[VOTE] Light or Dark theme? Prevent Eye Cancer now!

NeoonNeoon OG
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Ladies and Gentleman,

I come today to you, to address a serious concern.
My session expired and I got logged out.
The default theme is light theme, I ended up getting eye cancer.

So here I am, asking you, to take part in a democratic vote, to change the default theme to dark.
I am also asking, the administration, to accept the result of this democratic vote.

Amen.

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Should the default theme changed from light to dark?
  1. Should the default theme changed from light to dark?46 votes
    1. Yes
      52.17%
    2. No
      47.83%
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  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith AdministratorProviderOG
    edited November 11

    Sometimes I feel like I am being watched.... this is actually what I am working on.

    Edit: Agreed

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  • jmaxwelljmaxwell

    OMG please do
    one accidental logout away from eye cancer..don't wanna live with that kinda stress.

    Why?

  • qmioqmio

    Why not add an option:Auto（Follow System） =)

  • lukgthlukgth

    I prefer the light theme over dark theme on LES...

    ...I may be a monster. :o

  • xorxor

    I've always found the light theme to be fine except at night so it would be good if we could get a 'follow system' option (although I wouldn't want to cause an unnecessary work for @AnthonySmith)

  • DecicusDecicus OG

    @xor said:
    I've always found the light theme to be fine except at night so it would be good if we could get a 'follow system' option (although I wouldn't want to cause an unnecessary work for @AnthonySmith)

    Yeah, I'd say that ideally it just follows prefers-color-scheme as a default for "guests".

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  • dbadudedbadude

    dark theme gives me a headache

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  • msattmsatt ProviderOG
    edited November 11

    I actually use Light on LES and Dark on LET so it is easy to tell the difference.
    edit
    So as long as I can set the theme, I don't care what the default is.
    Suppose apart from Ant doing a reboot / clearout etc, why would you log out anyway?

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  • tulipyuntulipyun

    Please do make sure to do this

  • PlatonksPlatonks
    edited November 11

    Neither, there is a grey theme on LES which i use

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  • SwordfishBESwordfishBE OG

    @lukgth said:
    I prefer the light theme over dark theme on LES...

    ...I may be a monster. :o

    I am an in-betweener.. grey

  • ba796ba796

    @Neoon said:
    Ladies and Gentleman,

    I come today to you, to address a serious concern.
    My session expired and I got logged out.
    The default theme is light theme, I ended up getting eye cancer.

    So here I am, asking you, to take part in a democratic vote, to change the default theme to dark.
    I am also asking, the administration, to accept the result of this democratic vote.

    Amen.

    The dark theme sometimes blends into the adverts.. cant make out which is which.

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  • david3david3

    I generally prefer dark themes, but they need to have good contrast. For LES I use the light theme for better contrast.

    I think text should be pure white #fff on a dark theme and pure black #000 on a light theme. The background doesn't need to be pure black; sometimes that's a bit much, but it should be dark enough to still give good contrast.

    For the dark theme here, the text isn't pure white, and the background is too light. The vBulletin dark theme would be nice if the text were white instead of silver.

  • mizzikmizzik

    For the “light” theme, just wear sunglasses B)

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  • ZA_capetownZA_capetown

    In a democracy things should be fair, with everyone getting a chance... why is "grey" left out and not the 3rd option? :o :p

    Personally on my PC I have light themes as my default go-to for most things... but I'm slow with change, maybe I should start to give dark themes a try...

    I mean cough or grey :p

  • ascicodeascicode

    @msatt said:
    I actually use Light on LES and Dark on LET so it is easy to tell the difference.
    edit
    So as long as I can set the theme, I don't care what the default is.
    Suppose apart from Ant doing a reboot / clearout etc, why would you log out anyway?

    It logs out every 2 weeks automatic from here and OGF. Might be a vanilla option to increase.

  • SpeedBusSpeedBus ProviderOG

    @qmio said:
    Why not add an option:Auto（Follow System） =)

    yeah this would be the ideal solution ^

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  • xmrlistxmrlist

    Dark, but the real fix is the root cause in the first post: the theme choice disappears when the session expires. If the preference lived in its own long-lived cookie (separate from the login session), and logged-out visitors got whatever prefers-color-scheme says, nobody would get flashbanged after a logout, whichever side wins the vote.

  • mhubudmhubud OG
    edited November 11

    For websites that don't fully support dark yet (or their login widgets/etc don't), I've found that the Dark Reader extension works great as a fallback to ensure things remain dark. Been using it 10 years and it's updated regularly. https://darkreader.org/
    But yes, it would be nice if the default theme was dark mode.

  • TigersWayTigersWay OG

    Are we asking the right question?
    I believe - and this is only my own opinion - there is "mode" which is dark or light and should follow first the system default. And now we have themes, and these are the one we like or dislike. Everything on all my screens is on dark mode, but I read most "forums" in some light theme because every little grey detail may be important.

  • DetruireDetruire

    I use the dark theme, but setting it as the default might give a bad first impression. The current dark theme is a bit rough - it has the vibe of a light theme darkened with Dark Reader, rather than a native dark theme.

    I'm not entirely sure why that is, but it's at least partially because of the light corners on the weird highlighted threads, and the contrast levels feeling off in many places.

  • EvanPEvanP

    Dark theme mixing with colorful buttons banners icons gifs and badges is disastrous.

  • imokimok OG Not Administrator

    Currently it works, but it could be better.

    @AnthonySmith you can run Impeccable skills to fix the dark theme design https://impeccable.style/

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