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[Frumple]

I don’t know why people love whitespace so much, I’ve never heard of dark mode causing problems, so why isn’t dark mode the default?

Mostly, it's attention grabbing... partially due to the stress it's putting on your eyes. When your goal is to draw attention and you value that more than you value the health of whoever's on the other end (something something capitalism mumble), you prefer whitespace.

... the rest of it's largely just tradition, transitioning practices built in non-digital environments into digital ones. Offline, lighter materials were traditionally (and still are) much cheaper, so it was tremendously preferred, and most design principles just kinda' went with what was already done.

Best practices for digital environments are still developing, and they're often at odds with traditional design which has incredibly different material concerns, basically. Just about everyone that actually uses computers to any meaningful extent is well aware whitespace is the eye devil, but the implications of that are still sinking in on a lot of levels... plus some people are entirely on board with making deals with the devil, blech.

[King Zultan]

Makes me wonder how I was able to stand using a laptop on full brightness while looking at this forum with the default backgrounds, haven't done that in a few years and I have no idea how I could stand it back in the day.