[bob1029]

You are allowed to reduce your display brightness. I run my iPhone at the lowest possible setting at night (right now). Try it sometime. It might seem really dim at first but your eyes will adjust in a few minutes.

I think dark mode can be deceptive. Blazing hot white text on a pitch black oled background is like visual caffeine to me. I would not want to be staring at this if I was adjacent to bedtime.

[szszrk]

Why doesn't HN support reading mode in Firefox, anyway?

Dimming doesn't solve much.

I won't dim screen every time I switch apps. It doesn't work when you use multiple apps side-by-side (which is nowadays a thing even on mobile/tables). It doesn't bring relief to people that have visual problems that can be fixed with dark mode (I am super annoyed by floaters that I don't notice 95% of the time. Except from very bright websites like HN).

> Blazing hot white text on a pitch black oled background is like visual caffeine to me.

Same thing for me and my vision - I just can't use pure dark themes. But there is so much middle-ground here.

[ungreased0675]

The display brightness doesn’t go dim enough

[joker99]

I‘d also like a dark mode.

And: on iOS you can reduce the white point quite a bit which makes the display appear very dark indeed. You can even tie it to a shortcut which is quite handy

[burnt-resistor]

On iPhone/iPad, use the zoom accessibility feature set to 1x but with the darken filter on.

On Mac, there's an app old app that still works called Shady to get darker than normal.

[hdgvhicv]

I triple click my power button and it inverts colours, does the job reasonably enough.

[brador]

iPhone min brightness setting still flashes the screen at max brightness, just at a slower rate so you perceive it as less bright, but it’s actually still burning your retina at max light output of the OLED on each flash.

Look it up.