Hello DarkReader my old friend…
Which you still need for mobile.
The Wikipedia app has had dark mode for a while. Plus dark mode in Firefox works fine with no extensions.
Dark Reader on Firefox mobile works well for me!
Nope, its available on mobile too. Just go to
Sidebar>Settings>Colour
(Options to choose from)
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Light
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Dark
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Automatic
Oh look at that. It was hiding from me.
Yeah but that requires cookies. Not everybody allows them. I block everything that isn’t a first party cookie, and set them to delete every time I close my browser.
To be fair though, “The website doesn’t remember my settings because I don’t let it,” isn’t really a problem the website can solve.
I just had a thought that I’d like to see a plugin that independently remembers whichever cookie-based settings you want it to on a per-site basis and then re-inserts those settings into fresh cookies whenever you visit using some sort of search & replace or markup interpeter. Basically a way to maintain personal control over what data cookies can hold.
They could solve it by not using tracking cookies so that I don’t have to do this in a futile attempt to protect my privacy.
maybe it’d be nice if we just had “config registers” alongside cookies that just allowed us to store a single bytes worth of information in it or something. Would be perfect for things like darkmode.
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Praise Cthulhu!
Finally I don’t need to have an account just to have dark mode
People were making accounts?!
Ive been using browser extensions.
It was an experimental gadget setting under your profile.
I’ve been using userstyles, but nothing seems to have worked as well as the built in feature for me.
democracy dies in dark mode
A long time coming, but because of their recent changes in the past couple of months if I have JS disabled on Wikipedia I either have an obnoxiously large blank margin on the right, or I get pop-up annoyed by this dark mode announcement with JS enabled and private tab browsing.
Yeah, I noticed that the JavaScript bloat is slowly taking over Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is such a beauty and I’m so glad and grateful it exists. Surely it’s not perfect, but it’s so inspiring and hopeful to see a collective effort be so successful. I sometimes wonder, what new projects we’ve seen since that are equally inspiring. The Fediverse certainly is beautiful but it’s also still a little bit fringe. I personally really like MusicBrainz, but that started 24 years ago What new collective projects has the internet brought us in recent years? And what collective projects could the future bring us?
my favorite thing about wikipedia is the information density, there are few things that match it, except for books, and those often cost money.
Wikipedia has needed a plugin to be usable for a very long time. That Plugin gives you dark mode, on top of a bunch of other necessary features.
Your definition of necessary and what most people consider the word necessary to mean seem to contradict each other. Here you seem to mean it as ‘nice to have’ whereas the actual definition is ‘required to be done, achieved or present; needed; essential’
:p
The year is 2024, hacker news stands strong as only remaining website to not offer darkmode.
Thou art forbidden to peruse our content in the dead of night; verily, our content is for the light of day alone.
Have you heard of lightbulbs?
GG
“Getting paid is weird and sometimes hard” Wtf…
spoken by a true philosophy major
Just hacker things
Get on my level.
How long were you searching for “worse than Comic Sans” before you landed on that one?
That purp though, fully behind it
I believe it’s a more dyslexia friendly font
I take it back @fossilesque@mander.xyz !!
Open Dyslexic browser extension and the Dracula theme! :) I am not Dyslexic but I find it helps when I am tired.
You know what also helps when you’re tired? Sleep.
Yeah they usually have that extra heavy weight on parts of some characters, especially curves around the bottom
Gotta get Hack, its an HN client/front-end. Beautiful and has all that stuff, otherwise the website is very non-addicting to me, I’ll give them that.
Thanks, I ended up getting harmonic. Seems to do the job. It’s baffling that hacker news is like that
It doesn’t seem to work on the German Wikipedia. Super weird decision to tie display settings to a language.
It does not work with spanish either
Edit: moreover, if you configure it by accessing an english article and then switch languages, darkess mode goes off
IIRC the wikipedia for each language is pseudo independent. This feature will eventually make it to all, I hope.
Did someone use digital blotting paper on the Moon article?
“One who knows nothing can understand nothing”
–Riku who is Ansem who is not Ansem who is Xehanort
2 down, 14 more to go. Nice.
Right? We are going to do all of the basic 16 terminal colors, right?
Powers of 2 are very powerful. They can certainly build elaborate and understandable stories.
Powers of 3 are far more cohesive, though.
Wiki “Darkmode” which can seeming be bought by anyone with money, to remove content makes WIKI a total lie.
They do not deserve or will earn our money. They are scammers and cheaters.
HACK THE PLANET - FUCK THE LIARS.
I’m confused about what you’re referring to. I’m reading this as people being able to pay for dark mode which somehow allows them to remove content? Maybe this is because I just woke up but I’m curious what you mean.
Long awake, didn’t get a thing
i’m moderately awake and this makes equally little sense to me.
Dark mode, night mode, light-on-dark design, or whatever you want to call the version of computer content that doesn’t feel blindingly bright at night…
Don’t wanna be that guy, but these template news-article openings always make my brain hurt. Come on, as if everyone has ever called it anything else than “Dark mode”.
