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Five years of React Native at Shopify

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324 points onnnon | 3 comments | 13 Jan 25 22:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mcsniff ◴[16 Jan 25 23:34 UTC] No.42732321[source]▶
Heh. Still no dark mode, it's almost as embarrassing as HN not having a dark mode -- yeah I said it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34263628

Will another 10 years go by and there still won't be a dark mode for the app?

As someone who uses the mobile app basically every day, it is absolutely one of the things that bothers me, every single time I use it. That's not a good thing.

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1. danpalmer ◴[16 Jan 25 23:47 UTC] No.42732431[source]▶
It's constantly surprising to me that this one aspect of software appearance is a hill that the industry has collectively decided to die on.

We can't agree to use colours that are unambiguous for colourblind folks, we can't agree to use sufficient contrast in our UIs, we can't agree to use big enough touch targets, most companies are truly awful at accessibility... and yet everyone wants dark mode, and most companies implement it. How much time have we lost as an industry making interfaces harder to read?

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2. consumer451 ◴[17 Jan 25 04:48 UTC] No.42734198[source]▶
Dark mode is an accessibility feature for myself, and many others I would imagine.

Calling it dark mode might not be ideal though. We should probably call it something like system theme awareness, or anything that doesn’t make the reader to think “gee, that’s not the theme I like.”

Prefers-color-scheme exists. It’s not that hard.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

3. wiseowise ◴[17 Jan 25 12:42 UTC] No.42736936[source]▶
Before installing Noir on iOS, I always appreciated opening HN, or any website without dark mode, and feeling my eyes melting even on lowest brightness setting. Great and easy to read! Thanks for keeping my eyes I check!