Darkness

Darkness

Dark themes for Google, Facebook and more

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Darkness is a Chrome extension that provides dark themes for popular websites
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What do you think? …

Lior Grossman
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
Rotem Yakir
@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 :)
Lior Grossman
@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
Srikar
@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!
Lior Grossman
@srikarg_ Great suggestion, will definitely consider it going forward.
Charles Kunene
@liorgrossman Thanks for this. Can I use it on Firefox as well?
Alexander Isora 🦄
Personally I don't like black themes: it makes my eyes tired. Yet, my IDE is all black because I want to feel like a hacker Neo when coding 😂
Lior Grossman
@sweetiebelka Seems legit :)
Pallav Agarwal
How about a safari extension? Would love that...
Lior Grossman
@pallav_agarwal Currently no Safari extension, but that's on the roadmap