Darker Medium

Read Medium stories with happy eyes

What is Darker Medium?

"Darker Medium" is a smart Chrome extension that effortlessly transforms the look of all Medium formatted stories to a comfortable dark theme. The extension allows customizable options including the header background, main accent and highlighting colors, and link color. It even hides the nondescript 'get updates' footer. Plus, the added benefit of syntax highlighting to codes and styled embedded gists, making it not just reader-friendly but developer-friendly as well. No need for complex setup – it's an install, customize and forget tool.

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By: Mottie

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Users: 865 ▼ -5

Rating: 4.20 (20)

Version: 1.4.0 (Last updated: 2018-11-13)

Creation date: 2018-11-13

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

storage
tabs
<all_urls>

Size: 48.28K

Email: wo*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 30118 ▼ 387

Other rankings

#1956 in Social Networking ▲ 2 #30 in medium keyword 14 ▼ 3

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Summary

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Read Medium stories with happy eyes.

Applies a customizable dark theme to all medium formatted stories.
Customize:
- Header background.
- Main Accent color.
- Highlighting color.
- Link color, hover and underline.
- Hiding the "get updates" footer.
Adds syntax highlighting to code and styles embedded gists (https://gist.github.com/).
Medium story sites are automatically detected and styled.
The advantage of using this extension over Stylus or Stylish is that you install it, customize it and forget about it.

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works without any hassle
Simple and works great
Helpful in night reading

Cons

Does not apply to Stories page
Doesn't work on every page

Most mentioned

Works without any hassle
Does not apply to Stories page
Doesn't work on every page

Recent reviews

On my browser it works only for the main page https://medium.com/ . Any article is displayed in standard Medium white theme.

Andrea Avesani, 2020-01-27

Hasta hace unos días perfecto, ahora ha dejado de funcionar cuando entras a un articulo en concreto.

Raúl, 2019-07-11

Perfect extension for medium. Works without any hassle.

Shubhral Agrawal, 2019-07-02

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Safety

Risk impact

Darker Medium is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Darker Medium if you trust the publisher.