Solarized

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2011–2022), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Solarized, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Dark themes have poor contrast and backgrounds too dark to read comfortably2022-12-11
Low contrast dark theme is too hard to read in bright environments2022-10-31
Everything has the same visual weight, so nothing stands out2022-10-31
Cursor is invisible, so user can't tell where they're about to type2011-12-20
Colors turn all blue and become unusable in urxvt, xterm and emacs2011-04-06