From Light to Dark...Eventually!

#137

                            January 16, 2023

                From Light to Dark...Eventually!

                        On how long it's taken to implement dark mode for the app and website! But, it's coming soon...honest! 😅

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#137 | 16 January 2023

From Light to Dark

We finally started work on our most upvoted feature: Dark Mode! 🌚

I knew that it would take a long time to implement — if you're doing it right, you can't just invert colours, you essentially have to come up with a new colour scheme — but I massively underestimated just how long it would take to complete! 😩

There's a wide variety of screens and components to product now, all of which need a dark mode version!

Not only are there so many different facets to the product — book pages, book list views, stats, reading challenges, buddy reads, etc. — you've also got to account for different user states: no books added yet, tracking audiobooks via minutes, challenges in progress with bonus prompts, and so on...

Faced with such large scope, I decided to methodically work through all of the code files responsible for displaying pages to the reader in alphabetical order and, two weeks later, the end is finally in sight! 💪🏾

Since last time...

Beyond a handful of bugs that cropped up during our high-traffic days at the beginning of the year, it's been heads down on the redesign and Dark Mode only!

Next two weeks

If I'm not showing you "before and after" screenshots in #138, as I hoped I'd be doing in this issue, then something incredibly unexpected has cropped up and consumed all of my time! 😬 😅

What I'm reading

I started a chronological read of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's books last year and am currently working through Half of a Yellow Sun, albeit incredibly slowly!

Have a great week,

Nadia

P.S. Know somebody who's an avid reader or would enjoy following along with this journey? Please do forward this email to them! Thank you. :-)

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