color: #000, opacity: 0.87 on a #fff background works out to a hex of #212121, which has a contrast ratio of 16.10.
You absolutely did not understand what I wrote, which had not the slightest connection to any contrast ratios. Please reread.
I’d imagine that there isn’t a large user need where they start off on one chapter and need to quickly and easily navigate to a new chapter that isn’t the next chapter.
Why would you imagine this? I have done this regularly when using HPMOR.com.
Medium is an example and from what I gather is considered to provide users with a great reading experience.
Considered by whom? Medium offers one of the worse reading rexperiences on the web.
I bet that users who care a lot about dark mode have browser extensions installed that they can reach for when needed.
This is not even remotely true. Such browser extensions do not (and, given the way that browsers work, cannot) work well (or, increasingly, at all). In my experience, most people who “care a lot about dark mode” in fact just do not use websites that don’t have a dark mode. (Also, dark mode is, at this point, common enough, and the implementation techniques well enough known, that users simply expect it from a well-designed website.)
I could see an argument for the lack of fan art being more than “very minor” but personally I’m very bearish on it.
This boils down to “I, personally, don’t care about this, therefore it doesn’t matter”, which does not work as a rebuttal of a claim that not having the thing in question is a worse user experience than having it.
You absolutely did not understand what I wrote, which had not the slightest connection to any contrast ratios. Please reread.
Why would you imagine this? I have done this regularly when using HPMOR.com.
Considered by whom? Medium offers one of the worse reading rexperiences on the web.
This is not even remotely true. Such browser extensions do not (and, given the way that browsers work, cannot) work well (or, increasingly, at all). In my experience, most people who “care a lot about dark mode” in fact just do not use websites that don’t have a dark mode. (Also, dark mode is, at this point, common enough, and the implementation techniques well enough known, that users simply expect it from a well-designed website.)
This boils down to “I, personally, don’t care about this, therefore it doesn’t matter”, which does not work as a rebuttal of a claim that not having the thing in question is a worse user experience than having it.