Native dark theme on forums

seanblue · May 30, 2018, 3:12am

Can we get a native dark theme for the forums please? My eyes thank you for your consideration.

EiriMatsu · May 30, 2018, 3:16am

This is my favorite feedback post yet. Seconded!

Belthazar · May 30, 2018, 5:33am

What? You don’t enjoy being bathed in a radioactive rain of a thousand dying suns?

plantron · August 1, 2019, 4:36am

Radish8 · May 30, 2018, 10:01am

…while we’re at it could we get a dark theme for WaniKani itself?

please don’t tell me there is one already and I just haven’t noticed it

I mean, please do, because I want to use it, but I’ll be upset with myself for a while

Kumirei · May 30, 2018, 10:06am

There are several dark themes for WK, just no native dark theme

Radish8 · May 30, 2018, 10:08am

Yep, sorry, I should have specified. I know there are dark themes, but it would be nice if there were a native one.

Thanks for pointing them out to me though.

seanblue · May 31, 2018, 4:27pm

@CyrusS Not sure if you’re the right person to tag for this. What are your thoughts on adding a dark theme for the forums?

Kumirei · May 31, 2018, 4:32pm

We should add that WK wouldn’t need to write one of their own, there are several dark themes in the repo already.

seanblue · May 31, 2018, 4:36pm

Yeah, I figured that would be the case, but I didn’t want to state it as a fact since I didn’t know for sure. Thanks for mentioning.

CyrusS · May 31, 2018, 6:04pm

I don’t do any of the development side of things, so I’m afraid I’m the wrong person to ask. Personally, I wouldn’t mind one, but I wouldn’t be doing any of the work to make it happen, so my opinion doesn’t really count for much here.

sornvru · May 31, 2018, 6:17pm

That’s not true. We value your opinion so much. That’s why the question was directed to you.

seanblue · May 31, 2018, 6:50pm

@viet @oldbonsai Thoughts?

viet · June 1, 2018, 12:37am

Wasn’t aware this was an option:

I’ll look more into it.

Dfulvio · June 1, 2018, 1:10am

This would be good!

Paraselene · June 1, 2018, 5:12am

I know two quick solutions to the problem of white background and black text.

Use your OS’s invert color program.
A) On Mac OS this is the hotkey “Control-Option-Command-8” and if you need to activate the hotkey it’s here: https://i.imgur.com/FxC8EoG.png
B) On Windows OS open Magnifier and press “Control-Alt-I” to toggle inverted colors.
Install Deluminate on Chrome. The hotkey is “Shift-F11” and it’s nice because it doesn’t invert some images and useful color schemes.
*Note: I don’t know about similar addons for Firefox, Opera, Edge, Safari, IE, etc.
**Another Note: I don’t know a simple, fast solution for phone users beyond screen dimming programs: screen dimmer by Sébastien Morand is an example for Andriod phones.

It would be cool if more sites had a dark/light setting, but in the meantime this is how I fix this issue.

OH and there’s a third option:
3) Stylish. Try it out!

viet · June 1, 2018, 6:40am

Change theme by updating your settings here. The dark theme is just the dark preset of Discourse. It needs tweaking (like the logo…), but I’ll get around to it later.

Kumirei · August 1, 2019, 4:36am

I just happen to already have a version of the logo with white text that I use for my transparent theme, if you want to hotfix it.

Comparison

viet · June 1, 2018, 6:45am

Ahh thanks. I’ll get it installed now.

Radish8 · June 1, 2018, 7:11am

My eyes are so happy, thank you.