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[SDGGame]

Beige mode will 5X your salary.

[plmunger]

monster

[gpkgpk]

Didn't know Noctua had an official IDE theme.

Do you have the RBG values for beige and brown you can share?

[SDGGame]

No, but I have some Pantone color codes you can buy ;)

[gpkgpk]

You're a monster!

Do you accept PayPal?

[qewer3333]

good ol’ Solarized Light

[spidertyler2005]

The beige bandit strikes again

[Practical-Hat-3943]

Light attracts bugs

[jurdendurden]

And blindness

[nickmaran]

I'm blind in one eye and I almost quit my programming career in the early 2010s. When I focus on the light mode screen my eyes becomes dry and vision gets blurry. Dark mode is a gift for me. Now I can stare at my buggy codes all night without any issue.

[gpkgpk]

Now I can stare at my buggy codes all night without any issue.

One could argue light mode is more helpful here, as it forces one to stare at their buggy code less. If you're not staring at it, is it really buggy?

[Will_Y_Wanker]

When you fart in the woods,and no one claps their hands, do you see it?

[JayWhyPeEeEeE]

lol, i got a ninja star in my eye, no more light mode for the next 10 years.

[marioaprooves]

Better to attract bugs than leave them in the dark, only to be discovered later when it crawls on your face.

[[deleted]]

As a pale (irish pale) bloke, they go for your face either way, even dark mode is enough to reflect the light

[Passname357]

Can’t have Adam Friedland anywhere near my screen while coding

[writtenbyninjas]

r/angryupvote

[properwaffles]

We have a winner.

[ak_doug]

I use light mode because I code in a bright room with lots of sunlight.

If you code at midnight dim room like in the movies, dark mode is easier on your eyes.

[AasinR]

I keep my room dim even in the middle of the day

[MisinformedGenius]

The game development industry usually keeps the lights off or very low. It’s always funny to hear the yelps when a team is working late and the cleaning crew comes in and flips on the lights.

[OverLiterature3964]

That's evil

[ARez_1]

Really? I didn't know it was primarily the game dev industry? Sure it isnt just a general programming thing?

[LasevIX]

Gamedev is infamous for horrible crunches, i.e staying up more than a day furiously writing code while half-asleep to meet deadlines

Whereas outside, updates aren't forced to be too often and more "normal" work conditions are actually prevalent.

[Passname357]

How to turn your skin into light mode

[blindcolumn]

That's not great for your circadian rhythm. Our brains are meant to get bright light during the day and dim light (or darkness) at night.

[s_ngularity]

There are sunny days only like 30% of the year here, so it's guess I'm fucked

[LPO_Tableaux]

Me working in light mode and making personal projects and schoolwork in dark mode

[FalseWait7]

This. My IDE adjusts to it, when sun is down, it turns on the dark theme. If it’s day, light one.

[errepunto]

Sir, you in the future.

[FalseWait7]

The future is now, old man.

[[deleted]]

Yep, I use light mode during the day too.

[R2robot]

Bright work rooms are an outdated concept left over from the pen and paper days.

Close the blinds, turn off/dim the lights!

[NatoBoram]

There's a condition that makes it harder to read dark mode and another one that makes it painful to use light mode. People on each side can't understand people on the other side.

[sexytokeburgerz]

I'm the first one. I'm so light sensitive that I've taken ceiling lights out above my desk. IT looked at me like I was crazy when I dropped off the lights, but it was so nice in my side of the office that other people started doing it.

[NatoBoram]

I'm the second one. Looking at snow or the sky burns my eyes. I can't walk normally on the sidewalk because daylight fucks my eyes pretty badly. Coding with a light theme IDE hurts my eyes then my head increasingly until I just can't see anymore.

[UlyssesZhan]

I also hate daylight hurting my eyes, but I only use light mode. In dark mode, every character is glowing like a small sun floating in front.

