Skara Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Yo. I like my eyesight and want to keep it Seriously though, Would it be possible to have a dark(er) mode/theme available? Would put much less stress on our precious mk1 eyeball sighting systems, as spares are quite hard to come by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin proffrink Posted April 16, 2020 Root Admin Share Posted April 16, 2020 Give me 30 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin proffrink Posted April 16, 2020 Root Admin Share Posted April 16, 2020 Ok, try it out. Scroll to the footer and under the 'theme' drop-down you should see the dark theme test. Relying on you lot to report any problems with it so that I can fix them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skara Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 mmkay, where am I supposed to find it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin proffrink Posted April 16, 2020 Root Admin Share Posted April 16, 2020 Refresh. Should be there now. Next to 'contact us'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skara Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 Seems to be working well! Will update if I find some weird stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin proffrink Posted April 16, 2020 Root Admin Share Posted April 16, 2020 Particularly around the classifieds where I have made a lot of custom edits to better suit us, but this might require flicking between the light and dark theme (which isn't something I'd expect you to do). If you see anything that you remember being different in the light theme (that isn't just colour) that's the kind of thing I'm looking for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skara Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 Think I found something already, the various buttons colours need to be redone. Some are contrasting too much, others are barely visible. Just now, proffrink said: Particularly around the classifieds where I have made a lot of custom edits to better suit us, but this might require flicking between the light and dark theme (which isn't something I'd expect you to do). If you see anything that you remember being different in the light theme (that isn't just colour) that's the kind of thing I'm looking for nvm my last Will have a look Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin proffrink Posted April 16, 2020 Root Admin Share Posted April 16, 2020 Just screenshot them and send them over if you like. I will surely be doing another pass some time this week anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skara Posted April 19, 2020 Author Share Posted April 19, 2020 The "latest" statuses/threads/posts/adverts tabs have disappeared from the mobile version. They do show up just fine in light mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin proffrink Posted May 13, 2020 Root Admin Share Posted May 13, 2020 How are we getting on with this? Has anyone noticed any issues with the template or is this good to go out of 'testing'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DrAlexanderTobacco Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 14 minutes ago, proffrink said: How are we getting on with this? Has anyone noticed any issues with the template or is this good to go out of 'testing'? I just found this thread - this is a lot better already. I don't like having the white quick-reply box though, although that might just be better for text formatting purposes I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin proffrink Posted May 13, 2020 Root Admin Share Posted May 13, 2020 Likewise I think a few of the buttons are still showing in a light grey/white, which needs fixing. I'll do another pass on it this weekend and then we'll announce it. If anyone else has some feedback for me please let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators djben9 Posted May 14, 2020 Moderators Share Posted May 14, 2020 think the light these is easier to read, defines the areas better, found dark not as expected when you look at outlook/teams etc.?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin proffrink Posted May 14, 2020 Root Admin Share Posted May 14, 2020 Most dark modes use black and white, not dark blue and white. I might try both. By the way, the light theme will always stay default (if that was the worry). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seven Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 My eyes approve this option! 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators djben9 Posted May 15, 2020 Moderators Share Posted May 15, 2020 dark theme does show the gold border better! text just looks to faint and the insert button is hard to read.... but when you edit a message...much easier, to see can that be the dark theme default? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostly Retired Moderators L3wisD Posted May 15, 2020 Mostly Retired Moderators Share Posted May 15, 2020 Only just spotted this thread! As an avid Dark Mode user on most things, I certainly approve! Would like a nice slate grey for the reply box though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DrAlexanderTobacco Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Something that just clicked for me: With the light theme, threads are marked as read after visiting them, with no new posts. The same is true for the dark theme, but it's not clear enough owing to how new threads are merely bolded. Maybe switch text to grey once read? E: TBH, change all text to grey if possible - appreciate it's personal preference but the below screenshot shows the difference between the two. Grey is much nicer on the eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin proffrink Posted August 8, 2020 Root Admin Share Posted August 8, 2020 The colours on all these links have now changed because it was causing problems in the text entry areas (such as composing a topic or reply). The style for these areas is inherited from the same colours set for any link on the website that isn't explicitly a menu item or something really important. So now the two different shades of blue will be present on the dark theme too (identical to the light). Hopefully this the secondary effect of making read topics more obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Rogerborg Posted August 12, 2020 Supporters Share Posted August 12, 2020 I've just noticed this, it's ace. Now there's no sudden glare when I tab between AFUK, Twitter, Facebook and PornHub. 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaBear Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Oh, I'm liking this.... let's what it's like in the dark under my bed covers... IO hazard to think it may be a tad difficult to read text but will report back later... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltom Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 this is brilliant 👍👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brophy Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 @proffrink I did something similar for one of my community websites, but instead of trying to maintain two separate themes, I maintained one (to keep up with new updates) and added a little bit of javascript code to add a "lights out" button on the website which would append a "lights-out" class attribute to the main body element of the website, then you can add a `body.lights-out` in css and just maintain a css style which would override default if they button had been clicked, this can be saved per user session using `localStorage` too. PM me on here or discord if you think it might be easier to go down this route and I'll show you some examples and how to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin proffrink Posted September 9, 2020 Root Admin Share Posted September 9, 2020 This forum update patch brings with it a bunch of new theme changes, so expect the dark theme to be broken for a little while as I update this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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