“It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong”

  • David GerardOPMA
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    63 months ago

    so WP Dark Mode requires a bit of kludging and most themes are frankly slapdash, so it always requires kludging. I’m happy dark mode works as well as it does.

    • @froztbyte
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      73 months ago

      nod

      I ran into some fedi post somewhere recently where someone showed some neat all-css hacks (for doing this), and I’m sure I have the tab or bookmark somewhere but … going to be hard to find atm. and flipside is probably it won’t work on the wp modes anyway because wp is of course utterly fucking cursed

      • David GerardOPMA
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        83 months ago

        all software sucks, but WordPress particularly sucks

        it started as blogging software, then overwhelmingly its users were business site designers, so that’s who’s paying Automattic

        hence the shitty Gutenberg block editor

        the substrate of blogging functionality hasn’t actually been broken, but …

        • @froztbyte
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          73 months ago

          “what do you mean you can’t model your whole site on Posts”

          • @froztbyte
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            73 months ago

            followed by the next level of hell: “oh god, what, these are all made of Posts? seriously? what?”, and crying in a corner