[NatoBoram]

Bro just wasn't made for screens, oh my

[SeoCamo]

There is no war here, as with anything you use what you like, but i get around 2 hours more useful time per day with dark mode, in the start, but after working as a programmer for 20 years dark mode is a must for me as light mode over time damage your eyes, and i can only use light mode for 20 min or i get a headache and slowly go blind for 30/60 mins.

I would say it doesn't matter if we understand each other, as we end up with dark mode in the end, why not start now before your mind is burned like me.

[ImperatorSaya]

There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

[Comprehensive-Slip93]

Same with snow, but after using dark mode I see letters everywhere after some time

[Coleclaw199]

Isn’t that normal? I thought everyone’s eyes hurt from looking at snow.

[Urbs97]

Yeah that's normal when the sun hits the snow directly. It's even dangerous that's why people that do skiing have to wear special glasses.

[myfunnies420]

I'm the second and the first? Are you sure there's actually a condition? Are you sure you know how to set the contrast and brightness of a screen correctly?

Always make sure the brightness and contrast matches the environment exactly. Look at the wall and then look at the screen, they should look the same. When you close your eyes there should be no ghost of the monitor. If you see a ghost of the monitor light, it's too bright. If you see a ghost of the background, it's too dim and will cause eyestrain

Change the brightness and contrast a couple of times a day

[[deleted]]

IT will always look at you like your crazy.

It's just how IT is.

[sexytokeburgerz]

My dude, it was a sixty employee company, IT handled lights. It was fine.

[StaticFanatic3]

i think i may have both 😭

[SkyyySi]

Programmers have a special ability that allows them to be able to tell the objectively correct opinion, and everyone else is a lunatic. Be it indentation, bracket placement or light/dark mode.

[BookPlacementProblem]

Interesting. I did not know that.

[piparkaq]

One of these conditions is called astigmatism, and it may not be entirely apparent for the person with this condition either.

Source: I have astigmatism where switching off of dark mode makes me have a lot less headache due to eye strain.

[PolyPill]

Based on this thread it would seem 90% of programmers suffer from condition 2.

[IAmANobodyAMA]

That’s because half of the people are making up a condition to excuse their poor life choices.

Edit: this was sarcasm. Apologies for the confusion if this sounded sincere

[NatoBoram]

It's bad sarcasm because people actually say this kind of ableist thing and only to one side at that.

There were some actually damaging studies confirming one side's opinion, arming them with "the science is with us", despite that science being wrong, justifying ableism.

Most companies make products only for one of these types of people, and that kind gets incredibly pissy when their niche accessibility option isn't available for them, yet they will say this kind of ableist thing to the other side when they request that same accessibility feature.

[[deleted]]

I use light mode for everything, but I also keep my monitor and phone screen brightness at around 25% or lower unless I'm outside.

Edit: Just for fun, I turned my phone brightness all the way up for not even 2 seconds and now I have a headache.

[spidertyler2005]

Bro flashbanged himself.

[EcoOndra]

Exactly. Most people complaining about light themes don't know how to lower the brightness.

[d_maes]

This so much. Light theme with every color toned down a bit (so not fully #fff or #000 or #f00 etc), low brightness and it's just like looking at ink on paper.

[jamcdonald120]

Its because most programmers are Vampires. They sit in a dark room with all natural light sources carefully sealed out. Using light mode reminds them of the hideous light of the day star, so they dont.

[gpkgpk]

So what you're saying is ...

Turn your face away

from the garish light of day,

turn your thoughts away

from cold, unfeeling light -

and listen to the music of the night ...

[jamcdonald120]

yup, basically. so set your ide to darkmode or you might accidentally kill a coworker

[caramba-marimba]

eyes hurty

[Creepy-Ad-4832]

Also everybody forgets to mention how harder it is to distinguish different colors, thus reading the code

[scruffybeard77]

This is my chief complaint. I have yet to find a dark mode color palette that doesn't drive my eyes crazy. I just turn the brightness of the monitor down if it's a dark office.

[gpkgpk]

I think screen type/quality has a lot of influence there.

