Any Chance for a Darker Theme?

[mobilehaathi]

Those of you looking for a darker theme for MR ought to check out PRSI. Ba dum tssh.

Seriously though, one more vote for a dark theme UI!

 

[LizKat]

Those of you looking for a darker theme for MR ought to check out PRSI. Ba dum tssh.

Seriously though, one more vote for a dark theme UI!

Thanks for the astute observation of PRSI 😱 and the fish link to the Ba dum tssh.

Not sure about need for a dark theme at MR. Sometimes I hit sites where I find their dark theme default illegible, yet on other sites I have resorted to inverting colors to be able to read their light-themed pages comfortably. Here I usually get by ok just adusting brightness.

Maybe it's my aging eyes. I vaguely remember being 30-something and setting pastel background colors in text documents while using a pale grey font color. If I didn't hear "what an idiot" it's because I was too busy imagining the applause for the artistic sophistication of my work.

 

[ActionableMango]

Dark theme would be great. I like to wind down at night by browsing on an iPad. Unfortunately with most websites it's like having a flashlight blaring into my face.

 

[960design]

If you have ever visited https://www.macstories.net/ there is a nice color button towards the top that will change the website background from white to a dark gray. This would really be nice on these forums for when browsing at night or somewhere dark to avoid needing to use the iOS disability options or inverted colors on the Mac.

This something that is ever been considered?

Dark preference is coming to Safari. I'm currently updating all my sites to incorporate this right now:
https://webkit.org/blog/8475/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-68/

tl;dr;

 

[slylandro_probe]

I agree. This would be a fantastic feature to have on MacRumors.

As an aside: is anyone else having trouble seeing the text in the reply box? For me, the text is totally black and the box is grey, so I can hardly read anything in it. I'm actually writing this reply in a text editor because I can't even read what I'm writing on the MacRumors reply box itself.

 

[jtara]

MDN (which is usually reliable) botched the description of prefers-color-scheme I think...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme

The prefers-color-scheme CSS media feature is used to detect if the user has requested that the system minimize the amount of animation or motion it uses

They don't list browser compatibility, nor does CaniUse.com list it, and it's shown as a draft standard.

So, don't expect much support yet.

This is the right way to do it, though, rather than just arbitrarily changing the color scheme. White-background sites are of course going to look awkward when viewed on a dark-theme desktop.

A light/dark theme option seems silly, given that there IS an emerging standard.