It has change into onerous to foretell what goes on within the thoughts of X (previously generally known as Twitter) proprietor Elon Musk ever since he muscled a complete rebranding marketing campaign onto the platform inside simply three days. And the profitable maneuvering of the transfer has maybe made the billionaire much more ‘unhinged’, at the least that’s what social media is insinuating. Yesterday, he introduced in a tweet, that going ahead, the platform will solely assist darkish mode, bringing an instantaneous fear to all those that don’t desire it since studying light-colored textual content on a darkish background may be tough generally. However Musk mentioned, “It’s higher in each method”.
On July 27, Musk tweeted. replying to an unrelated quote retweet about whether or not altering the blue tick to the black tick (a fan request) wouldn’t make sense in darkish mode, and mentioned, “This platform will quickly solely have “darkish mode”. It’s higher in each method”. The tweet has now gone viral with 6054 likes and over 2000 retweets.
X to solely assist darkish mode
Twitter for the time being helps each mild mode and darkish mode, and a 3rd setting of dim mode that makes the background darkish blue as a substitute of black and is seen as a middle-ground possibility between conserving the sunshine mode and going black. But when Musk’s phrases are something to go by, quickly, the sunshine and the dim possibility is not going to exist anymore, and customers will see a everlasting darkish mode.
The consumer interface (UI) change may be outlandish, however it’s going to align with the present X brand, which can also be white textual content on black background. It stands out a bit on a white background however blends fairly effectively with the darkish mode turned on.
Nonetheless, the transfer has not gone over too effectively with all customers, and a few have even complained that darkish mode makes it harder for them to learn textual content.
One consumer mentioned, “Actually @elonmusk, PLEASE rethink. X will probably be a lot much less accesible for thus many individuals with dyslexia and/or visible impairments”. One other added to the purpose and mentioned, “Having darkish mode solely will trigger a loss in accessibility for some customers. Particularly with those who have astigmatism (halation with white textual content on black background) or Irlen Syndrome. 1 in three individuals have astigmatism”.
One consumer provided a center floor and mentioned, “Defaulting to darkish mode is a good suggestion. However leaving the selection to mild mode is preferable. It is higher for the view”.
