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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

pivot to ai now has working dark mode! all praise to the illustrious @[email protected]

i still hate dark mode, but others fucking love it so

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Awful.systems defaults to dark mode.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

like a good developer, I made my personal preference the default (and I think when we started there were major issues with switching themes?)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

booooo should be my personal preference (light)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

brb banning David from the awful.systems plugin repo, modifying the login page so everyone has to swear they don’t know him, and launching a lawsuit for (throws a dart at a dartboard) uhh shoplifting, he shoplifted my website

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

YOU ~wouldn’t~

shoplift a ~WEBSITE~

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

imma fuckin do it again

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Common mistake, but David is from the UK. He was actually just looking online for ways to improve wheelchair accessibility in a multistory house. On a lift-shopping website.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isnt he a goth? Dont think he needs more lifts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't a goth prefer heavy mode?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

and now that damn jingle is playing in my head at early o’ clock

awful.systems: where the abyss delivers, always

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The only reason I use dark mode is because my phone is OLED so it uses less power. Otherwise I go for light.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

This is what the BDFL model is all about.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank for letting me know there are other people indifferent to dark mode. Sometimes I feel I am the only one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i have already had whiny shits demand that I (a) set dark mode default (b) remove the switch

default is currently set to whatever your browser thinks is the default and you can switch it otherwise

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

God forbid you go out of your way to do something nice without some most entitled asshole in the world giving you shit for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this is the best default imo

the only times I dislike it are when the site's dark mode implementation is trash. I occasionally get to notice these, because their implementation is such way that dark reader activates (time trigger), I suddenly get flashblind on some site because dark reader flips their thing to eye-stabbing light colours

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

it's a little magical and not entirely reliable so i'm not a fan, but the switch is there