Afterglow

206 HackerNews comments (top 25 by upvotes visible) center on Afterglow, a third-party theme for Sublime Text. Aesthetic sentiment is strongly positive — 'it's really beautiful and for ONCE it actually works when I install it!' — with users switching from long-time defaults like Soda Dark ('I've been using the same ol' boring Soda dark theme for years, so this is pretty refreshing'). Installation experience splits by method and OS: the Colorsublime route is praised ('it took me about 1 second to install Afterglow', with step-by-step Package Control instructions shared), and some report the theme applying live without even restarting Sublime. But friction recurs on Windows: one user reports 'Lots of scheme loading failures at first, then once I tried another recommended way to install it, I got plenty of visual quirks... if I can't get a text editor theme to work in a couple of minutes, I move on'; another reports tabs and sidebar 'badly distorted and garbled' after migrating from Soda Dark 3. macOS users note the bundled icon swap requires clearing the dock icon cache (rm on com.apple.dock.iconcache, then killall Dock) and touching the .app folder. Adjacent gripes target Sublime Text itself, not the theme: confusion over the $70 license on Windows ('The website is not very clear on the exact license') and comparisons to alternatives like Lime Text. Ecosystem notes: no vim port exists yet ('I don't believe that an afterglow theme for vim exists'), but users share an emacs-theme-creator porting recipe and a SynCycle plugin that auto-switches light/dark themes at sunrise/sunset. Design feedback includes a request for transparent line numbers. Roughly a third of the visible top comments are from a separate After Dark screensaver nostalgia thread (Flying Toasters, Lunatic Fringe, BBS-era stories) — an adjacent name, different product — so the raw comment volume overstates theme-specific data.

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