Brunners 7,982 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 41 minutes ago, Denzel Zanzibar said: You don't need to manually activate it. If your phone, tablet or laptop supports it, it'll switch to Dark Mode automatically. So long as you have the setting turned on. I had to turn it on in my windows settings to get it to work with chrome. Link to post Share on other sites
Denzel Zanzibar 6,971 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 7 minutes ago, Brunners said: So long as you have the setting turned on. I had to turn it on in my windows settings to get it to work with chrome. Oh obviously, I just meant you don't have to toggle it via a link on each website. Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,339 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 It's just a black screen and white text, right? I'm by no means a tech expert but isn't that just altering the website code thingy to change the background to black from white and the text to white from black? Rob isn't gonna get a Nobel Prize for it or anything like that? Link to post Share on other sites
Denzel Zanzibar 6,971 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 It's not QUITE as simple as that but yeah, basically. Link to post Share on other sites
wilsoncgp 9,280 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 It's a bit more nuanced than that usually, dark mode isn't just inverting all the colours, it's a theme as much as any other theme. On a site that has just one theme, it could be the process of setting up the site to allow for different themes to show as well as the theme itself. Of course, I'm pretty sure this site is built on top of other software(?) so there might be some existing stuff in there to allow for that theme to change without any code or such and just getting the colours right so it doesn't look it isn't just swapping black with white and vice versa. Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,339 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 Yeah, it kinda feels like it's about 5 mins of changing a bit of code and 3 days of talking about it to make it seem complicated 🤓 Link to post Share on other sites
AnglianRed 6,320 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 21 hours ago, oneboro said: @Brunners, @SouthernSmoggie, @Lord_Moose, @Denzel Zanzibar, @AnglianRed Dark Mode now enabled for you all. Message me if you spot any bugs or notice anything strange 👍. @sanddancer it's a relatively new features on phones and operating systems Tried it on both my phone and PC and it looks great! No issues that I've found as yet. Thanks! 😊 Link to post Share on other sites
oneboro 160 Posted December 20, 2019 Author Share Posted December 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Changing Times said: Yeah, it kinda feels like it's about 5 mins of changing a bit of code and 3 days of talking about it to make it seem complicated 🤓 Don’t tempt me into undoing it! But if anyone does want a more in-depth explanation about the changes, I’m happy to chat through 👍 Link to post Share on other sites
sanddancer 1,967 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 9 hours ago, AnglianRed said: No, thats just changing the brightness, contrast etc. "Dark mode" in the forum sense means you get a black (or other dark-coloured background) and white text, instead of the usual black text on white screen. 😉 I think it was originally developed so people could use their phones at night (in bed or whatever) without disturbing other people. Phones screens do put out a surprising amount of light. My iPhone has dark mode I use all the time.. it’s called dark mode but it does not work on all applications all the time. Link to post Share on other sites
SmogDane 4,055 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 So, I have now joined the dark side! Fixed it in my windows settings on my pc! So far it looks great! Thanx, Rob! And thanx to the helping commentors! Link to post Share on other sites
BearSmog 1,382 Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Slight glitch on my predictions this morning... Link to post Share on other sites
oneboro 160 Posted January 12, 2020 Author Share Posted January 12, 2020 I've been making some updates to the Dark Mode based on feedback, along with fixing some bugs. @BearSmog, it looks like this could have been a formatting issue in the reply box which I'll take a further look into. Any other feedback on this is appreciated, as I'm going to start to plan to roll this out across the board to logged in and logged out users 👍 Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,299 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 So I’ve changed to dark mode in my phone setting but it doesn’t seem to change the layout of the websites in safari. The keyboard has changed and the top bar but the browser window is still bright as before. Do I need to change anything else? Link to post Share on other sites
oneboro 160 Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 @Borodane I have now enabled this for your account 👍 Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,299 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, oneboro said: @Borodane I have now enabled this for your account 👍 Thanks. Takes a bit getting used to, but looks crisp. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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