God bless those developers who give you a dark theme for their apps

Latest update for the devRant app has some new twists: 1) collabs are now free for all 2) black theme is available for devRant++ members 3) when posting a rant we now ask for you to classify the rant as a specific type of post. RIP !rant :/ To be clear, this isn't meant to say that any posted content needs to be different than what everyone is doing already, just that the extra categorization helps all parties who like or dislike different types of content. This categorization will help better inform the algo and allow for advanced filtering which is coming soon.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns please ask me or @dfox in this thread.

This is how every app should start...

When your IDE is in dark mode but every webpage you visit has a white background... And alt-tabbing makes your eyes bleed.

The most evil theme I have come across..

Hello darkness, my old friend... devRant dark theme coming soon

I see my friend open devRant on his mobile.
I tell him to use dark theme.
He switches to dark theme.
I salute.
He salutes.

University is thrilling.

It's night 🌙. Very dark 🌑. You are on an dark themed website. For half an hour. You click another link. Suddenly: Network error 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞!

The truth has been spoken.

IDE without dark theme

Senior : You sure you can do this job?
Me : Yea, it's easy, I just need to write a simple subroutine.
Senior : *Still sceptic* You sure?
Me : Yea of course.
Senior : *Walks away after sighing*
Me : What was that all about?
Fellow Dev : *Looking at my screen* Dude, you really need to start using the dark theme on your editors. It makes you seem more of a professional developer.
*We both burst into laughter* 😂

LOVE IT!

Just tried the light theme again...

*slaps him*

My worst nightmare:

No dark theme.

*Me using dark theme on everything*

Me: Hey, look at this, I finished that thing that you wanted me to do.

*Project partner looks at my screen*

Partner: Ugh, why do you use that dark theme? It really strains my eyes.

Me: :-|
That is one of the reasons I use dark themes

Coding Etiquette 101:

TURN THAT FUCKING DARK THEME ON!!!

When you are so lazy to make a dark theme so you just add warning.

I really want this GitHub theme!

Source : Twitter

Tired of staring at white background in github.
Searched for dark theme extension.
Guess what... My github is now dark.
FTW

when you see someone using a light theme

I found that pornhub has a feedback section...
This man (wanting white theme) was totally rekt.
See another one in the comments

Modify existing WordPress theme

People who say that dark themes are useless have never programmed at night

Finally removed elementary OS. (Random crashed and everything) and installed Ubuntu 18.04. It looks great.

The Guy in front of me is not using dark theme in IntelliJ :O

Babushka prefers dark theme.

How many of you use the dark theme on here?

YOUTUBE HAS A DARK THEME?

How long has this been going on and why didn't I know about it? In all cases, I just turned it on and it seems like the start of a good day.

Dear devRanters,

If you're going to screenshot any part of your feed or notifications: PLEASE switch to dark theme first. My optometrist has already advised me that my sight is starting to deteriorate because of these screenshots.

Thanks,
A very concerned ranter.

My fresh new look

Has anyone thought that Night is basically The Day On Dark Theme !

We need to release some well written articles in popular life style and women magazines that explain that "your child isn't hacking, it just likes dark themes" to finally end this "you're doing illegal things on your laptop, I'll make sure you go to jail!" bullshit of families, teachers and airport personal.

"Your students aren't hacking your schools most likely non existent important databases, they just know more than you."

If anybody right now is making an app/website, please make dark theme the default, everyone will love you.

I can't believe that there would be anyone that would choose the light theme.

Sun is shining too bright. I had to switch to a light theme 😭

Last Friday some company invited my project group (I am studying IT) to visit their offices.
After a little speech, they shew us the open spaces (dont feed the developers ;) ). After a few minutes, someone told me :
- "It's a fake, they are not true devs"
-"Why ?"
-" Seriously, who uses light theme to code?"

I had genuinely forgotten devRant had a light theme until I saw a rant about it. I went into settings and turned it on for about four seconds, screamed "MY EYES" and rejoined the dark side.

If you use a light theme for your IDE then...

I don’t, like, hate you.

But it don’t understand you.

Light theme..

Aka Airport Friendly Mode

Since every piece of software is developed by us, I sincerely request everyone to keep dark themes as the default theme.
Thanks.

Anything without a dark theme

How many converted to the Dark Side after working Sublime??

And, now, whenever we encounter the Light Side, we initially search the settings to turn it to Dark...

