Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Websites with dark themes
Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2015–2021), in 3 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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High-contrast dark theme causes eye strain, forcing restylingUnreviewed
20152026- Forced dark theme only when browser is dark; light theme requires changing browser settings2021-08-23
- Light-on-dark sites are hard to read, forcing users into reader mode or color inversion2020-10-31
- High-contrast dark theme causes eye strain, so user must restyle sites2015-07-24
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.