Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass

Do not start a headline with "Darkness reigns over Wikipedia"!!!

At last, I won’t get blinded whenever I open Wikipedia

These are dark times

The year is 2024, hacker news stands strong as only remaining website to not offer darkmode.

Thou art forbidden to peruse our content in the dead of night; verily, our content is for the light of day alone.

Wikipedia is such a beauty and I'm so glad and grateful it exists. Surely it's not perfect, but it's so inspiring and hopeful to see a collective effort be so successful. I sometimes wonder, what new projects we've seen since that are equally inspiring. The Fediverse certainly is beautiful but it's also still a little bit fringe. I personally really like MusicBrainz, but that started 24 years ago What new collective projects has the internet brought us in recent years? And what collective projects could the future bring us?

If you are on desktop and you aren't sure how it works, try out this Wiki page and in the top right corner you can see an "eyeglasses" looking icon. Click that and set it to Automatic or Dark.

Very happy to see it come to wikipedia!!

But I think it also needs some polish. The contrast is too high and the blue on black of the hyperlinks is too garish for sure.

Hello DarkReader my old friend...

Which you still need for mobile. Edit: Nope.

The Washington Post: "Democracy dies in darkness"

Wikipedia: "Knowledge that is shared in torchlight is fucking awesome"

I thought this was gonna be about Wikipedia finally shutting down because nobody donates

Finally I don’t need to have an account just to have dark mode

finnaly I'll use wikipedia on my laptop more

Finally the l33t hax0rz from Anonymous can browse Wikipedia in peace

Dark mode, night mode, light-on-dark design, or whatever you want to call the version of computer content that doesn't feel blindingly bright at night...

Don't wanna be that guy, but these template news-article openings always make my brain hurt. Come on, as if everyone has ever called it anything else than "Dark mode".

I can’t be the only one who doesn’t see well with dark mode.

All jokes aside, I might imagine it wasn't all easy to do it correctly. Great job!

democracy dies in dark mode

It doesn't seem to work on the German Wikipedia. Super weird decision to tie display settings to a language.

A long time coming, but because of their recent changes in the past couple of months if I have JS disabled on Wikipedia I either have an obnoxiously large blank margin on the right, or I get pop-up annoyed by this dark mode announcement with JS enabled and private tab browsing.

Isn't this like one of the signs of the end times?

LOL took 'em long enough.

2 down, 14 more to go. Nice.

Right? We are going to do all of the basic 16 terminal colors, right?

Such innovation

"One who knows nothing can understand nothing"

–Riku who is Ansem who is not Ansem who is Xehanort

Praise Cthulhu!

Did someone use digital blotting paper on the Moon article?

Wikipedia has needed a plugin to be usable for a very long time. That Plugin gives you dark mode, on top of a bunch of other necessary features.

Wiki "Darkmode" which can seeming be bought by anyone with money, to remove content makes WIKI a total lie.

They do not deserve or will earn our money. They are scammers and cheaters.

HACK THE PLANET - FUCK THE LIARS.