✅ Dark Mode

Do you mean lots of resources to throw at it?

I think the gov.uk team had about 10 in it plus contractors when required.

Dark mode was released on Revolut yesterday. It looks great.

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Monzo have dropped the ball on this. Raised over two years ago, what’s taking them so long? They should deprioritize another less important feature

@Ian1

Dark mode is a monumental change for any app. You’d need a new design for literally every page, if it’s a bank you might need to do accessibility audits potentially, there’s also the internal code that actually manages the theming of your app, which depending on how it’s setup might not be easy to adjust to support dark mode…

I think Monzo have bigger priorities… like making money instead of a feature which would be nice but dark mode won’t make them money…

The company I work for developed large commerce apps for many companies around the world. None of our clients are asking for it and even if they could, it’s not worth the development time for a lot of them compared to a huge money printing feature…

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I’m not sure there is anything they have been working on that is less important than dark mode. Dark mode is a nice to have, not a need to have. Does nothing to add value to the company or to help the customer manage their finances better.

I want a dark mode but only when there is time for the developers to do it.

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I can think of two less important features: (1) the ability to extract personal data from the app, seems a bit meh and how does it help them make money? (2) open banking by letting you see your Barclaycard balance. Open banking is plagued by the need to repeatedly log in every month or two to revalidate credentials. I have it on my other bank accounts and I have Yolt but they are more hassle than they are worth.

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Those are part and parcel of plus which is revenue generating.

Dark mode should be bottom of the list.

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Every 90 days

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That point is debatable, I know a lot of people that wont use apps now unless they have dark mode, i’m of a similar stance, Monzo is the only app i use daily, even weekly that doesn’t have dark mode. If people aren’t using the app, they’re most probably not using the bank account, therefore not making money. So whilst you’d be right in saying it wont make them much money, i think it would make them a little bit

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The question you should ask yourself is have I ever used refused app because it didn’t have dark mode… then the next question is 'have i ever used an app specifically for dark mode?" Yeah it’s nice but for me and I believe for many others, that doesn’t stop them using the vast majority of apps out there without dark mode…

I thought I answered those questions above in my last comment, yes and yes, and I know plenty of people who do the same also.
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Monzo slips through the cracks in people no dark mode rules(especially mine) because in my opinion there is not another banking experience like it or similar enough to make me happily use something else, luckily for Monzo, other banks don’t do dark mode yet either so there is very little choice, and yes I know Revolut have dark mode now but they aren’t a bank imo. I certainly wouldn’t use them as my main account.

If/when the days come when other banks start implementing dark mode, I know people who will leave Monzo for it, currently there’s competition in that area.

I just hope its implemented soon, and I struggle to believe that they didn’t do any prep work for it with the new redesign last year or whenever it was now, time flies. That really would’ve been a silly mistake in my opinion

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Is dark mode more of an aesthetics thing or do all the people who have voted for this have some form of visual impairment?

Undervalued comment right there.

Too many people think it’s just a case of making it a dark background - its a fundamental change in so, so many ways

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Spoken like someone whose eyes don’t hurt when a random bright white screen is forced into their eyes when everything else has a Dark Mode.

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Doesn’t your phone adjust its brightness automatically based on surrounding light? That should help :slight_smile:

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I understand the desire for dark mode as it is easier on the eyes but I don’t think the difference in brightness is that big, especially if you are already looking at a screen

If you wake up in the middle of the night then yes, even the lowest intensity setting will burn your eyes but you shouldn’t be looking at screens anyway

But it takes a few seconds, at least mine does

Not everything has dark mode.

And how did you cope for years without? Just turn your brightness down.