We've Gone to the Dark (Mode) Side

A long time ago, in a dashboard far, far away...your eyes were suffering.

We know. We've heard about it since 2019: 270 of you voted for Dark Mode on our feature request board. Some of you left comments. One of you simply wrote: "So much white... Need dark mode please!" Honestly? Fair.

Today—May the 4th, because the team made it happen—Dark Mode is live on DNSFilter. 

Here's the actual origin story: Lately, the product team has been carving out more time for exactly this kind of work—testing, experimenting, and revisiting long-standing asks that are a lot more achievable now than they were a few years ago. It turns out some of the things customers have wanted forever aren't actually that hard anymore. We just needed to make the time.

It also didn't hurt that new sales hires were asking a pretty fair question: We're a cybersecurity company... Why don't we have dark mode? Hard to argue with that.

Someone on the product team had a thought they couldn't shake. What if Dark Mode launched on May the 4th? Product and Quality Engineering got together, said yes, and the App & API release got moved up one day early so Dark Mode could make its entrance on the most appropriate day in the calendar. We couldn't ship it any other way.

So... what took so long?

Here's the honest answer: We're a security company. When there's a choice between shipping a new threat intelligence capability and making the dashboard easier on the eyes, threat intelligence tends to win. As it probably should. Nobody's network got compromised because the UI was too bright.

But "probably should" isn't the same as "always right." The people using DNSFilter most are the ones in the platform constantly—MSPs, IT admins, security teams—and the quality of that daily experience matters. Dark Mode kept getting pushed because it never felt urgent. Turns out, 270 votes and seven years of patience is a pretty compelling argument that it was.

It's also not just a vibe. A lot of you are in the DNSFilter dashboard at weird hours. Early mornings, late nights, middle-of-an-incident 2 AMs. You're already protecting your network around the clock, and your eyes shouldn't have to pay for it.

To flip the switch: Log into your DNSFilter dashboard, head to your profile settings, and go dark. Takes about four seconds. You've waited seven years—you've earned those four seconds.

To everyone who voted, commented, and kept bumping that Canny post: This one's for you.

This IS the dashboard you're looking for. 🖤

Log in and flip the switch →