Forum Dark Mode

[richb]

I'd just use an extention like "Dark Background and Light Text" for a Mozilla based browser, or something similar from the chrome store for chrome based browsers

Aside from the fact that those tools bork this site up as well....

How so?

[wulf]

I'd just use an extention like "Dark Background and Light Text" for a Mozilla based browser, or something similar from the chrome store for chrome based browsers

Aside from the fact that those tools bork this site up as well....

I can't speak for extensions from the chrome store, but using "Dark Background and Light Text", currently with Librewolf, but also previously with various incarnations of Firefox, I've never had a problem with the forum being displayed irregularly. Here's what I see when using the extension.

[richb]

I'd just use an extention like "Dark Background and Light Text" for a Mozilla based browser, or something similar from the chrome store for chrome based browsers

Aside from the fact that those tools bork this site up as well....

I can't speak for extensions from the chrome store, but using "Dark Background and Light Text", currently with Librewolf, but also previously with various incarnations of Firefox, I've never had a problem with the forum being displayed irregularly. Here's what I see when using the extension.

The native dark modes available in the web browser I would suspect work better than the extensions since they are are specifically written for the browsers

[AVLinux]

Hi,

To be clear I'm happy with how things are and I don't have a dog in this fight.. On the topic of phpBB Forums and dark themes I will mention I'm a member at linuxmusicians.com and they use phpBB as well. They have a phpBB add-on 'board styles' Plugin enabled which allows members to choose how the board appears and offers a few choices. The default forum look is similar to the MX default and I find the options are a great way to transform the somewhat dated looking phpBB default into something much more modern without requiring any special web extensions etc. since it's the native forum software. Here is a screenshot of the dark theme option 'Prosilver', pardon the Windows screenshot I'm working in my Win partition right now...

[wulf]

Aside from the fact that those tools bork this site up as well....

I can't speak for extensions from the chrome store, but using "Dark Background and Light Text", currently with Librewolf, but also previously with various incarnations of Firefox, I've never had a problem with the forum being displayed irregularly. Here's what I see when using the extension.

The native dark modes available in the web browser I would suspect work better than the extensions since they are are specifically written for the browsers

I like that I can easily play around with text, link, and background colour combinations in this extension, but, yes, I belive you are right. Since most browsers now feature their own built-in dark mode option, add-ons for that purpose are becoming superfluous.

[manyroads]

FWIW phpBB offers some 80+ dark themes. Presumably the webmaster here is able to make one or more selectable by readers here in their accounts.

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/styl ... es/dark-17

[richb]

FWIW phpBB offers some 80+ dark themes. Presumably the webmaster here is able to make one or more selectable by readers here in their accounts.

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/styl ... es/dark-17

I am aware of that.

[artytux]

Never a problem using Firefox dark mode that's in toolbar setting bottom of page - manage themes (if you didn't know) , still got Dark Background and Light Text addon some sites don't go to dark so instead of using the default setting found use of invert setting for pages like that that is good to fix problem.

[Aronticuz]

Dark mode gets my vote.
I get impression it is not a standardized thing and users have to opt for it themselves.

That may just be the way it is - but even likes of Wikipedia give it as a browser option

Light (bright)

2 1light.jpg

Dark (just right)

2 2dark.jpg

[FullScale4Me]

The Firefox extension Dark Background and Light Text is working great for me.

Super easy to add site exceptions compared to the other two under discussion here in this thread.