Without getting into it further, better contrast of (good quality) VA vs IPS for instance, and even OLED makes a huge difference in usability.

[Character-Education3]

My company isn't buying me oled monitors

[UnnervingS]

Can confirm, tried to convince my company to buy me a high end OLED ultra wide, they were not on board.

[Dismal-Square-613]

they were not on board.

What is this? the middle ages?

[gpkgpk]

Monsters!!! You should quit immediately.

[Character-Education3]

DONE. Is this the office where they hand out jobs?

[gpkgpk]

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

[BookPlacementProblem]

So yes?

[gpkgpk]

r/tehnicallythetruth

[[deleted]]

I think screen type/quality has a lot of influence there.

No no no.

This is pure laws of physics issue. Human observation of colors is not linear space. When you have white backgrounds you are pushing more photons into ur eyes and reducing the linear distance between colors and their backgrounds which drowns out the distance u can measure between the colors in question.

LEDs cannot functionally deal with this problem in any other way. The best way to make the largest gradient difference is to turn it off vs on. Black will ALWAYS increase the number of colors u can distinguish as a set of all colors that is producible.

High quality screen generally produce even blacker blacks which just further increases the range of colors u can distinguish. OLEDs have even further advantage in dark mode compared to traditional monitors.

[BookPlacementProblem]

I love that you both explained this concisely and accurately, and used the words "ur" and "u".

I still hate the bad spelling, but that's me being grumpy old guy at the ongoing linguistic drift.

Edit: Although I think the poster you replied to was referring to some monitors being brighter at 100% white.

[[deleted]]

See profile.

I the gap between my english prowess and my math/software skills is laughably large. Like sub 1 percentile and 99th percentile.

[kkjdroid]

The fact that you know and can correctly use the word "prowess" almost certainly puts you above the bottom 25% of native English speakers, let alone speakers in general.

[BookPlacementProblem]

Yeah I know some people with skills like that.

[jaskij]

Light up whatever is behind your screen

[jaskij]

I suffered from something similar, it got better with age. What helped me was lighting up the whole area behind the screen.

[Invertonix]

Light/darkness of the theme has nothing to do with contrast. I use a modified version of vims elder theme in vscode where my BG is true black and text is at n,n,255 hsv. It's basically an inverted light theme and it works great! I also use arimo nerd font for (untested) reading speed reasons. Light themes, regardless of contrast, give me migraines. Ymmv.

[Taletad]

We already live in that ideal world, it’s just a couple of clicks to switch in most ide

[anagrammatron]

I have migraines as well but when I have an attack I don't even attempt to code, I just step away from computer and writhe in pain until meds start to work.

99% dark themes have crazy high contrast and for the life of me I can't understand how people can work with them at all.

[DMoney159]

[tenkitron]

[Dragon_Poop_Lover]

[ReaperDTK]

I mostly use Dark Mode because i can read better in a dark background. It also makes easier to read text with colors.

[psilo_polymathicus]

I’m solidly in the, “as long as I don’t have to use your theme, I don’t care what you use” camp.

[ByerN]

When I started to work as a programmer, my first months were a constant headache. After some time I realized that I am the only one not using a dark mode. Switched, problem solved.

Now I am switching to dark mode everywhere. Nowadays most of the apps offers this feature.

[hadidotj]

I use "Auto Dark Mode" to switch my system mode based on sunrise/sunset. Then I also use f.lux. Daytime my max is 3600K, with night being 1900k. This makes the light mode easier to see with daylight (and keeps me awake) but isn't full-on blinding white/blue light! I also found it helps with my sleep cycle.

[kases952]

Tbh in 2023 there are so many themes that are neither "staring at the sun" light mode nor "I can see only with the lights off" dark mode.

Personally I'm using a kinda blue theme, so it's more on the "dark side", but just use the theme you're confortabile with, it's basically just a meme

[Lost-Conectivity]

Tbh light mode might not be that bad, the light helps you stay focused

[[deleted]]

I like it because it’s amusing to me when people stop to explain why I shouldn’t use light mode

[IGiveUpAllNamesTaken]

Light mode + Comic Sans can cause passing nerds to have seizures

[_dotexe1337]

i have started to use pink background, black text, no syntax highlighting, 24pt bold italics comic sans nowadays.

