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Dark or Light ?

  • Dark

    Votes: 809 74.6%
  • Light

    Votes: 269 24.8%
  • A Custom version

    Votes: 6 0.6%

  • Total voters
    1,084

Ploid 6.0

Member
Oct 25, 2017
12,440
I don't even like webpages that are too bright and try to get out of them as fast as possible. Usually the only ones I need to visit are my ISP, and Amazon/newegg, and when I go to those I already know exactly what I'm looking for.
 

Tuorom

Member
Oct 30, 2017
10,925
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SunBroDave

Member
Oct 25, 2017
13,166
I'm convinced that the Light theme exists solely to make the user immediately aware when they've been signed out.
 

DarkChronic

Member
Oct 27, 2017
5,040
Light mode for sure. I feel that it does a better job of separating posts. Everything kind of blends together in a displeasing way in dark mode.
 

HorseFD

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,025
Melbourne
I can't answer your poll because I use both.

Day time: light mode
NIght time: Light mode burns the retinas out of my eyes so I use dark mode
 

Quinton

Specialist at TheGamer / Reviewer at RPG Site
Verified
Oct 25, 2017
17,291
Midgar, With Love
Evidently, we are indeed the minority on this front. But I'll rock the light theme forever. I'm not a big fan of darker UIs.
 

AlteredBeast

Don't Watch the Tape!
Member
Oct 27, 2017
4,768
I've always associated dark theme of anything to be for 2Edgy4Me types, since those were the only people using those themes on forums back in the day of custom themes.

I like the look of light theme as well
 

Cheesebu

Wrong About Cheese
Member
Sep 21, 2020
6,177
like 3 or 4 years ago, we sent out slack invites.
It's basically saying "That's so design" when you like the design of something.

I'm going to start using the word adjective to describe things I like, please let everyone know this is now canon 😃. Light theme is kinda adjective, but not nearly as adjective as dark theme. Now that shit is adjective af.

Rant over. 😂
 
Oct 29, 2017
3,101
Florida
Light all the way baby.

With the exceptions of Discord (who has/had an utterly terrible light theme) and YouTube/other video sites (where I think having the page itself being dark makes sense so it doesn't distract from the video I'm watching), I only use light themes because dark themes genuinely hurt my eyes to use most of the time.
 

Jeronimo

Member
Nov 16, 2017
2,377
I got used to using dark mode to help save battery, and since I primarily just browse on my phone that's what I use everywhere.
 

Poltergust

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,833
Orlando, FL
Dark
100 post per page
+125 zoom
It's the only way to fly
Same here.

I honestly annoys me when people link to a post and the page number corresponds to 50 ppp, meaning I get linked to the wrong post (or none at all if the post is in the latter half of any given thread). Why not just post the link to the post that doesn't incorporate the page number?

Let's use this post here as an example. Why would you link using this:

www.resetera.com

It has occured to me that I may be the minority when using Light ERA. Am I wrong??

I like both modes but I do mostly use Dark Mode. If there were a setting to just follow my MacOS and iOS settings (which I have automatically switch at sunrise and sunset), I'd do it, but I'm usually just rolling in Dark Mode.

Instead of just linking this?

www.resetera.com

It has occured to me that I may be the minority when using Light ERA. Am I wrong??

I don't even like webpages that are too bright and try to get out of them as fast as possible. Usually the only ones I need to visit are my ISP, and Amazon/newegg, and when I go to those I already know exactly what I'm looking for.

For people with 100 ppp, the above links are functionally identical. For people with 50 ppp, only the second link will work properly for them because my page 2 is their page 3, so the first link is broken.
 

Siresly

Prophet of Regret
Member
Oct 27, 2017
6,584
Always dark whenever possible (except for some themes that just look bad) because light tends to blast your face with light and be potentially eye-stabby.
It's not great especially at night, and soon it'll be dark at like 4.
 

kidtamagotchi

Member
Oct 27, 2017
352
I use light mode for mostly everything. If I use too much stuff on dark mode, I get 'ghosting' (transparent after image) issues with my vision.