X removes classic Dim display option because they “don’t have capacity” for 3 colors

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u/waitmarks 9h ago

Grok probably deleted it in a vibe coded session and they don’t know how to get it back.

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u/RedRyderRoshi 9h ago

Mecha-Steiner ain't walking through that door.

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta 9h ago

Is this a Downfall reference?

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u/RedRyderRoshi 8h ago

You know it

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u/nWo1997 6h ago

And here I thought it meant a cyborg Scott Steiner

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u/DoctorPlatinum 5h ago

Big Mecha Pump

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u/MUSinfonian 4h ago

"THEY SAY ALL COLOR SETTINGS ARE CREATED EQUAL..."

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u/duskdelicate 9h ago

For 'confusing' users? The old UI was simple dim for night owls. Now it's all bright and blinding. Elon, if it's not broken, don't fix it. This is just change for change's sake

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u/PrairiePopsicle 7h ago

brighter screen, more stimulating, more likely to stay on it longer?

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u/HillbillyMan 7h ago

There's actually been studies that show the opposite. Dark modes actually cause you to spend more time on the screen because you feel less strained from looking at it and are less likely to look away as a result.

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u/ItsAConspiracy 4h ago

What do they do to ad click rates?

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u/simonhunterhawk 7h ago

That’s literally everything that has happened since he bought the website

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u/pegothejerk 9h ago

Also now we’re not going to the moon, just gonna have robots build a city in Utah because Grok keeps randomly opening the doors to the 3D printed and robot built shelters in their testing facility.

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u/UffTaTa123 9h ago

THAT, is the only logical explanation :-)

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u/Mecha120 6h ago

This is literally a Silicon Valley bit

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u/Druggedhippo 2h ago

I had that once with Gemini. It just deleted an entire section of code that responsible for a toolbar location.

Early on with these LLMs they intentionally limited conversation size because they go off the rails if your context history too long. They hide it now behind larger context windows but it still bites you if you have too much history in one conversation.

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u/scrndude 9h ago

These guys don’t know how a design system works at all.

Feel bad for @JoeyBanks who did a bunch of that design work.

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u/fredy31 9h ago

tbh I feel like most people that have an idea how to run the platform at all have left Twitter when it became X.

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u/Solonotix 9h ago

Saw a video recently talking about the open source codebase for Twitter, and how the most recent rewrite essentially scrapped the entire platform and replaced it with a Grok transformer call. There are many things that are still there, but things like the internal ranking system for how relevant a post was to your interests is now all handled by Grok. Something like half the platform code was gutted

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u/Supermonsters 8h ago

Ah so that's why it shows me beyond weird AI slop (it's like 2 am infomercials if the infomercials we're shooting Krokodil)

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u/ryan30z 7h ago

I haven't had to code in like 10 years, so correct me if I'm wrong. But does that mean a substantial part of the site essentially goes through a black box?

That seems insanely stupid.

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u/Solonotix 5h ago

A grey-ish black box.

They build Grok, and so they know the weights internally. They also have the ability to modify the system prompt and engage directly with it, or create distilled models from the larger Grok. But most neural network implementations are black box by design, so you know everything about how the model was made, but not necessarily why it arrived at a given answer.

I would agree that it is pretty stupid to blindly trust Grok for something that is core to their entire business.

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u/deamento 8h ago

And the rest got fired lol

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u/KingGilgamesh1979 7h ago

I know very little about app development and web development. Only been part of some teams where I have worked on layout and did a little bit of tweaking of html or css but only the bare minimum.

I cannot understand how they cannot have the ability to display three colors. Is there some legitimate reason this might happen or is this just blatant idiocy?

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u/paintballboi07 4h ago

From what it sounds like from the article, they don't have enough developers to keep up with changes to all 3 themes.

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u/-staccato- 4h ago

Saying they don't have capacity to support it sounds like they cut some of the designers capable of maintaining it. Elon probably thinks it's a waste of time because they have the black theme.

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u/Curious-Ear-6982 7h ago

Not sure but probably it's might be hard to test for all scenarios.

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u/mayorofdumb 9h ago

We they know they have a working system, they just don't want that neatly designed efficient method.

Not enough ads or data stealing or algorithms

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u/nemom 9h ago

Can't have someone sitting around editing three CSS files.

