*sadly goes to reset the counter to 0 on the "days since I saw someone shit on the existence of light themes" sign*
I think on average I see this like once a week.
I cannot see dark themes at all. And it's a hell of a thing to see this hostility not just to a software option but to my own existence and qualities as a person who uses this option. Like I've seen people say you have to be a psychopath to use light theme, which is an awesome way to double up on the ableism!
Something else about light themes I don't think I've seen in so many words:
I strongly suspect most apps these days are made for dark theme, in dark theme, by people who only like dark theme. The light theme sometimes doesn't work great, or it feels grudgingly implemented, half-assed.
The dark themes you see probably are optimized by people who care about them but don't think that means the light ones are. They aren't necessarily ideal for people who need light themes; this is just all we get.
Dark mode is ubiquitous. It's the default on almost every program.
And I can't see text on it at all, I struggle to do so even long enough to switch to light mode.
I despair of the myths around its (objective, universal) superiority.
And yet, for all my frustration with it, it's never occurred to me to hurl weird insults at all dark mode users as individuals.
I'm not even mad, it's just very odd to see, at regular intervals, the vitriol leveled at everyone who uses light mode.
...why?
@bright_helpings I suspect it's a kneejerk response - there seems to be something neurotype-related behind this accessibility need (for both light-on-dark and dark-on-light cases!), and for a *long* time, the light-on-dark folks weren't catered to at all.
So a culture developed around the stuff that *does* have dark mode, as did a community of folks *making* stuff dark mode... and some subset of that is where the vitriol seems to come from now.
