Twitter's Desktop Dark Mode Just Got Even Darker for Some

[MacRumors]

If you opened Twitter in your desktop browser today and something seemed different in the website's appearance, you're not wrong. In a change to its usual dark blue tint, Twitter is switching its desktop dark theme to a pure black.

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Twitter has told The Verge that the change is part of an update that's rolling out to make the Twitter website respond to the light and dark mode settings of your operating system (although this didn't work when we tested it).

If your Twitter experience switched from dark mode to light overnight, however, that's down to a bug, according to the company. This may have happened to you if you had Twitter set to Dim or Lights Out mode but your OS was set to light mode.

If you miss the old dark blue, you can bring it back using Twitter's Dim display setting. You can find Twitter's desktop display options by clicking More in the left-hand menu and selecting Display. You'll see radio buttons for Default, Dim, and Lights Out modes, as well as options to change the accent color from the default blue. Twitter should remember your color and background settings after you've selected them.

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[jgbr]

Twitter is a mess...meanwhile....'Lets change the settings of how the site looks in a browser'... that will make everyone happy, forget the edit button.

 

[flowsy]

Before the update it changed with the system settings, now I get blinded every night until I manually change it.

 

[Spacetime Anomaly]

Social media: Making the world a darker place.

 

[jwhite9185]

Eh? I've been using the pure black lights out mode for the best part of a year now?

 

[Secondempire]

You can also press g and then d to bring up these display settings

 

[LFC2020]

That’s real innovation right there. ?‍♂️ Any real tech news to report. ?

 

[McG2k1]

Twitter has been pretty dark for a very long time.

 

[Seanm87]

Why not just use the Mac app?

 

[shapesinaframe]

Eh? I've been using the pure black lights out mode for the best part of a year now?

Same. I guess we were in the test group.

 

[unfunfionn]

Twitter desktop and web is a case study in misinterpreting ‘mobile first’ as ‘mobile best’.

 

[matrix07]

Instagram still doesn't have Dark Mode. ?

 

[macintoshmac]

How is this news? I have that option for over a year.

 

[grantew1]

Twitter is a dumpster fire.

 

[ArPe]

Twitter is just hinting that Dorsey’s evil mind is darker than vanta black and that’s why social media is the way it is.

 

[DotCom2]

I went back to "Dim". Much prefer it over solid black.

 

[zorinlynx]

The switching spontaneously to light mode is a long-standing bug, been around for at least a few months. Usually happens when you reload the page.

I just wish Apple and/or Twitter would fix the "Significant memory" warning that's always appearing on the site. Even reloading doesn't make it go away half the time, and often you dismiss it and it comes right back.

The worst thing is that it's not even using that much memory and is running fine; the warning is annoying as hell.

 

[zorinlynx]

Why not just use the Mac app?

It's buggy as hell.

So far I've experienced:

- Weird text-typing behavior when composing tweets (this has gotten better with Big Sur but still happens occasionally)
- Low resolution images when dragging photos from the Photos app to tweet them (website posts them full resolution).
- Partially hangs when you try to add an image from a tweet to Photos. (You can't close the image anymore until you restart the app, image never gets added to Photos)
- General UI glitchiness here and there. Sometimes scrolling the timeline gets wonky.

Overall it's a lousy experience compared to the website. I've reported some bugs but nobody seems to be listening.

 

[Capeto]

Eh? I've been using the pure black lights out mode for the best part of a year now?

Pretty sure I have too

 

[Techwatcher]

Had this option for like a year. Lights Out mode is nice.

 

[Polyphonie]

Twitter has been pretty dark for a very long time.

@beaglefacts

Depends on who you follow. It’s just like Reddit (which depends on the group you subscribe to). It’s easier to blame the internet than your own proclivities.

 

[CaTOAGU]

Meanwhile any attempt to use Google Search in a room with subdued lighting still results in bleeding eyeballs.

 

[anson42]

I went back to "Dim". Much prefer it over solid black.

Same here. Dim is less contrasty for the site. My entire desktop is dark mode all the time but dark doesn't always need to mean black

 

[Td1970]

I dont get you guys. If Twitter is so bad why use it. I have never used it. Use zero social media now. Other than a few forums

 

[coolfactor]

Why not just use the Mac app?

Yup. Twitter is one of those social media sites that just doesn't feel right to use in website form (to me). Needs to be an app. Too bad the official Twitter Mac app sucks potatoes! But gotta use it to stay connected.