Do you browse the forums in light or dark mode/theme?

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How do you browse the internet so far, mainly the forums? Which side do you belong in: Light or Dark?

Personally, I belong to the Dark side and when I turn to the light “pun intended”, it’s as if the gates of heaven have opened! :smile:

This my experience so far … what’s yours?

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There is a Dark theme for the forums?

I have usually go with dark theme on almost every app (I avoid the Dark theme when is poorly made, making it harder to do anything).

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I’m either Chaotic Neutral or Neutral Evil depending on my mood.

Jokes aside, white letters on black background tend to leave strong afterimages and that makes reading problematic.

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Alright, I added a new option “Neutral” after your comment :smile:

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Yeah, pretty much and it’s well designed … you’re gonna love it if you belong to the dark side :wink:

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I demand blue text over red background and mandatory google search before new topics.

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I use the Dark Reader Chrome Plugin.

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Are you sure? I never used dark theme on the forum mostly because I have never seen an option :frowning:

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I almost always choose dark theme. I didn’t know this forum had one though, so I’m Light here.

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There’s no official dark theme for the forum. People eventually made their own by using a “user styles manager” (e.g. Stylus or Stylish) and custom CSS. Alternatively, browser add-ons like Dark Reader exists.
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I’m not sure which one did enable the dark theme/mode for me in the forums, but I’m saying all of my settings anyway:

  • Dark mode/theme is enabled in Windows settings
  • I set a dark template for Chrome browser
  • I enabled Chrome -experimental- dark mode/theme feature from the settings

Here are links that will get you started:

In the last link-chrome://flags-, search for “Force Dark Mode for Web Contents” in the search bar, set it to: Enabled

Of course, I’m assuming you’re using Windows and Chrome browser.

And you should have dark mode/theme in the forums :stuck_out_tongue:

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Here’s a pic of what I see:

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Oh, now I see. The one that changes the website theme is the last one, the experimental dark mode. It is an experimental feature from Chrome to change the website colors to a dark mode seamlessly, even if the website itself does not provide one.

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That’s true :smile:

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Most websites are dark text on light background, so I find it annoying flipping between browser tabs which switch between light and dark themes. So I’m not a huge fan of dark themes for websites.

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Fair enough :slight_smile:

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