Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 1 CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/
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My favourite mode is greyscale mode. It makes such a welcome difference. My least favorite is grayscale mode. Obviously, Dorian Grayscale is a timeless classic.
Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light. It did not last: the Devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo. formalverse.com/2021/03/20/o...
"Modem Mode" 😭
:D
This is the best April fools joke I’ve seen so far. Man, now I just want to know how some of these filters were even done.
To you too!
It's already in Allah Mode
This is truly inspired, and so well done, and it’s my favorite thing I’ve seen in a while.
Deep truths, as always
And God said "If this request was not part of the original design specifications, then it will require a new ticket."
Oh great now I need to leave it on Screensaver until it hits a corner
Omg the gray/greyscale modes cracked me up (even as a yank who instinctively spells it with the "e" for some reason)
Modem mode keeps triggering Firefox's script killer dialog
XKCD Comic MMMCCXXVII Creation It is a period of civil war on the internet...
...And it was very good. 😁 I'm actually enjoying these effects on the webpage.
You pitched this as a joke, but I genuinely love Dark Mode XKCD and hope you keep it around.
Randall, the grayscale and greyscale modes do not grayscale or greyscale the shades of blue in the background. Please fix.
This was the most delightful thing I've encountered in weeks
that would be the next step
Modem mode was nasty. I don't have that much patience anymore, 25 years later.
Remember that for most of human history light was a extremely valuable resource.
NYOOM!
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
mario's gonna fly for you
AND AN EDIT BUTTON! 👀
i really like that, if you are in one of the other modes, esp. stained glass, and you go to prior comics, the effect is applied there too.
I just misclicked and loaded xkcd.com/1732/ in modem mode. Pray for me.
It is missing a "modern web" mode: - The comic is surrounded by ads. - The comic is at the bottom of the page and you have to scroll to it, but the scroll position is reset to the top once per second. - There is a popup saying that "we value your privacy" and the need to opt in for cookies.
Now I want the stained glass mode in every app I use.
Ink or Stained Glass mode please. Dark mode can get in the sea ☺️
FWIW, "Airplane Mode" is my favorite.
Riana Duncan's (1980s) view in Punch on people demanding dark mode from a deity ...
great...
css is fantastic.
No Depche Mode?
In Greyscale Mode it should be a Creative Commons 2.5 licence.
Oh, greyscale, very good.
oh this is delightful
Ironic that to Convey the beauty of light Requires black lines
Worth checking it out on the website, try Space Opera Mode
Dorian Greyscale mode took me a minute. Or rather, you have to give it a minute! Also, modem mode is incredibly accurate in that it freezes the tab and possibly the entire browser while it “loads”. Safari gets mad and says it is not responding.
"The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
RFC Please add the dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, aeolian and ionian mode. It will support the chanting of the comics by monks.
Title text: "This xkcd.com update introduces a variety of new reading modes which can be activated through the menu below the comic." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3227#Transcript
So much easier on the eyes.