Lior, the creator of Darkness here.
Darkness was created as a result of my personal pain (literally pain - I mean it).
Working 15 hours a days in front of a computer screen, I found that prolonged and repetitive use of bright websites cause eye strain and fatigue.
While a lot of software has the ability to switch from bright to dark themes, most big websites don't.
That's why I created "Darkness" - allowing you to "darken" your websites. It currently supports Facebook, Google, YouTube*, and Gmail* and more to come soon.
Darkenss significantly reduces eye strain and fatigue, and eliminates the annoying bright glare at night.
As opposed to simply inverting all website colors, which often looks ugly, I've decided to work with designers to professionally skin the websites.
I hope you'll enjoy Darkness as much as I do. I'd be happy to answer your questions, please reply below!
Come to the dark side,
Lior Grossman
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@liorgrossman Hey, it's really looks great. However, I could only use it on Google and Facebook. I understand that a "man gotta eat" but paying 5$ seems very steep to get 2 more site especially when there are 1000 more sites that you could add. I believe that getting 10+ sites for free and paying 5$ to get 100+ more seems more reasonable. But hey, that is just my opinion. Nevertheless, you got my upvote :)
@rotemthegolfer Thanks for the feedback! 100% fair point.
Developing Darkness is challenging, since a designer has to work for a few days to skin each any every website (unlike some other solutions, we're not inverting the website's colors, but we build hand-crafted unique CSS for each website).
Therefore, offering Darkness for 100+ websites seems unlikely at the moment, and it would take years (unless we go for a Kickstarter project).
We do intend, however, to skin more websites by popular demand. Several users already expressed their interest in Darkness for Redit, Google Docs, and even the New Tab page.
This will not happen in one day, though, but will happen gradually as Darkness grows and we can generate enough revenue ($5 is not a lot, and the vast majority of our users are free users) to afford skinning more and more websites.
Best,
Lior
@liorgrossman Perhaps you can open source the extension's CSS skin files so other developers can help you enable this extension on different websites. I would love to help out if you did this!
I tried this a couple of weeks ago. While it isn't for me (I have eye issues that make looking at bright text against a dark background difficult) I can say that this is very well done and well worth a look. As for me, it's back to f.lux for my night time reading.
@frassmith Thank you for the kind feedback Fraser.
Anything we can do to make Darkness better? Maybe a different color scheme for different types of eye issues / visual impairments?
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@liorgrossman Good question because, I always use a dark theme in my editor while I'm working. I guess it's more an issue with the contrast rather than darkness per-se.
For example, my daily driver for code editing is Visual Studio Code and in recent weeks I seem to have settled on (get the irony) the Facebook theme. which has text in varying shades of blue against a dark background.
It's really bright pinpoints of light (e.g. characters) that seem to work badly with my wonky eyes.
@frassmith LOL - Facebook theme for code editing... that's a first :)
So, let me see if I understand, you prefer theme with a dark background, and lower contrast? (so that characters aren't so brightly lid?)
Lior, the creator of Darkness here.
Darkness was created as a result of my personal pain (literally pain - I mean it).
Working 15 hours a days in front of a computer screen, I found that prolonged and repetitive use of bright websites cause eye strain and fatigue.
While a lot of software has the ability to switch from bright to dark themes, most big websites don't.
That's why I created "Darkness" - allowing you to "darken" your websites. It currently supports Facebook, Google, YouTube*, and Gmail* and more to come soon.
Darkenss significantly reduces eye strain and fatigue, and eliminates the annoying bright glare at night.
As opposed to simply inverting all website colors, which often looks ugly, I've decided to work with designers to professionally skin the websites.
I hope you'll enjoy Darkness as much as I do. I'd be happy to answer your questions, please reply below!
Come to the dark side,
Lior Grossman
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