Enable dark theme

[pinniini]

Are there any plans to enable dark theme on this site? It seems that the Discourse-platform should have dark theme bundled in by default.

[Allstar12345]

Second this please, my eyes are burning

[hsjpekka]

I would prefere ambience colors and background. But also dark would be an improvement.

[paulvt]

Please let it also be automatic, like other sites!

[Michael]

Badly needed. On Firefox I can force dark theme, but on the crappy SFOS browser, not so easily.

[Allstar12345]

Michael Use Webcat, I’m sure it has a dark mode built into it; it’s also a better browser overall.

[tanghus]

I think these are the instructions?

Automatic Dark Mode color scheme switching

[d.d]

I can’t fint it under my settings, someone was able to?

[peterleinchen]

First: this setting is meant for site administration purpose/decision, not for the user to activate afaiu.
Second: SFOS does not have a ‘dark mode’.

And, yes WebCat has a dark mode and https://try.discourse.org works for WebCat as well as Fennec/Firefox in dark mode.
(whereas in case of WebCat you also need the QtWebKit libraries of leszek from his openrepos repository!

[smatkovi]

You can set your browser to display every site “dark” you can type as url about:config then search for color and make settings similar like these

browser_display_document_use should be set to 2 (always on)

or if you use Firefox from android you can download the dark reader extension and set the contrast to maximum

[vlagged]

But is this working automatically with 4.5.0.16 now for the forum?

[pherjung]

I forgot where I read that, but some modifications are needed to provide a dark mode.

[pmelas]

Go to settings/apps/browser/settings and choose preferred colour scheme at the bottom.

Bear in mind the dark mode should be supported by tge visiting site too

[marcelpol]

Anyone know what a Dark Mode Ambience would need to support this in the browser and in webcat? My Ambience has ‘“colorScheme”: “lightondark”’ but dark mode doesn’t work automatically on that discourse website.

[smatkovi]

you can go into about:config in the browser, then search for color and then make settings like these in the screenshot

the browser.display.document_color_use=2 is essential to activate your color settings

[marcelpol]

Sure, for a user that is a good setting.

But for a developer, if you want to offer the automatic dark mode. How do you set that in an Ambience?

[smatkovi]

Maybe it is possible to edit the settings files directly?