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<p>Weve had dark mode on iOS and Android for years but Im now pleased to announce a worthy dark theme has come to the NewsBlur web app.</p>
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<p>Thats 7 years of NewsBlur having an unofficial dark mode, but users had to jump through hoops to use it: installing a browser extension (which had a <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447816">malware scare in 2018</a>) or having to copy the Stylish CSS to NewsBlurs Account settings where it would need to be manually updated. What NewsBlur needed was having it built in.</p>
<p>Today NewsBlur is shipping first-class support. Building a dark theme requires more than inverting the existing color scheme, turning white to black and green to purple. Quite a bit of thought around UX and information hierarchy went into this dark theme design. I also used this as an opportunity to freshen up icons and small visual details on both light and dark themes.</p>
<p>Now we have a consistent dark theme across all of the first-party apps. The <a href="https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/21/2014-11-18-offline-reading-and-a-dark-theme-on-the-android.html">Android app had dark mode first in 2014</a>. Then came the <a href="https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/21/2016-04-12-newsblur-goes-dark-on-ios.html">iOS app is 2016</a>. Now were firmly in 2020 and its made it to the web. Goes to show that NewsBlur is always getting better. </p>
<p>If you like the new features weve been releasing recently, I would greatly appreciate if you could share a tweet or Facebook post about NewsBlur. <strong>If you enjoy staying connected with culture and news through NewsBlur and you think your friends and followers would too, let them know about your news reader of choice.</strong> I appreciate all the kind comments that have come in since releasing this new theme.</p>
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<p>In love 🥰 with the new dark theme of <a href="https://twitter.com/NewsBlur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NewsBlur</a> ! Kudos <a href="https://twitter.com/samuelclay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@samuelclay</a> 👍</p>
<p>— Jean Traullé (@jtraulle) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtraulle/status/1275814360141701120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2020</a></p>
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