Darker Medium

Read Medium stories with happy eyes

10 followers

Read Medium stories with happy eyes

10 followers

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Darker Medium applies a customizable dark theme to *all* medium formatted stories. You can customize the header background, main accent color, highlight color and link styles separately from the option menu. No matter the domain, if a site is using Medium, it will get a dark theme; that is the main advantage over Stylus and Stylish.

Launch tags:Browser Extensions•Chrome Extensions•Open Source

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Stylus

Maker

Hey Product Hunters! I created this extension when I kept discovering new Medium sites and finally got tired of adding new domains into the Stylus manager. I started out with the "Medium Dark Grey" userstyle, but ended up starting over from scratch. I hope this extension makes your eyes as happy as mine! I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts about it! Update: Sorry, I don't own any Apple devices, so there isn't a Safari extension available. The code is all open source, so if someone wants to create one, go for it! Update 2: Security concerns? This browser extension does not collect any personal data. The only data stored is the user style preferences (the state of the extension, five colors & an underline setting). Absolutely nothing else is shared or tracked; it's not using Google Analytics.

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9yr ago

Summit Day Planner

@wowmottie Looks great, thanks! Now if only they had dark mode on iOS. It’s the only reading app I use that has to be white (Feedly, Pocket, Blinkist, iBooks, Kindle, etc). Now I can just use Darker Medium to read on my laptop. 😎

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9yr ago

Nightlight does this for all websites.

https://www.gofake1.net/projects...

Pros:

It makes medium darker

Cons:

support safari

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9yr ago

Stylus

Maker

I've never used Nightlight, but it looks like a generic method to darken websites. While it is nice for overall browsing, this extension specifically targets and styles Medium stories. Try it out, you might like it! :D

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9yr ago

Nice, I've been using the official "Dark Mode" on the Medium app, and even that has issues with the UI, such as some things being invisible because they forgot to make them white instead of black/dark grey. I wonder how reliable this extension is in that area.

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9yr ago

Stylus

Maker

@theashtube I've spent a few weeks using it before release. I haven't written any stories, so I only briefly checked the editor. As for all the other Medium story domains, I haven't checked them all. Some sites are using very specific css selectors along with an `!important` flag which will override the styles in the extension. I've overridden as many of those as I've found. Either way, if you encounter an unstyled element, page or problem, open an issue (https://github.com/Mottie/Darker...) and I'll see what I can do.

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9yr ago

@wowmottie Thanks Mot, sounds great!

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9yr ago