What can we do to change this? I don't think chapo.chat will ever be huge, but it would be nice for it to be consistently active.

  • kilternkafuffle [any]
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    4 years ago

    Default dark mode for converting users from a default lightmode site is very stupid.

    Can confirm - the strongest reason why I considered NOT joining is the dark mode, which was new, grating, and disorienting. I get that it's enviro-friendly... but none of the sites I'm used to do that, so it's like working with the lights off suddenly.

    And if you're used to going to settings and changing from light to dark and vice-versa - cool. But the rest of us derps aren't.

    Full support for focusing on the front page and KILLING AUTOUPDATE that makes everything jump every 20 seconds.

    • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      The meme of 'dark mode master race' is humorous, but a terrible move if converting people from Reddit.

      Unfortunately, the first impression has been made now and all those people pinged on Discord will have been turned off by the site's appearance already.

      And switching to default light mode now, (which you should @Beatnik ) will cause users here now to get mad about it. Though you can just tell them to change settings.

      "Enviro-friendly" is nonsense, if that's a reason anyone is giving that's laughable.

      The worst part is the "base" light mode option looks like THIS currently: https://i.imgur.com/vq72G3Q.png

      So I'm forced to keep using dark mode. Insane that fixing the fucking light mode site isn't a priority.

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yeesh, that's a rough-looking light mode.

        And switching to default light mode now, (which you should @Beatnik ) will cause users here now to get mad about it.

        Ideally you could grandfather in existing users to dark mode, although I have no idea how technically challenging this would be.