Petition for Dark Mode on WaniKani

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I know those who like Dark Mode have clamored for it for a while, but I don’t know if it’s on the radar for the WK team. Your best bet, besides this thread, is to email hello@wanikani.com :smiley::+1:

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YES! Dark mode will be so cool!!

WE WANT DARKMODE
WE WANT DARKMODE
WE WANT DARKMODE
WE WANT DARK MODE
WE WANT DARKMODE
WE WANT DARKMODE
WE WANT DARKMODE
WE WANT DARK MODE

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We can get tips for how to pressure them into prioritizing dark mode here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-63150

There’s also the Breeze Dark theme which is better supported by userscripts

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My guess is that the WaniKani team first wants to convert all pages to Tailwind CSS and maybe afterwards use its dark mode support to offer a dark mode for WaniKani. Considering that they started with Tailwind CSS at the end of last year and until now only finished parts of the lesson page, this might take a while.

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Wanikani already has dark mode through userstyles.

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Dark mode always reminds me of 1990s amateur GeoCities web sites.

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I want dark mode too. Have everything in it.

Flaming Durtles the WaniKani android app has dark mode. That’s what I use.

I get so sleepy when doing reviews, it’s like counting sheep for me. So personally, incinerating my retinas is actually welcome. But as others have mentioned, there’s plugins that exist already to make this happen.

If you use opera gx as your browser you can force dark and it looks pretty good with this website. I definitely recommend it because I focus so much better when studying with that dark page. But they 100% need to integrate that feature.

I’m pretty sure there are chrome extensions you can get that make light pages dark as well, I can’t vouch for their quality tho.

@Wanikani Feel free to implement this theme into Wanikani. the code is messy though as I am not coder.

Welcome back to the forums! The account you tagged has been inactive for 10 years

Imo GX’s dark mode looks hot garbo on WK, like it does on most sites:

Text also becomes harder to read in some places:

Ouch… the extension Dark Reader’s actually looks pretty decent

Dear WK. Yes, we need Dark Mode urgently please. The bright white colors are really hurting my eyes. That might be because i’m suffering from dry eye, but nowadays a lot of people suffer from that. Also, when working on a big monitor, it’s even worse.

Some web extensions exist but dont work that well. Please give us a Dark Mode !!

Lots of people seem to like the various dark-mode scripts, like Wanikani Breeze Dark.

Beyond that… and I’m not trying to be flippant… have you tried turning down your monitor’s brightness? If the brightness of everyday things around you doesn’t hurt your eyes, then a monitor set to similar brightness shouldn’t either.

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Casual reminder to people to avoid using bright screens in poorly lit rooms/with the lights off.

May not may not be relevant, please protect your eyes people!

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The only light I want to see when I’m using a computer is 1000 nits from my display

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