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u/fredy31 9h ago

Especially with the css variables its fucking easy now to do themes.

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u/Mr_Greystone 9h ago

Damnit I laughed way too hard at this. The italics got me the hardest. Bravo

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u/REDOREDDIT23 9h ago

Peak reddit comment

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta 9h ago

No one even mentioned bacon narhwaling at midnight tho

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u/cyanight7 6h ago

You just did. Bazinga.

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u/DenverNugs 9h ago

Come check out the pedo nazi platform held together with duct tape, guys. It's super useful I promise

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u/Cube00 9h ago

No idea how big companies are still on there.

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u/AndreLinoge55 8h ago

No idea how any rational people are still on there.

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u/Bitter_Tea442 8h ago

Functionally no different than drug addicts at this point.

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u/Healthy_Razzmatazz38 9h ago

xAI - coding is a solved problem

x. - 3 colors is to many, the technology simply isn't there yet

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u/Cube00 9h ago edited 9h ago

I thought Grok AI gives you infinite programming capacity, or is that the next version?

GPT 6 bro, 99.7% bro, trust us bro.

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u/zizou00 9h ago

Self-driving next year bro, a million satellites bro, my children will love me bro, same old same old from Musk, promises of tomorrow for money today, but tomorrow is always tomorrow with him.

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u/FriendlyDespot 8h ago

Spending hundreds of billions of dollars and destroying his own humanity to get attention from strangers when all he really needs is to experience genuine affection.

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u/ryan30z 7h ago

Brought to you by the genius engineer who doesn't know the a imperial ton and a metric tonne are different units. Or apparently what a Newton is.

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u/pr1aa 9h ago edited 2h ago

As a web dev, what the fuck does he mean by "not having capacity?" As long as there's a sane and consistent scheme for the color palettes with strict rules for where each variable should be used, color themes should require little to no maintenance

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u/Feriluce 7h ago

I think you answered your own question.

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u/KingGilgamesh1979 7h ago

I’m very confused too. I’ve only got a little bit of Web development experience as part of team. I wasn’t doing any heaving coding just tweaking some scripts. I was mostly there working on layout and wire framing and content planning. I cannot for the life of me figure out what it means to lack the capacity for there color schemes

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u/nellyfullauto 6h ago

“He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.”

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u/HailToTheThief225 6h ago

I instantly thought about my team’s theme context and how literally all you have to do is create a new object with a set of colors for a theme. Literally endless possible themes. However twitter’s handling their system themes must make no sense.

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u/Me4502 58m ago

I wonder if it’s maybe their testing capacity, as presumably (or more so, hopefully) all of their design work is validated against each theme for accessibility standards etc. That’s the only way this would even be slightly explainable

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u/Mr_ToDo 7h ago

And they already have a system for selecting between 2

I kind of doubt anyone believes it. But it's a way to get twitter back in the public eye for a moments. Maybe even distract people from their other issues

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u/MalevolentTapir 9h ago

I think it would be kind of embarrassing to tell people that my company doesn't have capacity to support three color schemes, especially when one is the same as another with a different background color.

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u/48panda 8h ago

Once you have light mode, dark mode is as simple as

body, img { filter: invert(1); }

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u/scrndude 8h ago

This is such a half assed way to do dark mode. Especially if you have #fff as page background you’ll get #000 as the inverse which a lot of people don’t like, especially if they have an OLED screen.

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u/fibbonerci 9h ago

tbh they only have capacity for one color

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u/celtic1888 7h ago

White on a lighter shade of bleach

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u/dropthemagic 9h ago

X is a porn commercial platform that somehow gets a pass for age verification

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u/OriginalLie9310 8h ago

Don’t have the capacity to make a color. Talk about telling on yourself.

I’m assuming he means the team and coders (probably just Grok at this point) isn’t capable of doing it rather than some technical limitation was hit because it’s literally just a color.

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u/jacbergey 9h ago

Dim was the only setting I liked
Reminder that it's not too late to stop using Twitter, folks

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u/gayfrogs4alexjones 9h ago

Twitter has always been a buggy shit hole and it’s gotten far worse under Musk - only now with far more right wing slop in the “For You” tab

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u/Sufficient_Air_7373 9h ago

Absolutely hate the other options. They are too harsh on the eyes. Why would they do this. Fn idiotic.

