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.
yeah, we use wpcli for the day job, it's just the thing for serious wordpress abuse
I just fixed (or at least kludged) Dark Mode too
WP Dark Mode is annoyingly lacking in config options, I'll mess with CSS in a bit
not a single fucker ever calls it anything other than twitter
Twitter had outsized impact because it's where the journalists hung out, and structurally it was much more everyone in the same place than FB/IG
because i am super clever i forgot to install WP SuperCache and the server was promptly hugged to death by 1000 mastodon instances hitting it simultaneously to render a card for it
Dark Mode is comprehensively broken, i'll dive in again to try to fix it in a bit - I suspect Blocksy Free is not quite all that as a theme. pity, it looks ok
"look surely not everything in America is explained by racism" "... OH COME ON NOW"
i must point out that i've barely interacted with the guy, if at all, and had previously considered him on the saner end of the rationalists from his reasonably coherent twitter
don't forget the ones outraged they can't use the Daily Mail or the Sun as sources
literally started by a guy who was banned for trying to set up a business to write wikipedia articles, and the evils of JIMMY WAAAAAAAAALES!!! still fill his spleen
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 ...