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this is a nice thoughtful way to do it

i'll sure appreciate no longer having a discolored streak down the center of my display from the current dark mode causing ghosting on my panel, aha! thanks for sayin' something about it, for sure!

Oh, hey, that's a really cool implementation of it, seriously.

Also! You're really doing a good job at… …all of this, especially given the pressure of managing the PR end of things amidst also having limited coding labour to split up between your various longer-term projects with the site. You're doing a fantastic job, and I hope you can keep it up into the future. Not everyone could handle the kind of pressure you're having to contend with. ,,,

This sounds like a really good solution, thanks!

Really happy to see this!

I appreciate this, thank you.

This seems cool. I think a very important thing that people were forgetting talking about it the last few days is how forcibly changing user-formatted styles in posts would like, mess with and even completely break a ton of creative stuff people are doing. I don't think that a dark mode should override all custom formatting anymore than I think light mode should. It's not just a matter of black or white text on black or white backgrounds.

That being said, at least 99% of posts would be simple enough to reformat for dark mode, so being able to swap it on individual posts is good for when it causes problems. I like formatting posts with light text on dark background (when I can be bothered to open up prechoster) and I would be 100% in favour of a button to cancel out all my formatting if it's an issue for somebody.

I guess I'm still worried that having to click a button to always fix a post could make custom post styles seem annoying? But that's like, largely a user and site culture issue.

Another successful struggle session.

thank you

Wait, there already is a dark mode? How do I set that? I don't see it under the settings page.

Happy

thanks for making cohost!

speaking as someome on mobile, dark mode doesnt really feel like dark mode. though with things like CSS crimes, i also figured it wouldnt be so simple to implement. simple or not though, it aint killing me, yall take it easy

Y'all know this and we are only retreading things that have already been said plenty of times before. but, i don't know. i want to put our feelings out there.

A few months ago we were going to write a post about all of the accessibility issues that have been (from the perspective of the users) ignored. We never got around to it because, we sincerely do understand how much work running the website is, developing it, communicating, dealing with life and disabilities. We didn't feel adding pressure would have contributed (we know y'all are constantly working to improve this place), especially with the very inflamed feelings we had at the time.

But, like. Ahm. We know the survival of the website is important. It's why getting tipping going is one of the top priorities. But accessibility really should be first and foremost, above all else. Like, ugh, we know there will always be a fire to put out. There will always be a bug, an issue that is causing trouble for a great deal of beings, a missing feature, some reputational fire to put out. And cohost is a project that's being built live. But. Uhm. We're not software developers, and we don't have any idea what cohost looks from the inside. But we feel it is super important to always develop with accessibility in mind, because it either becomes too hard later on or gets pushed away. And failing that, communicating better about it.

We don't know if this is bad business planning, because cohost is a business at the end of the day. It has to pay people's rents. But we rather a website that is buggy and doesn't grow, but at least is, like, physically accessible to everyone.

i live for the dark mode, thank u :3

How do i enable dark mode? 👀

yeah, the way things went where it seemed like folks were pouring fluorinated gasoline on a fire in the name of defending y'alls honor was... possibly the most maddening thing about the past two days

i think that's a reasonable way to say that?

thank you!!!!!!!!

1. thank you!
2. I think a lot of frustration coming from people defending the dev perspective (or any side of it, really) is that this kind of intra-platform quasi-personal conflict around feature development is not a new thing or unique to this site and so it's not Just About This Thing. TBH lots of people just have bad experiences on one side of this or another so it makes it more likely that everybody has a bug up their butt about it (eggbug, get outta there..). one hopes cooler heads shall prevail and this is a step towards that!

That's pretty cool. Thanks for putting it out there 💖

"no one needs to" I mean... yeah. but most people probably still wanna.
It's fuckin rude to bash someone making good stuff, that both parties are usin.

Thank you for adding this! I do appreciate the work y'all do and I am glad to see that y'all're acknowledging the other issues that caused this to flare up.

It's a good sign that y'all are trying to do the right thing and it's one of the things that give me legitimate hope for this site even with the rough patches.