[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Add light/dark mode preference (Issue #5324)

[gmar5]

Personally, I find the discussion of "colour-modes" for maps misleading. Maps have colours, selected by the developers of a map style based on their own criteria and preferences. If you change those colours (you want them darker? a different background? inverted? etc.) then you are creating a new map style — a completely new one, or a variation of an existing one, it doesn't matter, they are distinct.
As a new map style, its most appropriate place in the website settings is the Map Layers selector, which is already implemented and working. No need of anything else.

Openstreetmap-carto, with darkened tiles, for me, is a new style. It can be implemented as such. It should never replace carto as the default on the website.

Filters which act on top of a map style are going against the desired outcomes that the makers of the style are seeking. I am personally against that idea.
If you want to introduce them anyway, then they should be controlled by optional settings. There should be no "auto" feature. The default, regardless of browser settings, should always be "No filter". And remember that most people will use the website without a registered/logged-in user.
Honestly, I don't think many people desire a filter, so I wouldn't waste time on it, but maybe it's just me. 
Similarly, the UI is so minimal that a setting controlling light/dark would be nice, but not crucial.
I feel we are wasting time on hypothetical thinking and niche user cases, while ignoring the main desired feature: restoration of the default carto style, as intended by its makers, for all users.


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