Use a light theme.

Everyone loves dark themes. I think I'm alone.

There are people in my workplace who ask "why did you set your IDE to dark theme?". How do I convince them that turning off the lights above my cubicle, lowering the screen brightness and having a dark theme is the best thing ever to concentrate?

Not to mention earbuds and a hoodie.

How do I convince them that once you turn to the Dark Side, there's no coming back?

Coworker: I wish excel had a dark theme.
Other coworker: it does just use this macro
Ctrl + A, Ctrl + A, Alt + HH + right arrow + enter.

I tried it... it selects every cell in the whole worksheet and changes the background color to black.

Guys, check out 'Global dark theme' add on on Firefox!
Works like charm.

Damn that new Black Theme is darker than my a**hole
I love it ❤️

Currently trying to write a dark theme solution for the security blog in pure JavaScript (no jquery).

This is way easier than I thought!

So my girlfriend was complaining about the lights late night. As a regular dev I code until about 2am in the morning.
So here I present the ultimate dark theme. Darkroom red. No additional light source required, just your monitor(s).

Happiness is after waiting for so long and finally buying this 👇

!rant
This black theme is so wonderful 😸

!rant
Dark theme is the best, I love dark themes.

Have guys ever thought that all te devs are vampires...
reason 1: Loves Darkness (dark theme)
reason 2: Most active during the night
reason 3: If the dev finds a capable victim then they can make them fellow dev.

Wear a pink glitter dress, choose the light theme of the IDE and be still taken seriously as a dev - then you truly mastered your art!

Shpuld I put on git?

Got a new phone and the theme here on DevRant is all light and shiny.

What is this madness!?

pretty sure you confirm that

Is firefox getting a dark theme option by default!?! (as settings option)

When people request you change your badass dark IDE theme to a white/light one during a presentation.

Not a bug...

Just joined the dark side of devRant. Once you go dark there is no going back.

Our teacher recommends us to use the bright (blue) Visual Studio 2015 theme...
...dafuq man, you wanna fry my eyes?

So, taking an entry course for Java.

Also, you people have corrupted me... Now I have switched everything to dark-themes.

I cleared data from app to restore notifications on my phone... forgot how much the white background hurts.

Was not expecting that

the different between responsive and non-responsive style

!rant
Finally did a clean reinstall of my six-year-old Macbook. Decided to change up the theme too, really liking the new 80s Outrun look. Running so smoothly too!

People fighting about spaces vs tabs and I'm here fighting about coding in light theme or dark theme.

Guess what

When you have seen everything 😂

UGH the Slack dark theme hack broke with the newest version of Slack. apparently the Slack devs have had a dark theme "on the to-do list" for over 2 years. COME THE FUCK ON SLACK, ITS A CSS FILE.

Who had also joined the Dark Side and feels like black hat?

Why is there no dark theme for Slack?

Just finished a new Arch install and decided to try out using a light theme. I think light themes get too much hate, this looks pretty good (colorscheme is gruvbox).

Am i the only one feeling the need for a facebook darktheme?

!rant

Went to see my brother today. Before I could say hi, I saw the following:

- Desktop, Windows playing video
- Thinkpad, Linux mint, Arduino IDE
- Arduino board with some sensors
- Coffee
- Complaining about light theme

I've only thought him a bit of C# and SQL. They grow up so fast :')

(Before today, I only knew he was gonna learn Python)

I had the privilege of showing my non dev roommate the beauty that is dark themes.

Notepad Windows 10 Project Neon Acrylic Theme Concept (German)

I didnt understnd why people hated white themes because the are too bright, not untill I looked out of the window today and my eyes were bleeding because the snow made everything as bright as if I would stare into the sun!

I like dark themes but I really don't like it when the black of the desktop theme is clashing with a different shade of black in the program

Today i had to set my theme to white for my listeners to see clearly what i was explaining.

My eyes hurt😭😭
Please make it stop😭

Nice. You got to love dark themes and icons!

Once you go black... ;D

I use a light theme on my terminal. Fight me.

I finaly managed to make a dark mode on slack desktop app! Still has some bugs (like scrollbar being white) but works well enough for me. If anyone is interested tell me in the comments 🙂

How i did it (Linux paths but should be the same process for Windows):

You can execute scripts in /usr/lib/slack/resources/app.asar.unpacked/src/static/index.js

Using that i figgured out that slack desktop is basically an actual webview to their website and some os hooks.

