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Inspired by [this](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/355203/what-happened-to-the-surgical-team-pattern-from-the-mythical-man-month) post on Stack Exchange. I'm posting it as a text because I'm much more interested in how other lobsters answer the question rather than holding up...
I've seen several sites now that provide a light/dark mode that will change the background from e.g. white to black respectively, and alter the foreground text and other colours to match.
Would it be good to add this kind of feature to lobste.rs?
It's not just a black background, but the style actually is nice. Grey text, dark background, and for most sites it just fits.
Even my own website where I just did a full redesign of the layout, it looks very nice. If I had a few free hours, I'd implement it on my own site, it looks so well.
The idea of a dark mode for lobsters has been brought up in the past:
- https://lobste.rs/s/om839j/dark_light_mode
- https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/637
- https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/404
The recommended solution has generally been to use a user style. That's a gre...
Ideally with automatic switching using prefers-color-scheme media feature.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme
It would be great is Lobsters supported “prefers-color-scheme: dark“. Is there a reason why this isn’t used? It’s such a simple thing to add.
Hi folks,
Lobsters now respects your UI's dark mode setting. Typically your browser [chooses](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme) based on your OS/GUI layer ([Gnome](https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2236/night-theme-switcher/), [MacOS](https://devel...