Given how pedantic and cargo-culty the HN community can be about even the tiniest detail of the layout here, it doesn't surprise me that the mods don't make it a priority. The arguments about implementation details and edge cases would be ceaseless, and people would clutch their pearls about HN "turning into Reddit."
Also dark mode seems way too modern a feature for a forum whose entire aesthetic is frozen in the 1990s. Dark mode doesn't directly improve the signal to noise ratio or quality of conversation.
Maybe the best solution is to just let everyone use whatever plugins or browser scripts they want to and leave HN as it is.
rcarmo|4 months ago
krapp|4 months ago
Also dark mode seems way too modern a feature for a forum whose entire aesthetic is frozen in the 1990s. Dark mode doesn't directly improve the signal to noise ratio or quality of conversation.
Maybe the best solution is to just let everyone use whatever plugins or browser scripts they want to and leave HN as it is.