Forum: Author Hangout

I added auto-dark-mode. So if your system is set to dark mode, the system will switch colours. It seems you have a custom colour where you didn't set a text color. What background color are you using?

Despite the claims of 'dark mode' screen features, research shows that the eyes experience less eye strain when you use regular lighting, so that's what I have set. Thus, the screen itself is mostly white, while the text is now very pale gray, while the 'visited sites' highlighting is an very odd shade of pale pink. It's hard to read the story/chapter titles, much less read more than one or two words at a time.

But, as I said, I simply plan to avoid reading SOL after dark in the future, as it's too much work cutting and pasting every single chapter.

Is there ANY way to disable your new 'auto-dark-mode'? I didn't see anything in my screen setting concerning it, but I'll check again, just to make sure.

Despite the claims of 'dark mode' screen features, research shows that the eyes experience less eye strain when you use regular lighting

The problem is, I've heard optometrists and their cohorts that I can't recall the name of right now actually get the science wrong. They actually blamed the 'blue' light from the screens.
The problem is actually evolutionary in source - the Mk. 1 Eyeball registers red wavelengths as indication of low light conditions (since dawn/dusk, and (low)firelight all contain significant red wavelengths) and thus trigger pupil dilation, which increases the eye's sensitivity to light (while blue wavelengths are more prone to occur during midday, which would normally result in pupil contraction). The problem is, 'white' screen light is actually full intensity red light (with added high intensity light). Many 'dark' mode settings actually use a fair bit of red light. For years, I've utilized a teal-scale palette, eliminating reds. As someone who's spent hundreds of hours per week dealing with a computer screen, the reduction in eye fatigue and headaches by the shift is noticeable.

The problem is, I've heard optometrists and their cohorts that I can't recall the name of right now actually get the science wrong. They actually blamed the 'blue' light from the screens.
The problem is actually evolutionary in source

You're right, bk69, as those are the studies I was thinking of, but I couldn't remember the details of.

By the way, how exactly does one switch to a 'teal-based' palette on their displays?

Custom definition of color choices, and specifications from #000000 to #00FFFF for those colors.
Software usually overrides user color choices, although Open/LibreOffice allow a great deal of customization. But a lot of commercial software even ignores 'high-visibility' color palettes.

Custom definition of color choices, and specifications from #000000 to #00FFFF for those colors.
Software usually overrides user color choices, although Open/LibreOffice allow a great deal of customization. But a lot of commercial software even ignores 'high-visibility' color palettes.

Actually, Ernest provided the answer later on in the thread, letting me know that I had to make the adjustment in the CSS, which I hadn't considered before. You can apply CSS definitions to browsers, eBooks and Word files, so that should solve everything.

My 'how do I' inquire wasn't that I didn't know how to change colors, I just didn't know where to make the changes.

But thanks, I'm glad everyone's looking out for me.

Thanks, Lazeez. I noticed that, after switching machines, that the stories came back, so I assume you fixed the setting for me. Never knew about the shift-CNTRL key trick.

Ernest, don't worry, I'm the only odd-ball who finds 'night-mode' annoying, so while I DO have it turned on, I have it set so the pages in my browser are while with a black background, as I find it irritating (and hard to decipher) when reading in 'hard mode'. Alas, when you refuse to go along with the masses, you gotta expect to get run over occasionally! I'm guessing that I'm the ONLY SOL reader to have those particular settings set up.

don't worry, I'm the only odd-ball who finds 'night-mode' annoying,

Nothing wrong with that, I'm the odd-ball who likes dark mode by default, any time of the day.

And I never like dark-mode.

I use the Mate desktop on Linux with the BlackMATE theme. Most applications follow the color rules perfectly, even Firefox. Unfortunately the web pages never do. That's why I don't use the dark theme on SOL, it's still Beta and that shows like the problem Vincent mentioned.

Back when I was reading stories posted to alt.sex.stories, I read them on a black background with green text. (on a wyse75 terminal)

Back when I was reading stories posted to alt.sex.stories, I read them on a black background with green text. (on a wyse75 terminal)

A long, long time ago, back in the days when I was still learning Cobol, I started with that awful phosphor green on black too. Fortunately not much later we got a few of the first screens with a dirty orange (euphemismly called amber) on black.

That's why I don't use the dark theme on SOL, it's still Beta and that shows like the problem Vincent mentioned.

The problem wasn't that it was in Beta, but that I'd never seen a warning. All my screens went from perfectly legible to utter illegible from one moment to the next. I could still read the pages I hadn't updated yet, but was forced into playing games to read the other SOL pages (I was avidly following one particular storyline at the time).

And that confuses the system. One would assume that you would want dark mode when you turn dark mode on in your computer.

I never explicitly turned it on, but the Mac systems default to 'dark mode' for the screens, which I don't object to, since it doesn't contain long segments of text. It's the webpages, like on SOL, that annoy me when they suddenly switch to dark mode at an arbitrary time of day (regardless of how much light is or isn't in the room at the time).

On my computer I prefer the basic or day mode. In general I don't like the Dark Mode, but for reading on my tablet I have an Inverse Colour html CSS I use that has a dark background but isn't a full dark mode.

That makes sense. While I've often monkeyed with CSS for my ebooks, I've never considered adjusting my (various) browsers to suit my reading pleasure (other than turning dark-mode off entirely).