Dark Mode
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Congrats and thank you for the forum update, I'm sure the new features will be appreciated. This new post editor seems neat already (autosave and minimize features)
But we lost our dark mode. You can go to your settings and choose a skin, but unfortunately none of them really match a true dark mode. Just wanted to make those aware for whoever might be looking for it.
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I had dark mode selected prior to the update - and got still dark mode after it:
Have you tried to clean your browser cache related to the FAF forum, or maybe an ad-blocker extension is causing a side effect related to the new theme?
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@magge Interesting, your screenshot still looks like the old forum. Mine looks much different now. It might be you that needs to clear cache?
Cleared my cache anyway but no luck.
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Ha! Nice catch. Thanks for pointing it out. Yeah, I somehow did not realize it, because it looked so smooth. I experience the same issue as you after deleting the cache. I believe it should be added to the announcement, not sure when the cache expires by default.
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You have to select the design "
Darkly" "Cyborg" in your userprofilesettings and hit the save button, and you should have dark mode again:
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Yea, I tried that one and Cyborg. Neither one are really true dark mode. There's still plenty of fields like this text box that's bright white. Compare this screenshot to yours.
Also, in terms of readability, it's kind of a downgrade. I don't mean to complain, I understand a forum update was bound to happen eventually. Just unfortunate
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Similar problem including mobile devices where there is no ad block whatsoever
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Had a look for other themes, but many seem just outdated/broken. There were like 3-4 dark'ish themes in the updated version but each had some "plain" layout stuff or like in this post noted eye burning bright boxes. Perhaps one can be easily edited by simply changing two color values?
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@SainseRow said in Dark Mode:
Similar problem including mobile devices where there is no ad block whatsoever
Like this slate theme, just change color value of the input box and its text would go a long way.
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Wow, I pressed quote on my own message but it replied to SainseRow
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I'm pretty sure that brutus doesn't know better than anyone else here how to edit forum themes. So everyone is welcome to make contributions
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I can give it a shot if allowed. I used to host forums back in the day and am a software dev now.
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Please do! The available darkmodes are pretty bad.
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Is there a repo for the forums? I'm not seeing it
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I meant for the FAF forum
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That is the forum we are using. There are no modifications made by faf
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Following this simple tutorial, I was able to setup a decent dark mode /w toggle in ~5 minutes of copy/pasting and figuring out where things were in the admin panel. There's a couple minor colors that could probably use changing, but it's much better than the skins we have access to right now.
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17109/manual-build-a-night-mode-for-harmony/2Unfortunately it only works well for the Harmony theme, and we're using the Persona theme. So either we can switch to Harmony and use the dark mode from that tutorial as is, or we can tweak the CSS for Persona. If Persona, I just want to know if I go through the effort that it'll be implemented. Will someone take the time to add it in the admin panel if I provide the CSS & JS or give me access to do so?
Demo:
Fun fact, that admin panel has a dark mode toggle already
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Is it possible to modify the font size as well? Text is very small, both on mobile and desktop
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Indeed, the default 100% zoom makes everything too small for the FAF website template, I have changed the zoom via my browser to 140% for the website. Font size can also be changed by your browser. You can change it in your settings or use CTRL+mouse wheel to zoom in.
