molokai VS hacker-news-bluish-gray

Monokai was the name of the blog where the colorscheme was originally posted to: https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monoka...

At some point, the original author decided Monokai was a good name for both the website and the colorscheme: https://monokai.pro/

A different author ported the theme to Vim, and named this version Molokai to avoid confusion with the original author: https://github.com/tomasr/molokai

First, the tutorial is simply giving you bad advices. You should not be placing custom color schemes in ~/.vim/colors. You should instead be installing it like a plugin instead. Color schemes are just a type of plugins that only have a color folder (e.g. if you look at https://github.com/tomasr/molokai it only has a "color" folder and licenses etc).

In any case, this seems to be little more than a slightly modified version the molokai color scheme, which is a much more normal looking repo.

Vim theme: molokai

As a proud member of the Dark Mode Lobby, I share my favorite HN theme with my fellow crusaders in darkness: https://github.com/pyxelr/hacker-news-bluish-gray

In all seriousness, this article is as obnoxious as the dark mode zealots. Theme choices are a personal preference, and claiming any sort of objective benefits from either choice is ridiculous. Saying light mode is somehow better, and quoting dubious research to back it up, is the same argument in reverse.

Just give your users the option to choose whatever look they prefer, as customization is always good, and use whatever you like. And both sides should... lighten up. :)