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light brigade

If I see another person suggest a plugin for a dark mode feature request, I will blow a gasket.

Please let me use your website how I want to within reason.

Many solutions exist. Match system defaults. Show a mode toggle that guests can use. Add a color scheme dark enough not to blind me in darkness. Make my day by adding a black theme too.

Gatekeeping dark mode behind accounts isn't enough for me. Forcing light mode when dark mode can be easily supported is worse. Forcing light mode on your website is your choice. My patronage of your website is my choice.

I uninstall dark mode browser plugins soon after installing them. Enough unique websites make toggling and management a chore. Sometimes, I need to see default website colors. Colors of web experiences break often enough to where I revert to defaults. Dynamic browsing makes blacklists and whitelists a pain.

Dark mode has other benefits. It can be accessible, adding color contrast and visibility for website content. It can be healthy and ergonomic, reducing blue light exposure and screen glare. It improves portability by improving battery life. Black themes also suit OLED screens where black pixels get turned off. That further increases battery life.

My asks aren't even subtractive. They are additive at a low cost, if any. Some platforms make it as easy as one step.

Still, requests for an opt-in dark mode get ridiculed or ignored. How long will webmasters mistreat users' requests, desires, and system defaults?

Can I darken the site? I just want to darken the site.

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