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just make that slate gray background a plate of Buck's brisket and a slab of ribs...

44 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

just checking in to say that dark mode would be dope.

you’re always in dark mode. 

Titan looks pretty cool.

4 hours ago, slorch said:

Titan looks pretty cool.

yeah, i thought Titan was cool at first.  Definitely like the chameleon better.

I'm cool with Chameleon Dark. That would be a huge improvement over this Blinding White. Thanks, immamac.

Chameleon Dark looks cool - also like Deflection. 

Also also - the background images don't "stick" when you change them. I like the gray one but I have to change it every time I log in. 

Titan or Chameleon for me.

Dark mode is the only way anyone should browse forums.

So, when is this getting rolled out? Very much looking forward to it.

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1 hour ago, immamac said:

Dark Theme is enabled as "Chameleon Dark - ipsfocus"

Looks good, but it removes the forum quick links at the top of the pages, can we get those added?

Edited by TKthunder2

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8 hours ago, immamac said:

Ah shit I knew I forgot something - I'll add those right now, I put them in the footer, but not up top!!

Quotes on the dark theme are very difficult to read.  Take the below post for the recruiting board for example.

 

That's due to the imported styling on the quoted text and not the quote itself. Check it out without dark theme enabled to see what I mean the font is colored so that if the background changes it will be hard to read. 

There is an option to format all copy and paste data as plain text, but I think people prefer to keep the formatting, let me know if that isn't the case and I'm happy to change it to plain text because I personally can't stand importing formatting

The plain text is WAY better, I select it every single time I quote anything.

 

A little more contrast between the read/unread threads on Dark would be cool, they’re pretty close as is. 

On the dark theme, do you have any CSS control?

This is a "fine tuning" request -- on the list of topics on any given board, the difference between "read" and "unread" titles isn't distinct enough (like it is on other themes).

Suggestion - either increase the "font-weight" on the unread topics or change the "color" on the read topics from white to something a little more gray.  Whatever looks good and/or is easiest to give a little more distinction.

I really like the dark theme - just having a tad bit of trouble distinguishing read from unread that I didn't have before.

2 hours ago, MoJames said:

How do you initiate the dark thing on tapa/mobile.

Go to the main area of TT.

Settings > check box the setting called Night Reading Mode.

There are two unread threads here, guess. 

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See how ridiculously close that is? 

Edited by spystud13

Can someone explain to an idoit how I can use this dark theme feature on my desktop and phone?

Scroll to the very bottom of the page, click the drop down next to Theme, select Surly Main - Dark. 

Click on the Theme link toward the bottom of the page. Select Dark.

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20 hours ago, immamac said:

Are the unreads better now?

If you could make the read thread titles the same font color as the "By (name), (date)" line or the "action bubbles to the left of the title" it would probably be perfect.

(e.g., gray instead of white - the BOLD unread titles and the regular read titles are both white -- still takes a sec to mentally process the font weight)

18 minutes ago, immamac said:

I don't think I can unfortunately I'll explore in the CSS, but I think the text for both is linked. OR I can change the text color for the bolded one as the regular text inherits from the global css and doesn't have it's own.

Oooh ... try that!  Maybe the bolded burnt orange for *unread* topics?  And the regular white text for *read* topics?

Edited by RamjetFDO

Just now, immamac said:

I tried that and it looks like dogshit lol too much burnt orange

Oh you aggy... there's no such thing.  ;)

Really like the dark theme. Thanks!

@immamac is it possible to have the Dark Theme as well as having avatars turned off? I changed to Dark on my computer and avatars are showing up.

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