Do not start a headline with “Darkness reigns over Wikipedia”!!!
What’s wrong with Darkness?
Wikipedia is about to become a really weird place…
Yes. Because so many people seem to have changed their belief systems.
Naturalism is essentially based on the strict adherence to Newton’s laws, which were shown to be slightly wrong in some cases.
whut
What part do you want me to repeat or explain differently?
No I just don’t get what any of that has to do with a joke about Wikipedia becoming weird because it’s being run by a crazy anime girl from Konosuba, that’s all…
Jokes are often about word associations and patterns.
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.
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.
Have you heard of lightbulbs?
The Washington Post: “Democracy dies in darkness”
Wikipedia: “Knowledge that is shared in torchlight is fucking awesome”
Democracy dies in darkness
From what I’ve seen, it dies in plain sight to standing ovations
And memes, lots of memes.
I can’t be the only one who doesn’t see well with dark mode.
You’re not, but having both is awesoooooome!
At last, I won’t get blinded whenever I open Wikipedia
These are dark times
Indeed.
No, thats the job hunting website. Wikipedia is the one anyone can edit historical facts.
(Which is apparently a workspace AI company)
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”.
All jokes aside, I might imagine it wasn’t all easy to do it correctly. Great job!
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.
Finally the l33t hax0rz from Anonymous can browse Wikipedia in peace
Isn’t this like one of the signs of the end times?
Or the start of a new age of enlightment and the spread of ideas online with ease.
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.
If you are on desktop and you aren’t sure how it works, try out this Wiki page and in the top right corner you can see an “eyeglasses” looking icon. Click that and set it to Automatic or Dark.
Hello DarkReader my old friend…
Which you still need for mobile. Edit: Nope.The Wikipedia app has had dark mode for a while. Plus dark mode in Firefox works fine with no extensions.
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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Dark Reader on Firefox mobile works well for me!