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by tacone 1069 days ago
Thank you for posting this.

Looks pretty basic but somehow complete. The first impression is good. Here's some criticism:

The first thing I look for in a issue tracker is the screen estate to write the task. I understand that some people write a list of issues in the form of short blurbs and iterate on them afterwards, but it always feels frustrating to me to having to write the title in a modal window, save and then open the issue again to be able to see a larger textarea for the description. I also see it as discouraging for people to write better descriptions for the issues they open.

The keyboard navigation is probably not complete (press P to create a project, you would still need the mouse to focus the textbox and to save the project)

On my computer it started in Dark Mode, and the experience overall was quite a bit disorientating. Also no light/mode switch icon in the header.

It is not clear to the user that you can/should use markdown.

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> On my computer it started in Dark Mode, and the experience overall was quite a bit disorientating. Also no light/mode switch icon in the header.

I don't really know that you need a light/dark mode switch. It should follow your preferences. I see dark mode websites all the time, because my desktop is set to dark mode. On my Windows machine I see the same websites with the light-mode, because I did not bother to figure out how to set Windows to dark-mode.

[EDIT: The Plane App ignores my preferences].

Hi, I am Aaryan, one of the maintainers at Plane. We currently have the theming settings available under the profile section, where you can set themes like light, dark, custom themes, and more. Thank you for your suggestion; we will certainly work on implementing the system preference setting and find a better placement for the theme switcher.
Hey Aaryan, I just signed up and am taking the tour, and the body copy (#737373 on #070707) is effectively unreadable while sitting outside with my MacBook Air at max brightness. (Hacker News remains easy to read in the same scenario.)

For accessibility's sake, it'd be nice if the site met WCAG Level AAA contrast ratio requirements.

Thanks for your feedback. Rest assured that we will carefully consider it and work towards enhancing our color schemes accordingly.
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Please make it multilingual (Spanish). Some people here don’t speak good english
Yes of course you need one, the detection is what I can call flaky at best (talking about the websites I visit, not that the tech doesn't exist) and also I know many people who only run a good chunk of websites on their actual preference, and others on the other version, I'm one of them, I only use dark mode in about 1/3 of websites where I know about the two modes.
No, some applications work better in light mode, some in dark mode.
And sometimes it depends on the environment outside of the computer.
Which issue trackers fulfill your requirements?