To edit the contents of the webview you can call `document.getElementsByClassName('WebViewContext')[0].executeJavaScript("alert(1)")`

Then i just simply packaged up some custom css to be loaded with JS.

Quite simple actually.

Using this method you can create all kinds of plugins for slack, so go wild!

Why not make the dark theme the default? Most of us developers use it for most things, so it seems appropriate to set the dark theme as default.

So I finally decided to get a theme for sublime (And other packages). I'm loving it. Post your IDE/Text editors or whatever you use to code.

Would you rather only be able to use Internet Explorer for the rest of your life or only use Light themes also for the rest of your life?

Terminal theme on DuckDuckGo : 😍

YouTube.com/new will allow you to enable a dark theme on YouTube!

Light theme only ide

I have gotten so used to code with dark themes (I even made Devrant from standard light to dark theme) that everytime i see someone with a light themed text editor, my eyes cry a bit.

Just joined DevRant's dark side.. So its true, when you go black you never go back!

Just joined the dark side.
These cookies taste so good.

I just noticed that the new Telegram update supports a dark theme 🙋

light UI theme
source: r/programminghumor

Just spent like 2 hours theming my Ubuntu 17.10 development VM, but lets be honest, the suru icon back with a unity8 gnome theme does look really fucking good!

Google should really add the dark theme to Android and all Google apps :/

The main reason I want to be an app developer is so that I can enable dark themes by default. That way people can see for themselves and the dark side can take over!

I feel like I was very productive today. At last, I found myself a nice dark theme for NetBeans based on IntelliJ darcula theme. I also found a perfect Java API 8 SE class for date manipulation called LocalDate.

Need a dark theme for eclipse?

WinKey +
Ctrl Alt i

Thank me later

Why the hell OS X doesn't have a developer friendly dark theme? :@ Puts so much strain on the eyes.

The original dark theme

Devrant slack theme 😀

Why the hate for light theme?

The whole freaking Internet is using light themes. Switching between dark and bright is tiring for the eyes. Simple as that.

Dark theme vs Light theme ranters
*** Round 1 ***
Light theme ranters attack

New theme for my personal website. What do you all think?

Joining the dark side and becoming darker more darker from darker darker

See you later 😂😂

Enjoying the new dark theme, it feels awesome =D thanks @dfox

Software Design Guide:
step 1: Add dark theme support
step 2: ...

I spend multiple hours on devrant a day, so I guess it's probably worth two bucks a month to me. So here goes.

🐧 all dark theme everything always 🐧

Solarized dark is the best thing that has ever happened the theme-world. I use it starting from terminal to all editors& IDEs.

Android O. Curse for dark theme guys 😢. Not to mention half the apps on my phone crash right now.
P.S. I hate these new backward compatible emojis too.

Dracula theme on any IDE.

Finally found motivation to get back to my side project game on Corona sdk :) you all know you should get back too (i'm fairly fresh programmer be gentle)

What's with all the light theme screenshots? It burns my eyes x_x

VS Code looks amazing with dark themes and vs code file icons. Using the theme by Kary Foundation and it is awesome.

When you're using an app with a dark theme for hours in completely darkness and then switch to one with a light theme

Finally customized gnome to osx like theme, but ouch light theme hurts my eye! Any other suggestion?

Got myself a new editor theme.

People who use light theme on their IDE, why? Why?

YT light vs. dark theme.

I’m enjoying the dark theme.

I was bored, so I made a quick devRantron theme based on the green, black and violet found in Maniac Mansion. Its just a quick work, but it works for me.

Here is the string: #000000, #000000, #6ad070, #000000, #6ad070, #d37eee

StackExchange sites need a dark theme. My eyes are burning every time I switch from my dark themed IDE to Stackoverflow or a similar site.
MSDN is doing it right.

I use light theme,
I don't give a damn !

While working, I suddenly noticed my own reflection on monitor
*starts thinking*
"I should get a haircut"
*starts coding again*
😐

The first time a dark theme made me sad.

i feel smart now. i waited until night to make the dark theme!

I really hate when I have to go to a colleuges desk to help when they need some troubleshooting . It is not because I don't want to help. It is just because of their light themed IDE.

Just switched to dark theme in my code editor from a custom Grey color palette.

I dunno, it feels... evil? Like it wants me to commit the overlord of a bug I just wrote.

