Fulton Browne

Posted on Mar 31, 2020

They did it! Stack overflow has a dark mode!

#watercooler #news

FINALLY just like I asked for (can't find the comment but I did ask for it)

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Ben Halpern • Mar 31 '20

just like I asked for

lol

Madza • Apr 1 '20

I asked too via do-not-reply@stackoverflow.com

Paweł Ludwiczak • Apr 1 '20

I'm a bit biased but I highly recommend reading Aaron's blog post about implementing dark mode on SO: stackoverflow.blog/2020/03/31/buil...

Also, this:

Hynes

@hellohynes

If y'all understood the utter mess that happens over 10 years when you have 140+ inter-dependent CSS files (but still somehow independent in the worst ways), you would understand how monumental this is.

Congrats @aaronshekey and @StackOverflow 🙌🎉 twitter.com/aaronshekey/st…

13:01 PM - 31 Mar 2020

Aaron Shekey @aaronshekey
I shipped dark mode on https://t.co/b9KZ51PH3F today. Sorry it took so long. 🦇 https://t.co/ef78rOFGyR

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Ben Halpern • Mar 31 '20

@pp is already is kind of sometimes that we have to support these themes at all. I don't know if I could get buy-in for fully custom backgrounds and text colors. 😋

Shreenath Ranganathan • Mar 31 '20

Ain't this the shizz

Christopher Kruse • Apr 1 '20

The shadow release is that they've also moved their backend to. NET Core:

Nick Craver

@nick_craver

2 things:
1. Stack Overflow now has dark mode: stackoverflow.blog/2020/03/30/int… - after dropping IE 11 support, we could use CSS3 variables and make it all possible.

2. All Stack Overflow servers are running on .NET Core. We anticipate merging to master tomorrow.

It's launch day y'all.

17:17 PM - 30 Mar 2020

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They did it! Stack overflow has a dark mode!

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