forum dark theme

Why don't you buy us one. Find your way to the donation button.

 

I might be wrong but I remember XenForo additions being quite expensive.
I'm not going to complain, XenForo is probably the best looking forum software, wouldn't want anything else.

 

White is much better looking.
Basic, clean and simple what els you need in your life?
From experience darker backgrounds in forums gives a lot of trouble with posts and threads in black color words

 

ever seen job application in black letter? ever seen an announcement by any type of system, news, country, game or anything els in black background?
I dont know about you but the last time i saw black paper was in my kindergarten while painting with chalks. Maybe you miss these days?
If i will send to any honored place an app in black background and white colored words they will tell me that i might got confused with them and art school.
Professionally talking, white is the best. People are specifically using it for good reason so don't tell me it gives eyestrain

 

The brightness from a white screen does give eye strain though. If you don't believe me check out the thousands of scientific articles avaible on this topic.
With that said, while a dark theme is great for people who sit a lot in front of a screen during the day it is incredibly hard to make it look good on forum. And there is also the text colour problem, black on black is not readable. A proper solution would have to alter text colours too.

 

It might give problems to some people on certain light heights but if so adjusting the screen lightning can help. I honestly never had problems with bright white screens so i can't tell how it affects you. But if we talk about efficiency white is much more convenient

 

My problems stems from having lightsensitive eyes, and having a job where im stationed in front of a PC all day.
I can still use the forum fine by lowering the screen brightness, but a dark theme would still be a huge help.

I do feel though, that people with a real handicap like colourblindness probably deserve a theme suited for them more than I deserve a dark theme that would help with eyestrain.

 

There's a grey theme, does that help with colourblindness?

 

I'm guessing that it helps a bit although names, titles, profile pictures and images still are coloured.
I can't tell you for sure since I'm not colourblind myself.

 

This suggestion is about changing the "theme", not just the background. I don't know where the whole "background" thing came from, but "darker theme" does not mean "change the background to black and leave the text black as well."
This is all very readable-
https://demo.themehouse.com/xf1/themes/

Brighter light= more eye strain. We have known this for centuries. (Millenniums?)

This is most definitely a website for a game, on a screen, not paper, not a job, and not a school. We wouldn't send a paper app full of Maple trees and clouds to a job either. The last thing I want to see when I come home from work and Maple my ass off is something that even remotely resembles a professional document.

No background-only changes, no paper, and yes brighter light = eye strain is a thing.

Sorry to just shit on everyone else's replies, but this is a 100% harmless and (potentially) helpful suggestion and it seems like the suggestion itself is getting shat on just the sake of shitting.

Say someone visits the forum and discovers that there is an optional (not even necessarily default) darker theme, and decides to try it. They discover that they don't like it and revert the change to a theme that prefer. Meanwhile, some other people choose the darker theme and have a (even if slightly) better experience on the forums. Some of them have neurological problems, like myself, and really benefit from darker screen output. As in, save a lot of excruciating pain, type benefit.

 

I'm not colorblind either but I think it would be worse for a colorblind person since the shades would theoretically be less vivid for them. I don't think a dark theme would help either. That blue cloudy one would probably be best for colorblindness, I would guess

 

I like the dark mode idea. I've seen in a few different websites and yeah, there's no problem with the text- as midnight said it's an entire theme which adjusts text to be white to stick out. An example of a website that implements dark mode is pokemonshowdown (settings on the top right corner).

As for colourblindness, you guys are being really silly. Colourblind people see different shades FINE, it's differentiating between different colours like red and green that is the problem. Dark theme, light theme, and gray theme will all be seen normally. Typically colourblindness is between red/green or blue/purple and iirc is common in subtle forms like not differentiating between more specific hues.

Example:

 

We added a dark theme called UI.X Dark, you can select it here:
https://forum.maplelegends.com/index.php?misc/style