What theme should we use for the forums?

2020-02-29 08:25

There is a growing "holy war" with tech users with "Light Mode vs Dark Mode". As a grumpy old developer of the 90's, I prefer to look at white screens when I develop code, while all the high school kids I coach in robotics, always run in dark mode. I prefer the forums in light mode, but maybe we should fit the theme of the rest of the app and go to a dark theme.

Either way, if you have some web development skills and want to take a shot and giving me a color scheme to try, I will take a look. The forums are built to be reusable with multiple apps, so the colors are all driven off a central configuration. If you "view source" on the page you can see all the colors that can be configured in the style block at the top of the page.

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2020-02-29 11:18

Here is a beta dark theme made by copying the colors used by the Dark Reader addon. Unlike the rest of the app it's not completely black though, so it could probably use some adjustment.

https://pastebin.com/FtZUK58e

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2020-02-29 11:56

AgentConDier said:

Here is a beta dark theme made by copying the colors used by the Dark Reader addon. Unlike the rest of the app it's not completely black though, so it could probably use some adjustment.

Thanks! I'll take a look tomorrow.

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2020-03-23 20:47

I personally prefer absolute black if I'm using an OLED screen. It just makes it easier on my eyes.

However, for regular LED it just looks grey anyway, so white is fine and I turn the brightness down.

Ideally, being able to toggle it would be great, but I don't know what that entails.

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