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Paper doesn't emit light. It's not even similar, let alone the same thing.
I use an ereader with black on white, but the lack of an option to use dark mode on a screen guarantees I never consider touch your app again. It's eye cancer.
It has nothing to do with light.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dark-mode-chrome-android-ios-science
https://www.androidauthority.com/dark-mode-1046425/
https://zapier.com/blog/dark-mode-bad-productivity/
It's literally 100% exclusively about where the light is coming from.
Combined, those articles link to one actual bit of research where they tested in a dark room with participants 6 fucking feet away from a 24 inch dim screen. That's not even sort of representative of the real world.
You’re wrong. I suggest you deal with it.
But... all of those have to do with light (and are mostly clickbaity articles that do admit in the body of the thing that dark mode does reduce eye strain, limit battery drain on most handheld devices and lower the impact of blue light). When your big argument against dark mode is "well, it's less eye-searingly uncomfortably, so it may induce you to use an application too much" I think us dark mode defenders can rest our case.
I have to drop out of this discussion because apparently, according to some people here- simply talking about it makes me butthurt.
You see, I’m not allowed to disagree with it. So I’m going to just not use dark mode in silence.
And here I was hoping this place would be different from Reddit.
Nah, you can absolutely just... prefer light mode. Besides this being the "unpopular opinion" magazine (which is to say, we're all here to be called out on our unpopular hills to die on, it's part of the fun), the colors you use for your websites are up to you. The only objective thing that matters here is that having a toggle available is better than not having a toggle and being locked to one or the other.
Buuuut, it's also true that the articles you're referencing are pretty bad and don't quite say what you seem to say they say. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. I'm not annoyed at you for that. I'm mostly annoyed at the way media misreports scientific studies, honestly.