[dabacaba]

I understand that some people prefer a dark theme. What I don't understand is why do some people think that everyone must prefer a dark theme, so they set up their websites to always use a dark theme, regardless of the browser preference?

At least, this website lets you switch to a light theme. But if you do, inline code fragments still use a background color from the dark theme, which makes them practically unreadable. Looks like the author doesn't care about people who prefer a light theme. Then why they complain about websites made by people who don't care about people who prefer a dark theme?

[KTibow]

I agree that implementing two themes but not following browser preference is odd, although I'm a dark mode user. The weird thing is that the Hugo theme used (PaperMod) follows browser preference by default. The blog author had to explicitly turn that off.

[ojkelly]

It’s a consequence of thinking light/dark modes are personal preference when they’re accessibility features.

And when viewed from that lens you can see how off-putting it is when it’s a paid feature, or only adjustable when logged in, or a user-setting that seemingly always defaults to light.