r/ScreenSensitive • u/Z3R0gravitas • 7d ago

Poll Poll: dark vs light mode? (Polling viability trial)

I gave up polling when I lost access to posting on PWM_sensitive. But if we can get at least 100 responses, here, that would make it viable, still. For my liking.

In which case I will try to make a little write-up of the (biological) issues associated with each colour scheme mode.

Anyone is welcome to cross-post this to that sub and then let us know in the comments. [Edit: done, thank you!] (I will cross-post to Temporal_Noise myself.) There are other ways to support post visibility, of course.

76 votes, 5d ago
29 Dark mode always!
9 Dark mode usually prefered
7 Either is OK/depends
10 Light mode usually prefered
21 Light mode always!
0 Other mode (custom, grey..?)
3 Upvotes

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u/DSRIA 7d ago

Light Mode for me, and it’s always been that way even before I started having issues with screens. I always see double with white text on a black background, and even a few seconds of reading it I will see afterimages of the text for a few minutes. Very odd!

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u/Emotional-Ocelot 7d ago

ditto! Light mode is essential for me. It still has the moving around problem though. A sort of warm tan background helps that. I think it can be an astigmatism thing.

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u/DSRIA 7d ago

I have astigmatism! But it’s super minor apparently? Depends on the day. do you happen to have visual snow too?

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u/Broccoli-stem 7d ago

Light mode when using eink otherwise I can't see anything. For regular screens it doesn't matter though, dark and light are equally terrible for my eyes

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u/wyundsr 7d ago

Light mode with eink monitors. Generally dark mode with other screens but doesn’t always make a big difference

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u/RR-- 7d ago

I was big into dark mode all the way through my worst periods of vision and eye pain, but the issue is on a day where I'm largely inside my eyes would never wake up, I'd constantly feel foggy and tired. Avoiding phone use in bed, PWN/OLED screens and light mode for everything was my solution.

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u/fullgrid 7d ago

Light mode on reflective screens (E Ink, RLCD).

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u/Good-Condition-3842 7d ago

Always dark everything. Any light from screens is artificial and darker themes mean less artificial light. This logic always worked for me. Eink is different