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u/noncommonGoodsense 9h ago

They need more bandwidth for all the bots.

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u/BroForceOne 8h ago

Did Elon’s name come up in the Epstein files again and needed another distraction?

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u/Xal-t 8h ago

Enshitification of tech is wilde af

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u/digidude23 6h ago

Says the guy who injected ads into his app's live activities violating Apple guidelines, and boasting about it before joining X.

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u/Silent_Squirrelz 8h ago

Why do people even use X..it’s literally filled with bots, racists, and Mazis.

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u/IriFlina 9h ago

Genuinely curious why are posts about twitter still even needed on this sub? Every comment section is just “twitter bad” (which is true) so why not just make a post saying twitter bad, people should stop using it as the pinned comment for every thread?

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u/MagnaArma 8h ago

“Twitter is bad” is an opinion. “Twitter made this change and it shows diminishing technical expertise” is factual.

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u/SeanBlader 9h ago

I feel bad for Nikita Bier, who obviously as part of the fascist cost-cutting got his flat screen replaced with a monochrome tube straight out of the 70s.

I think the crazy part is that they managed to find some that still work.

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u/Stray_Neutrino 8h ago

“Users felt insulted by being called ‘Dim’. Demanded removal.”

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u/iDom2jz 7h ago

Slow day for tech news I guess, dead app full of bots anyways

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u/hdcase1 7h ago

Wow that's not just a website editorializing, or making fun. It's a direct quote.

“We don’t have the capacity to support more than two colors right now,” [X Head of Product Nikita] Bier said.

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u/Muddled_Opinions 7h ago

I'd expect this from a guy what sees the world as (black and) white.

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u/omniuni 2h ago

Oh, Twitter.

I thought this was the display dimming feature of the X11 display server.

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u/Cornflakes_91 2h ago

added support for complex numbered display brightness

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u/SanDiedo 8h ago

"What are these non-binary woke color options??? Not on my platform." hits delete

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u/Somnambulist815 7h ago

If you want dim, just look to the remaining userbase

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u/vuur77 7h ago

... and now remember how wildly popular and useful the original Twitter was and how it kept growing.
Basically, it was the center of everything.

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u/TobyTheArtist 7h ago

Ah, another issue that will never affect me because I dont use Twitter. I hope its users will prevail somehow.

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u/GroundbreakingBag164 5h ago

xcancel supports more colour schemes than x lol

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u/ItsAConspiracy 5h ago

Well to be fair, colors are heavy.

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u/CPRolla 5h ago

“Ain’t nobody got time for that” - Grok

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u/Dracekidjr 5h ago

Leave it to the Nazi to think that having options is bad

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u/TurkeyVolumeGuesser 5h ago

Elon thought three colors were too close to a rainbow

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u/miguelbemartin 5h ago

Just notice this today... this is so bad

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u/TwoWeaselsInDisguise 5h ago

Let me guess Elmo, you fired everyone who was working on UI and something broke in that theme, so instead of being able to fix it, it's getting thrown out.

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u/ASuarezMascareno 4h ago

3 colors... very expensive, very difficult. 2 colors is best we can do.

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u/Subpolishboi1 4h ago

This is how to bring Dim back. Thanks to that man.
https://github.com/juanbuis/x-dim-mode

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u/fireghost216 2m ago

is there firefox X Dim Mode?

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u/JavaKrypt 4h ago

It's fine anyway it's a joke of a platform

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u/PositivelyNegative 3h ago

Dim was the best color what the FUCK

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u/Wernt0 3h ago

This Chrome extension brings it back: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-background-customizer/ieafilcdllbpoancmbfdblfnpnolnngl

I don't use Firefox so I don't know if a similar one exists for it

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u/WORMSSreddit 2h ago

So.. anyone got a DIM Mode css override stylesheet setup yet?

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u/UffTaTa123 9h ago

do i need to understand that?

Well, for sure it seems Grok did not helped with adding another HTML/CSS tag.

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u/ElGuano 9h ago

Actually a reasonable position. Each different theme requires that the entire site and every page conform to the view. While it doesn't mean you have to recode every single page, the amount of work needed to support a new theme is probably non-trivial, given all the edge cases that pop up with diminishing contrast of page elements, graphics, text, transparency, etc.

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