Forum "dark theme"

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anonymous-user

Original Poster:

67 months

Friday 27th September 2019
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Watchman

6,391 posts

258 months

Saturday 28th September 2019
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Me please.

Using chrome's flags to force the content "dark" isn't always very successful. A native forum dark theme would work so much better.

scottydoesntknow

860 posts

70 months

Saturday 28th September 2019
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Great idea.

Low Pro

202 posts

174 months

Saturday 28th September 2019
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Yes please

S100HP

13,229 posts

180 months

Saturday 28th September 2019
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Another

Mr Pointy

12,377 posts

172 months

Saturday 28th September 2019
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The Dark Reader addon works quite well for me:
https://darkreader.org/

cherryowen

12,111 posts

217 months

Saturday 28th September 2019
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Another +1 here

Scrump

23,258 posts

171 months

Saturday 28th September 2019
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IPadOS using dark theme and smart invert switches PH to a dark theme without the need for any 3rd party apps.

MitchT

16,598 posts

222 months

Saturday 28th September 2019
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Not a fan of dark themes. Notably, after reading light text on a dark background and then turning my attention away from the screen, my eyes go very weird like the light text has made some kind of imprint that interferes with my vision.

Jack Mansfield

3,272 posts

103 months

PH TEAM

Monday 30th September 2019
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I'm afraid this is not on the to do list and probably won't make it on there for a long time.

We used to have different themes, but they were essentially three different sites, meaning three times the work on upkeep/updates etc due to the ancient platform the forums is on!

Appreciate the feedback though smile

TREMAiNE

4,069 posts

162 months

Tuesday 1st October 2019
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Mr Pointy said:
The Dark Reader addon works quite well for me:
https://darkreader.org/
You are my hero.
Thank you.

Digger

15,487 posts

204 months

Tuesday 15th October 2019
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Scrump said:
IPadOS using dark theme and smart invert switches PH to a dark theme without the need for any 3rd party apps.
Running iPadOS & dark theme with Safari, how do you get PH to go dark as well?

Digger

15,487 posts

204 months

Tuesday 15th October 2019
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Digger said:
Scrump said:
IPadOS using dark theme and smart invert switches PH to a dark theme without the need for any 3rd party apps.
Running iPadOS & dark theme with Safari, how do you get PH to go dark as well?
Worked it out, as well as triple-clicking option to turn on or off. An improvement at least.

Scrump

23,258 posts

171 months

Tuesday 15th October 2019
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I had to switch on “smart invert” in the display menu under the accessibility settings. That switches PH to dark.

Tankrizzo

7,681 posts

206 months

Monday 21st October 2019
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Fair play that Dark Reader for Chrome is superb. Using it for a lot of sites now.

vaud

54,158 posts

168 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2019
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Ohhh that works well. Thanks!

LordGrover

33,827 posts

225 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2019
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Firefox has night mode.


irocfan

43,441 posts

203 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2019
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I can't handle dark - really sends my eyes scatty and end up with a headache (mind you it'd work wonders for getting me to stay off the damn 'puter)

turbobloke

110,437 posts

273 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2019
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Tankrizzo said:
Fair play that Dark Reader for Chrome is superb. Using it for a lot of sites now.
yes

Church of Noise

1,536 posts

250 months

Sunday 24th January 2021
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Using Dark Reader for Firefox here too.

I'm surprised not more sites are offering a dark mode, as most OSes (Windows, Android, ...) are even offering it, same thing probably goes for a lot of the stuff sites run on(forum software and what have you).