Dark theme/skin for forum

[adrianr]

Any chance Damo? Something a bit more night browsing friendly? Pretty please?

 

[Danamy]

Wear sunglasses, it works a treat

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

if it can't win to get the forum to be bluer, then you sure as hell ain't winning to make it dark.

 

[kippax kid]

It is way to fooking bright, something chilled for night reading .

 

[kippax kid]

And I don't mean a book about Antarctic fooking Penguins ;)

 

[aguero93:20]

Use the brightness control on your computer/phone maybe?

 

[steviemc]

And I don't mean a book about Antarctic fooking Penguins ;)

Sure ?

 

[yeseye]

I've just changed mine to a white on Black skin on iPhone 5s and it's great for a bit of

 

[adrianr]

Use the brightness control on your computer/phone maybe?

Both my phone screen and computer screen are very dark, but brightness is perceptual. In a dark room or at night it's still bleedin' bright looking at a white webpage.

 

[Damocles]

Any chance Damo? Something a bit more night browsing friendly? Pretty please?

Nowt to do with me mate, I just do the server and databasestuff. Ric owns the site and does all the user interface type of things.

If you have problem with brightness on your desktop PC then I'd definitely recommend https://justgetflux.com/

Changed my computing life it did, possibly the best piece of software I regularly use outside of 7zip.

Any chance of a dark theme @Ric?

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

https://justgetflux.com/

Don't know what I did to deserve this.

Oh no, wait... carry on...

 

[Ric]

After moving to the new forum software I was keen to just have one consistent theme/skin for all users. We had two running concurrently on the old forum, and it was a ballache having to update both each time I made a change.

The fact that relatively few people have flagged brightness as an issue makes me think it's more likely settings on your device/monitor rather than the design that are the problem.

I'm always open to suggestions on how to improve things though, so please feel free to mention other sites/themes you like and I'll happily look at them and see if there's anything we can take from them to improve Bluemoon.

 

[adrianr]

After moving to the new forum software I was keen to just have one consistent theme/skin for all users. We had two running concurrently on the old forum, and it was a ballache having to update both each time I made a change.

The fact that relatively few people have flagged brightness as an issue makes me think it's more likely settings on your device/monitor rather than the design that are the problem.

I'm always open to suggestions on how to improve things though, so please feel free to mention other sites/themes you like and I'll happily look at them and see if there's anything we can take from them to improve Bluemoon.

Fair enough, but it's definitely not monitor settings. I'll be one of the very few people browsing this forum on a dark calibrated display! Unfortunately in a dark room a bright page, even on a dim monitor, will be perceptually very bright. As you say it doesn't seem something other members are bothered by so I'll just find an add-on to invert it or similar.

 

[BlueTangerine]

If you use google chrome you can download High Contrast extension. There are a few options but the inverted looks like this.

It's alright but for some reason it makes the slidebar very small and creates a lot of empty screen., not really an issue though.