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[–] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No thx. Not interested in this photon ui with 50% empty space.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also has a compact display option which is similar to the standard UI.

[–] snugglebutt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Not only that, there's also a toggle in the settings that stretches the posts to cover the whitespace

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 year ago
[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no thank you, I like my eyes

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

this post is about lemmy-ui vs photon, not light vs dark theme photon has dark theme

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you have against dark mode?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have nothing against dark mode, it's about the front-end.

[–] Titou@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, with 50% of empty space

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not everybody lives in a cave.

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah but most of us do, now turn down the brightness

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But dark mode just looks better. Plus it uses less energy for unnecessary brightness, at least on mobile.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

photon has a dark theme.

[–] skylestia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me it's just astigmatism

https://zapier.com/blog/dark-mode-bad-productivity/

https://medium.com/@h_locke/why-dark-mode-causes-more-accessibility-issues-than-it-solves-d2f8359bb46a

I get headaches if I read white text on a dark background for too long, and my understanding is that about half of the population of the planet has astigmatism to some degree or other

i like the way dark mode looks but if i use it too long it gets physically painful in the form of headaches, i generally don't use apps that only have dark modes as a result, unless i can make a custom theme for it, then i will more often than not make a light theme for it. or i'll make a theme that automatically updates the colors based on what i choose in my system settings, which is something i've done for Lemmy and a few other things, but yeah

edit: sorry, when i originally saved that medium article a couple of years ago there was no paywall, now there is, so here's the same article archived https://archive.is/20220807164035/https://medium.com/@h_locke/why-dark-mode-causes-more-accessibility-issues-than-it-solves-d2f8359bb46a

[–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Doesn't look like the laptop they tested, the Asus ZenBook 13 UX333FA, uses OLED. So yeah it isn't gonna make a difference since you're still lighting the full backlight. But it makes even more of a difference on phones, since their processor is less powerful by comparison.

[–] mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is photon the name of the UI theme? where can I get it 👀

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago

it seems people think this post is about dark vs light theme, photon has a dark theme

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Photon produces more photons

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[–] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which client are you using?

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

so simple so nice