Dark theme for forum?

[ik9000]

any joy with this? Just dazzled myself on this site again.

[MLyons]

any joy with this? Just dazzled myself on this site again.

Been very busy with Computex so not yet. Once it's over I should be able to do something.

[Ttaskmaster]

any joy with this? Just dazzled myself on this site again.

Can you not turn your monitor brightness down, in the meantime?
Mine's only at 5%...

[MLyons]

Anyone have suggestions for the exact colours they'd want? Obviously not straight black on white but any suggestions would be handy.

[spacein_vader]

Cyan and yellow?

[zaphod159]

Anyone have suggestions for the exact colours they'd want? Obviously not straight black on white but any suggestions would be handy.

I like how twitch does it, basically replace everything that is white with black and vice versa, and leave the rest the same. Only the grey forum navigation stuff at the top would need to be changed and to go along with the HEXUS colours, just make those blue/orange.

[ik9000]

Anyone have suggestions for the exact colours they'd want? Obviously not straight black on white but any suggestions would be handy.

Keep as is, swap white background for dark grey, drop pale grey borders and banners to mid grey. font a pale grey/off-white NOT bright white. It's about dimming the thing down. The blues and oranges will still work fine.

[atemporal]

+1. this is a screenshot from thegearpage:



(best i could find on google sry)

and here is its normal appearance:



They seem to invert everything on the greyscale spectrum while leaving everything else the same and it works well.

[Saracen999]

ok, thanks, not sure where I linked to another thread. your point is valid but .....

You didn't, but atemporal did, which is what that bit referred to. It wasn't a link but rather a reference, which being more vague than a link means I had to guess at tbe 'other thread' in question.

[cheesemp]

That gearpage dark theme is perfect and got my vote. Got to love a dark theme!

[ik9000]

soooo, any progress on this chaps? It would be a great addition to the site. I'd started to get my hopes up, but things seem to have dropped off the radar (or have they..?) Don't leave us in the dark light on this!

[spacein_vader]

If you use a Chrome or Firefox based browser there's an extension called Dark Reader that flips white to black, you can set it on a site by site basis too. For example, this is how the forum looks to me with it on:

[ik9000]

If you use a Chrome or Firefox based browser there's an extension called Dark Reader that flips white to black, you can set it on a site by site basis too. For example, this is how the forum looks to me with it on:

A workaround but I prefer not to have to resort to extensions etc. If other sites can do it natively so it works on all devices that would be preferable here too (if possible)

[Saracen999]

soooo, any progress on this chaps? It would be a great addition to the site. I'd started to get my hopes up, but things seem to have dropped off the radar (or have they..?) Don't leave us in the dark light on this!

Part of the problem is likely to be that for everybody that wants a dark theme, there are others (including me) that want a light one. To please everybody, we'd need both, and to be user-selectable.

Then, where there are sponsor-run forums, they either would (*) need to be excluded, or changes agreed.

And as soon as you start having multiple templates on a forum with customised sections and/or code, you increase the workload every time there's a major update.



(*) I would assume. Even when I had insider access, I never saw or was ever involved in anything to do with these relationships, so these comments are from personal opinion, not former insider knowledge. If it were the latter, I wouldn't be posting it.

[Jonj1611]

I haven't seen a sponsor around here for ages, do they still visit?

[ik9000]

Part of the problem is likely to be that for everybody that wants a dark theme, there are others (including me) that want a light one. To please everybody, we'd need both, and to be user-selectable.

Then, where there are sponsor-run forums, they either would (*) need to be excluded, or changes agreed.

And as soon as you start having multiple templates on a forum with customised sections and/or code, you increase the workload every time there's a major update.



(*) I would assume. Even when I had insider access, I never saw or was ever involved in anything to do with these relationships, so these comments are from personal opinion, not former insider knowledge. If it were the latter, I wouldn't be posting it.

other sites can do it. It's just a toggle in your user settings. It's not masses of work to have two defined colour schemes. Provided the website has been sensibly coded using variables to begin with. If they've hard-coded the settings every time, well...