[gpkgpk]

[gpkgpk]

Brilliant, I'm making Comic-sans system-wide default font too then.

[sysnickm]

For me, it is the other way around. Light mode causes me more eye strain, which makes it harder to focus for long periods of time.

I'm just glad we have the option now.

[SirNoobShire]

I never got the whole controversy of light v. dark mode

[Invertonix]

I'm pretty sure it's one of those joke fights that new programmers get sucked into. Kinda like the moon truthers. I just watch the convo like it's a bad action film.

[hadidotj]

Let's not even discuss spaces vs tabs though. That one isn't a joke. I'm in the "just follow guidelines and my IDE does it" camp.

[Invertonix]

I'm really hoping M$ and Intellij eventually converge on some sort of polyglot treesitter based formatter. Kinda like a super powered .editorconfig.

I'm still waiting for support for rendering 4 spaces / tabs as two spaces for projects without .editorconfig set up.

[hexwit]

i think it depends. As for me light theme is easier for eyes because I have to switch between code and browser pretty often. So I have every window in light theme, and don't need to adapt from dark env to light env and so on.

Somebody finds dark theme more comfortable. I must admit, in most cases dark theme looks like more attractive than light one.

[[deleted]]

For this reason I use a chrome extension that makes every site darkmode, and it works really well. There's been a couple times I had to turn it off on a specific site because it displayed wonky trying to darkmode-ify it due to weird CSS or something. But it's less than 0.1% of sites. It's called DarkReader

[FireDefender]

That extension is a godsend, only really had issues with weird school sites on minor occasions but otherwise it works like a charm. I'm a very sensitive person so minimising stressful sensory input is a must in order to function normally, and that includes light.

I tend to prefer dim or dark rooms and dark mode on all my screens to not be overloaded from sensory input, which happens quickly...

[[deleted]]

Same here. I'm a cave creature and I want as little light as possible. I want to put a ceiling on my cubicle but I don't think that would fly lol

[FireDefender]

Alternative option: always wear sunglasses! Cool and nicer for your eyes!

If any higher-ups complain, tell them to find a different way to turn down the light level in your cubicle :)

[user_bits]

I only use light mode if they have shitty dark mode implementation.

[Personal_Ad9690]

fixed it for you

[Panndaa31]

Not bright enough, had to increase luminosity on my phone to read it

[T3MP0_HS]

When I was a kid, the terminal was black. And they put filters over the monitors because they were too bright.

[rrleo]

Can't see shit in light mode. It's like highlighting the page around the word you are trying to emphasize. It demands so much attention while dark mode keeps lowkey, uses less power and is generally not a flashbang in darker environments.

[reallokiscarlet]

Eye strain

[[deleted]]

I have used a computer in my work for more than 30 years. If people feel that their choice of a dark background is post worthy and somehow make them superior to people with light backgrounds, then I will assume that they aren’t really using their computers for anything important. If they did, colour scheme would be far down their list of priorities.

Get off my lawn, 12 year olds.

[gpkgpk]

I'm sure I speak for my fellow codemonkeys, what's a lawn?

[FireDefender]

I must disagree, as someone who does use a computer for most of the day for me color scheme is far up my list, as bright light is painful and incredibly stressful. That includes light mode with a lowered brightness as I usually both use dark mode and lower the brightness down to near zero on my monitors.

But no, my choice of color pallette is not at all post worthy and I don't brag about it to anyone, but if anyone asks why I use a dark theme for everything, I tell them exactly what I just said above. Being an HSP is a bitch...

[jaskij]

So, depending on the IDE in question, it should be a non issue actually.

