they have a sane, consistent, reversible brightness scale?)

However, I certainly agree with your "you do this because you _care_" sentiment.

Source: implemented dark mode for an application where the "sane css colors using variables" property was true.

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Re:Nim 1.2 by leadingthenet on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:04PM (#22772282)
It can be done poorly as well, like in Facebook / Google apps on Apple devices. They feel very unintegrated into the rest of the OS.
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Re:Nim 1.2 by qqssccfftt on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:05PM (#22775363)
What if I care specficially not to add a dark mode?
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Re:Nim 1.2 by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:56PM (#22775574)
Why exactly would caring about users lead you to omit something that makes things nicer for them?
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Re:Nim 1.2 by SaxonRobber on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:52PM (#22782185)
Maybe the same reason why others choose to omit light modes, despite that being my preference.
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