Open sourcing the code base might help. I'm sure there would be no shortage of pull requests to improve all sorts of things on this site that could be improved without too much effort. Plenty of more than qualified readers here. Of course that would increase dang's workload, which I can imagine is not something he's after. But he could fix that by delegating to some trusted people.

But, with a site this big, any change is going to make someone unhappy. So, I can appreciate his hands off approach here.

So we just need someone to take the time to re-colour news.css, and he'll pop it in there under a prefers dark css rule?

It seems a bunch of people have tried it. Some notes:

* Why have people given it a blue-ish tint? HN if anything has a warm tint. I think a neutral grey is most acceptable.

* People that are suggesting high contrast for mobile: On mobile you have a plethora of apps.

* People that are suggesting high contrast for accessibility: People with vision problems likely have some other thing to make it high contrast.

Jeez has it been a year since that comment already? Time flies.

Gotta love the “alligator energy” that kept approximately 10 lines of CSS from being added in the months since that comment. This isn’t rocket science