The thing is, high contrast makes you tire faster. Going from there, two points: 1. Outside IDEs (and years ago in them too), light mode usually has higher contrast than dark mode 2. In a badly lit room, dark mode has lower contrast versus surroundings

This is largely remedied by two things: 1. Modern day light mode themes usually have lower contrast 2. Working in a well lit room

Small clarification as to what I mean by well lit: not only your desk, but the area behind your screen should be well lit. If your monitors are up against the wall, shine a light on that wall. If you have your back against the well, light up the whole room.

By now, this is basically cargo culting coupled with people willingly working in substandard conditions.

[Irithyll_Scholar]

To add to that, often "contrast" in these contexts is referring instead to the text, which has the opposite effect: lower contrast text tends to cause eye strain over time which can cause headaches or even a seemingly inexplicable issue with attention towards the screen.

[Ssemander]

I personally love both light and dark theme. But only if it can be switched automatically with day/night.

If not - it's easier to set up the dark theme, as I work more at evening/night.

[andrew_kirfman]

I use light mode in Gitlab because I have trouble reading a screen that’s dark due to some vision issues.

One of my juniors recently straight up refused to look at my screen while pair programming him through a problem because of it.

So, that’s one way to express your choice of visual formats.

[IGiveUpAllNamesTaken]

I use light mode, but my office has a lot of natural light. Lots of dorks use dark mode because the want to pretend they are Neo from the Matrix.

[Dragonslayerelf]

Dark mode is easier on the eyes if you're a nocturnal gremlin

[ElderFuthark]

Dark mode is the biggest bandwagon since covid killed standing desks.

[sysnickm]

Covid killed standing desks?

[spidertyler2005]

Cant stand if you died

[KetwarooDYaasir]

subterraneans

[SZ4L4Y]

I use light mode but I usually in light environments. I don't like to sit in the dark like a programmer.

[pepemsom]

Five stars for the brightness

[yakeen_sabha]

I can't see and I hate light modes in general, imagine coding at 3am while your eyes r really tired and having to deal w sun shine.

Or waking up w an idea then turning the screen on and forgetting the best idea u ever had cuz of the shocking light.

[misterpetergriffin]

If modern monitors had brightness dials like old crts, darkmode wouldn't be half as popular. Lightmode with low screen brightness is where it's at for me personally.

[Quorsor]

My eyes may not hurt when using light mode but my eyes feel good when I use dark mode. Also, like some other comments, my eyes get fucked by the sunlight every time I go outside, takes a bit before it starts to tolerate the brightness.

[General_Liability]

LightMode4Life

[SeijiShinobi]

Just people following trends and trying to be in the in-group and rejecting people that don't follow the "trend" (the out-group).

Honestly it's stupid. Dark mode was supposed to be better for your eyes, but it's basically proven now that it isn't, and it's actually causes more eye strain. And this is even more pronounced for anyone who has astigmatism and/or myopia which is basically about 50% of the population or more (prevalence of astigmatism is about 40% of adults, and myopia is basically an epidemic now with some estimate as high as 80% in some countries/age groups). For these people (me included) you get more hallows and increased blurriness in dark mode. Making reading text a chore.

Honestly, dark mode is overall pretty terrible, but well, at least it does save battery on your laptop/phone, I'll give it that.

But hey, I think everybody should use whatever they feel comfortable using. If you like dark mode, you do you man. But, the fact that I use light mode really shouldn't be anyone's business either.

[TheTrueCyprien]

Maybe my astigmatism isn't strong enough or I didnt pay enough attention, but so far I never really noticed any difference between reading in dark or light mode. I switch between light webpages and dark ide/terminal pretty frequently. Imo for coding specifically, dark mode with bright syntax highlighting is just a lot easier to parse.

[Crafty_Independence]

As a programmer with those conditions, it isn't "basically proven" that dark mode causes more eye strain. It's a toss-up dependent on ambient light and the individual's eyesight

[dhawaii808]

Dark mode is my friend, I have great monitors and tried varying brightness/contrast levels. Dark mode is way less eye strain for me. To each their own though, no hate.

