>I think it's fairly reasonable to be irritated people are pushing software based on vibes/feels.

You are going to HATE to find out about night-mode in the browser

To be fair, I should have said something like "claiming software has a health benefit based on vibes/feels". I personally prefer the look of night/dark mode (or whatever you call it) in apps and the browser, but I'm not going to claim it makes me healthier or improves my sleep or whatever.

If you just like how something looks, that's fine, but there's a difference between "I like how X looks" (subjective opinion) than "X helps me sleep better" (difficult to prove but objectively true or false).

Edit: Changed this in my original message as it seems multiple people got confused by my prior poor wording.

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thatcat 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not about how it looks aesthetically, you can feel your eye muscles release tension when you go from light to dark mode.

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0x1ch 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

End of the day, dark mode would've been totally ignored if there wasn't a perceivable benefit, placebo or not. People want to make everything difficult, I guess.

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IAmBroom 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As someone more trained in science than software, the phrase "you can feel..." is suspicious, even if it's my own feelings.

Not invalid; suspicious.

	▲	nandomrumber 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		As a complete psychopath: If I put your hand in a vice and do the vice up to the point where you start saying you can feel the pressure… Yes, of course I’m going to be suspicious. Gaslighting doesn’t exist, you made that up because you’re fucking crazy. /s