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Website theme settings
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Website theme settings, 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 4 complaints
- Setting a site to light mode permanently only works in the evening, since the auto option gets saved during the day2026-08-14
- No visible indication when text is selected in dark mode2026-04-03
- No obvious way to switch dark page to light mode, forcing workarounds2026-03-12
- Must repeatedly reset each site's theme setting instead of following system mode2025-02-01