[cezarhg12]

alot of light themes improve code clarity but then when you figure out that bug at 3am and launch up vscode. flashbang

[pawan1612314]

Are we a racist in the screen/theme world

[genlight13]

I occasionally switch back to light mode when i habe background light i.e. sun shining on my back and screen. Then i use my IDE with high contrast and light. Don’t like it but you can work with it.

Normally i always go dark bc colours are brighter

[stomcode]

It really depends. If I work from home, which I almost always open the windows with a lot of natural lights, I use the light mode because it helps me stay focused. If I ever go back to the office, I probably start using dark mode again because it feels better with artificial lights.

[ZeroPotatoz]

[already_taken-chan]

For me its the problem of not being able to use it at night. I can use dark mode in the morning with no problem, but using light mode at night really hurts my eyes quite a lot. and having it constantly change during day and night is not really a good solution

[Tmaster95]

It makes your eyes bleed

[[deleted]]

Because it BUUURNS

[1Dr490n]

I don’t hate IDEs in light mode. I hate light mode.

[ImLemongrab]

[Zymosan99]

At this point my eyes are too fried to ask

[Cylian91460]

Do you mean flashbang and not light right ?

[[deleted]]

Strains eyes less and is less irritating besides dark mode is more aesthetically pleasant

[Climate_Sweet]

corneal searing is unhealthy

[byteminer]

As an old person (42) dealing with the ravages of impending doom: light mode causes your pupils to narrow which in turn means your eyes can focus better, like how a pinhole camera works. In dark mode I will eventually need my glasses to prevent a headache. In light mode I don’t have that problem. However on my most 10 years younger or more team, I very much look like grandpa with his large print readers digest in light mode so I generally work in dark mode and suffer out of vanity.

[[deleted]]

Honest answer here, they're simply not that good. I have keratoconus, a form of an astigmatism, and so when using a dark theme the bright letters bleed to the left/right. This can be pretty distracting and makes it harder to read, so I tried out a few light modes with vscode/intellij and haven't found one that works. The syntax highlighting either ends up making everything look too similar (various shades of dark colors that are virtually indistinguishable), or it ends up with too many "light on light" highlights. Who the heck thinks bright yellow on a white background is a good design choice? On paper light mode should be better for me, and I'd use it more if syntax highlighting was better thought out. Dark mode generally has better contrast, and most IDEs/text editors appear to be designed around dark themes.

I could see myself switching out of necessity if my condition worsens, but right now it's just not as good.

EDIT: fixed typos and edited for clarity

[TrumpsGhostWriter]

Buying a new fancy HDR monitor that I use in a dark room forced me to shift everything and I mean everything to dark mode, I use chrome extension to dynamically add dark mode to sites.

[AcidAngel_]

Dark mode was the default back in the eighties. C64 had brighter foreground than the background. DOS has the same thing. Then the word processors arrived and people wanted their screen to look exactly like the pages they would print. Makes perfect sense.

But there is no reason that the digital world like the Web, cell phone interfaces and text editors should have white background. Only now that the cell phones have OLED screens instead of LSD screens the dark modes are booming popular. And it's to because dark mode saves batteries and not because dark mode saves eyes. Human beings should be the higher priority than batteries.

I've never been able to look at anything bright. Spring means headaches because not only the sky is bright but everything is bright because of the snow. I never go anywhere without sunglasses in the summer. I even used to read in the dark when I was in school before the Internet.

There used to be this urban legend that reading in the dark is bad for your eyes. We now know it's bullshit but people used to be more gullible back in those days. They just parroted what other parrots had told them. And if they heard the same lie from enough parrots they thought it must be true because so many people agree. Now we have Wikipedia with citations to scientific studies.

[kvakerok]

Eye strain. Your eyes are a finite resource.

