The fetish modern Internet users have with “dark mode” has to stop, as does the rhetoric they typically use to advance their arguments, stuff like:
blasts my eyeballs with full-beam daylight.
or
the light of a thousand suns
Give me a break. If normal mode bothers you so much, it says one thing: your ambient lighting is crap . That will kill your eyesight and no, dark mode won’t save you. Fix your lighting instead of bullying the rest of the Internet into eyesight-damaging practices.
Update, 2025-12-19
I received a comment about this post where someone apparently was offended enough by my incendiary opinion to send me a private nastygram (though rightfully pointing out that in my previous post I was advocating for being “more positive, more propositive, and inclusive”). This actually made me feel bad enough that I took this post down. I don’t want to be a meanie.
Then I happened upon my site’s metrics and lo and behold, turns out somehow this article made it all the way to hackernews - I bet that’s where someone decided to contact me directly, since apparently the toxic discussion in HN wasn’t enough for them to dump their hatred and entitlement over someone else’s opinions.
In light of that, I’ve decided to bring this post back. Enjoy!