The PagerDuty mobile app supports dark mode, but the web interface still uses a bright white theme. Why hasn't a web dark mode been added yet? Staring at that screen during a 3 a.m. incident is unnecessarily harsh, and it seems like the interface could at least follow the browser or operating system's preferred color scheme.
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Until native support arrives, the Dark Reader browser extension is a solid workaround. It works in both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers and can also handle other bright web apps.
That helps in the short term, but the interface really should offer its own theme options. A built-in dark mode would be more reliable and could avoid odd colors or contrast issues caused by forcing a theme externally.
They may be concerned about breaking older incident pages or embedded third-party components. Even so, supporting the browser or operating system’s prefers-color-scheme setting on the main interface would be a reasonable first step.
Exactly. I’ll use the extension for now, but I still think dark mode belongs in the product itself.