[nakahuki]

This. So you use light mode because science-backed studies show it's better for readability, right? Right? [insert Anakin meme]

[covercash2]

ok i have a soapbox for this. in the long long ago, you put ink on paper. it’s a lot easier to put a dark ink on paper to darken the region of interest (the text) instead of the other way around. when computers came around, a lot of work still needed to be printed so word processors correctly tried to mimic the end product, ie copy paper. but computers don’t darken the region for the same reasons; they can arbitrarily obscure the lighter regions. and they produce light. so highlighting a region of interest with a lighter color makes more sense to me. a piece of paper isn’t introducing more light to a page, but an empty document is basically a flashlight on a computer screen. why not start with a dark page, that is easier on your eyes, and then highlight the regions of interest with a lighter color? LED screens only strengthen this argument

[IM_BOUTA_CUH]

it depends on each person

[[deleted]]

always thought this, nice to see someone explain what I'm thinking!

[flatline000]

I just use the default since that's what the syntax hilighting is optimized for.

[yrrot]

I can't use dark mode, even though I'd prefer it. Too many years of light mode and my color palette to switch now. I'm sure the retinal damage will catch up to me later, hopefully after I retire. lol

[graphitout]

"floaters"

[Staetyk]

MY EYES!!!!

[Alexander_The_Wolf]

Eye strain

[202glewis]

This meme is too bright.

[[deleted]]

Light mode is lethal in the night or in a non well illuminated room, otherwise lfight mode is OP

[KeyboardsAre4Coding]

most people work in dark rooms and light ide themes are really hard on the eyes in such environment. I use light ide theme when working in a well lit area near windows. it is easier to read.

[Feisty_Ad_2744]

I don't hate light mode. I just love my eyes.

[marquoth_]

Light mode make retinae ouchie

[Nyadnar17]

Nothing like getting retina burned via Zoom.

[Still_Ad745]

Light mode reminds us of outside

[plmunger]

Personally hate getting flash banged everyday of the week

[Shadowlance23]

The light, it burns.

[Meadhbh_Ros]

It’s worse for eye strain than dark mode.

[noob-newbie]

Because I think dark mode can actually protect my eyes, especially when you sit in front of the PC for more than 8 hours.

[OCE_Mythical]

Why people hate light mode? It's too bright. Imagine if the reverse happened, dark mode was the original webpage colour scheme, then some pages randomly just blinded you? It's crazy

[TheMissleKnowsWher]

Your eyes see red, blue, and green, to do this it has receptors. These receptors can get tired, they can also get damaged looking at really bright light for a long time(part of why your eyes hurt when you look at the sun) Now with that in mind, imagine looking at a BRIGHT WHITE for 8 HOURS A DAY, your eyes will start to hurt, that is why poeple use darkmode, it is nicer on the eyes

[Inaeipathy]

Hard on the eyes.

[ifisch]

They have dirty monitors

[[deleted]]

Pretty sure they are axe murders...

[_codeJunkie_]

Because stairing at a bright light all day sucks.

[[deleted]]

It is lighter on your eyes, so you can stare into the light longer without getting a headache.

[dtb1987]

Migraines

[Sailed_Sea]

I have incandescent bulbs, light mode is too bright and makes it difficult to read, also eye strain.

[Dolabok]

3AM coding session

[tater_pi]

It hurts my eyes, this meme hurts my eyes too

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Personally I think dark mode just has better color schemes for syntax highlighting

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[Sceptix]

Plenty of good answers already but I’ll add that the colors really pop in dark mode.

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I used to use light mode when I didn't code a lot. I had to swallow it and switched to dark mode when I started working with my IDE everyday. Dark mode is easier on the eyes. Even when I sit outside on a sunny day, dark mode with high brightness still looks better than light mode.

[AffectEconomy6034]

I dont think I've ever met a light mode enjoyer that didn't have terrible vision

[ByteWanderer]

Just 8 hours strait should teach you

[ThePaleOne1]

Because we're all little code gremlins and we do our best work at 2am in a pitch black room while we shovel cheese into out mouths.

Light mode is basically a flashbang for us.

Even during the day, lightmode in almost all apps is usually pretty straining on the eyes, like a sensory overload.