Comment by gethly
In short, it is the worst fad the is plaguing the internet nowadays.
In short, it is the worst fad the is plaguing the internet nowadays.
Exactly. There's no reason why an individual user shouldn't prefer dark mode, and there's no reason why a site shouldn't offer it. But if you run a popular site, it's an asshole move to force it on your users, as so many sites are doing these days.
I don't know about the worst, but it's up there.
And it's not as if this question hadn't been definitively settled by human-factors researchers in the last century. Light text on a dark background is harder to read on a screen. No room for debate, the studies have been done and replicated. There's a reason why computing left "dark mode" in a junk heap full of green- and amber-phosphor CRT monitors.