I wish EVERY SINGLE paperwork is printed in black paper with white ink for sake of our eyes.

Use light theme. Enough said.

These colors are hypnotizing! I love brackets.io

Recently I switched my phone and installed devRant in new one. After I logged into my account, I was like "what the fuck just happened to devRant, where the fuck am I ?"
* then I changed the theme and everything was fine.

Dark theme for a day, keeps glasses 👓 away!!

DevRant in black theme is probably the best thing since sliced bread 😍

You know it is time you get a real life when you search for "Windows explorer dark theme"

How much money would it take for you to switch theme in all ides/apps/etc to light theme (or to dark theme if you use light already) forever?

Sometimes I ask myself why dark theme isn’t the default setting on apps. I mean, light theme WRECKS YOUR EYES!!! How can the common way of designing is to make light theme default or JUST NOT HAVE A DARK THEME!!!!! It’s so unnatural!!!! Anyway...

Hello dark theme my old friend
I'll never go to light theme again

/* continue the song */

My personal playlist of music, can't live without it.

So I use Visual Studio with the light (blue) theme, and wanted to try the dark theme. Now VS just crashes when I try to change it back to the light theme. Someone really wants to keep me at the dark side I guess... Fml

I love this update!

How do I set the theme to life to be dark?

Android Oreo went to the light side.

Why would they do that?

The dark side is much more fun 👹

I hope they add an option later on....

Switched to Dark theme just NOW
IT'S LOOKING REALLY SEXY

Just found the DevRant dark theme, and its awesome.

If(Theme == "Dark"){
$upvote = "++";
}else{
$comment = $_POST['comment'];
}

POLL:

light? Or dark?

What's your problem with the light theme instead of the dark one in a software?

Very good algo of devRant 😂😂😂

Mood swings are:
When you get bored of black theme and change to light theme.

And later changing back to the good old dark theme

I made a quick little devRant theme for the vivaldi browser :)

How can people work with those surface of sun level bright white IDE themes? Like, do you wear your sunglasses at home too?

I use light mode. I am a rebel.

Dark theme is important!

Today I noticed that my colleague is using Light Theme and it's pissing me off. I don't know why but I am really obsessed with it since this morning. I don't feel like talking to her now.

Maybe she's trying to torture me. That's so cruel.

Double dark theme!

Just changed everything (Shell, IDE, ... ) to a dark theme, my eyes hurted a lot

To all dark theme lovers:
If you want an IRL dark theme just remove all the windows.

All my friends make fun of me because of a rumor I watch porn… I'm only on private for the dark theme…

Messing about with inline functions in regards to performance. In general, when am I supposed to use them?

I just registered to GitHub. (Don't be surprised, I'm just a 16 yo student.) Is there a dark theme for it?

Right, I get that you prefer light theme. Understood it the first time you told me, even though I've never asked you. But why the hell do you feel the urge to whine and whinge about it literally every fucking time you stroll behind me and see my beautiful dark-and-pastel-colored ide?

Developers love sleeping.
Because they love dark themes.

How many projects do you have going at anyone time?

Me: I'm currently working on two laravel and a WordPress theme.

Fucking finaly I'm back on devRant after my phone decided to die during the weekend. But why the fuck do I get a light theme again? @dfox, could you save the preferences in the profile? Or at least display the options on first start? :*

I wish you could just make chrome into dark theme such that ALL the websites become dark..!
It'd be so much easier on the eyes...!

Just a friendly heads up that you can find plugins for any browser that'll give any web page a dark theme!

I like both the light theme and dark theme.

Fear me.

I have a confession to make, I use a light theme, and I like it.

There. I said it. You can all hate me now.

It helps me to focus tho, as I use a dark UI theme. It really brings out the code.

Microsoft finally makes Windows Explorer dark after 3 years! I can rest peacefully today.

Ok, I'm becoming more and more nerdy. It began with Powerline and OhMyZsh, now I'm working on a color palette for my editor.
I mean, any color theme bugs me, it feels like a need to create my own...

Ok, im happy with how my desktop on my laptop is looking now

Hmmmm..... Dark or light?

When you enable Dark Theme, now feel like a rock star! 🤘

Became a supporter of devrant. The dark theme is a visual treat.

Since half of the apps that currently exist on Android are white themed, and I'm desperate to get dark themes, I've got a solution.... Invert colors and set all apps to white theme.

light theme 🤮
dark theme 😌👉