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by justsomehnguy 875 days ago
> Pretty sure dark mode is much easier on the eyes at night at least.

Only while you have a good/perfect eyesight.

It's counterintuitive but black-on-white has less perceived contrast ratio than whatever-on-black. And while you can tone down brightness and contrast of the display device for the 'day' theme, if you do that for the dark theme it just makes the text dull and harder to read.