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I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck (loudwhisper.me)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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I hope this won't be counted as some form of self-promotion, even though I am sharing a post from my own blog.

As a tech worker who works in a Cloud shop, I wanted to elaborate the many reasons why I find working with Clouds terrible, from multiple points of view.

I tried to organize my thoughts in a (relatively long) post, in which both technical aspects and political aspects (which are very related) are covered.

I am sure many people will have different perspectives, and this could be potentially also a nice prompt for a discussion.

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[–] jg1i 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hate websites with low contrast text.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do you get this? Anything that tries to force a light mode?

This is how the site is supposed to look like (there is no light/dark theme selection):

[–] ilmagico 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I was reading the site on Android, and it looked dark, but after seeing this comment, I tried disabling Android system wide dark mode, and sure enough it became white like in the screenshot! For the record, I tried with both Firefox and a Chromium-based browser.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I went and tried on my phone and indeed setting Firefox to light mode indeed causes that horrendous and unreadable result. I will need to figure out way, eventually, and provide an alternative light scheme.

[–] elephantium 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I get the same white background on Windows, Chromium and Firefox. Checking settings, I see FF is set to "Automatic" light/dark mode. When I manually select Dark mode, I see the dark background.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I will have a look if there is something that suggests how to "make" a light theme. Thanks for the info!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the feedback, and same to @[email protected] and @[email protected]. I fixed the configuration of the site and now the site should be readable even in light mode.

[–] ilmagico 1 points 4 months ago

You're welcome! And yes, I can confirm it works in light mode as well :)

[–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 4 months ago

That's an interesting gotcha.