[nck4222]

>This is 100% incidental complexity.

The article talked a lot about their new dark mode feature, how they wouldn't have been able to implement it in their old tech stack, and how they were able to reduce their CSS size while adding a dark mode.

But is dark mode all that important? Even as a developer I don't care at all about FB having a dark mode, did they really need to rewrite their entire site to implement features no one cares about? Also, for a photo and video sharing site, is CSS size really important? I just loaded the page and it loaded 13.2mb worth of data while making 249 requests. Thanks for cutting down your 400kb CSS file though I guess.

[orpheansodality]

"I don't care about this feature" !== "nobody cares about this feature." I feel like this is a fallacy a lot of programmers (myself included) tend to fall into, but it's a dangerous trap.

[robertoandred]

Just because you don't care about a feature doesn't mean no one does.

[splintercell]

Dark mode is very important. Do you use Flux by the way?

[gowld]

Supporting dark mode == 2 bad UI instead of 1 good one.

f.lux works well with normal UI, replicating natural light.