Title: In the past 2-3 years basically every major, modern piece of software I use has added dark mode. Everything from macOS to the Google Maps app has added a dark mode, and many websites have a toggle as well. GitHub has added like 3 different dark modes!<p>If you&#x27;ve ever worked on a mobile app or website before you know that going from one theme (light mode) to two themes (light &#x2F; dark) is a huge task. You have to make all the colors in your app super generic. And it&#x27;s even harder than that, because you can&#x27;t just switch colors one-for-one. In a well-designed dark mode you have to rethink a lot of UI concepts (mostly around light, shadow, and contrast) in order to make things look nice.<p>I am not opposed to dark mode at all, I think it often looks nice, but as someone who has spent some time in big companies I am really shocked at the level of engineering resources that have been spent on this relatively frivolous feature. Most engineering teams have a huge backlog of features&#x2F;bugs to fix. Dark mode has somehow made the top of the stack.<p>So I&#x27;m asking HN. Have you worked on a major app that added dark mode? Who within your organization pushed to prioritize it? How much time did it take and was it harder&#x2F;easier than you expected?
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