[avazhi]

I know the author says the article is tongue in cheek but honestly, what's he smoking?

Forget about physiologically measurable eyestrain for a second. NOT staring at a super bright white light is more comfortable and less jarring in many (arguably nearly all) use cases. Anecdotal for sure, but across friends and family that span dozens of demographics I've never shown dark mode to someone where they then had a bad reaction - all of them found it interesting, if not downright soothing compared to dark mode, and most of them continued using it in the future and even trying to find dark mode on other sites they use.

Less subjectively, it really isn't hard to make a dark mode interface and complaining about having to do so is wild. Skill issue.

[krackers]

>super bright white light

Simply going outside should be brighter than your monitor. We're pretty much evolved to hunt (and thus see best) during the daytime. I'm convinced a lot of the reasons people hate light themes is because their monitors and/or color temperature are too bright compared to ambient light.

[CrendKing]

I completely disagree. I personally find dark mode harmful to my eyes. Try this: open a page full of white text on black background. Stare at it for 10 seconds. Now close your eyes. You can clearly see the afterimages of those bright text lingering for quite a while. Now try this with black on white page. No afterimage at all.

Like the author says, if the screen is too bright for you, lower the brightness, or use night light mode. You can change your environment. You can't change how your eyes/brain function.

[HappMacDonald]

No, with black text on white background I get an afterimage of the entire screen.

I don't want to force you to use dark mode, by all means continue viewing your world with dark text on bright backgrounds and let us view things the way that we prefer them.

[ddingus]

Yeah, it's the long form of "just kidding"

And often followed by sorry, (not sorry)