Way to make the forums dark

[xerxes2]

Would it be possible to switch to dark skin for the forums? Or possibly make it a user setting? Maybe it already exists but i couldn't find it? Darkreader looks terrible with thiese forums haha.

[doktor5000]

Would it be possible in theory? Yes.
Will there be any changes to the forums in reality? Probably not.

We've had so many requests for improvals, and not even the smaller ones were implemented, due to the lack of people with the knowledge how to implement them AND the access/permissions to do it.
See e.g. https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Forums_todo_ ... oints_list

It's pretty sad, but that's how it is since quite some time.

[xerxes2]

I see, well I have to use Darkreader then but it looks rather terrible. Who the heck uses light skins nowadays??

[morgano]

Who the heck uses light skins nowadays??

Well I prefer it at least daytime.

Also for medical reasons light makes you happier

In early computing background was black for technical reasons. Mono text colour green or amber. I really liked amber...

My ZX80&81 screemed white background in my face, but got used to it. When Spectrum came i chose yellow frame so less white area...

Then my brother got Commodore 64, white on blue, Amiga too IIRC. Seems Microsoft initially got hooked on it too, i.e QuickBasic etc. And Mageia background is blue... heh.

I think dark/light preference is varying as fashion, but also technical possibilities, usage and users visual environment...

[xerxes2]

Yeah sure. But for us that don't want to look right into a lamp it should at least be a user option, like ie Youtube and Twitter have. Soon enough we will all be using oled monitors anyway and those work better with dark skins. Heck even Gnome has a user setting to choose light or dark skin.

[morgano]

Thank you for the tip on the extension Dark Reader
This time of evening it can be nice.

I remember when I re-purposed some special high end monitor i got surplus 25-30 years ago, to EGA and rewired the colour signal logic to make own scheme... i.e fully negative.
A bit harder to play with hardware nowadays.

[doktor5000]

Well you could grab some CSS theme and adapt it to our forum, then add them to your browser with stylish. See some examples here: https://userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=phpBB

[xerxes2]

Thank you for the tip on the extension Dark Reader
This time of evening it can be nice.

I remember when I re-purposed some special high end monitor i got surplus 25-30 years ago, to EGA and rewired the colour signal logic to make own scheme... i.e fully negative.
A bit harder to play with hardware nowadays.

Yeah Darkreader is awesome. It works pretty well 90% of the time or so. This forum looks ugly though. The rest of Mageia looks just fine with it.

[xerxes2]

Well you could grab some CSS theme and adapt it to our forum, then add them to your browser with stylish. See some examples here: https://userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=phpBB

Ahh, I forgot about this solution. I feel way too lazy to make my own css but it's probably just to use some existing ones that are dark. Will see if I try this later.

[doktor5000]

FWIW, you could try the extension https://www.petasittek.com/dark-mode-everywhere/ instead, seems to work pretty well.

[xerxes2]

Yeah I'm trying that now doc. Looks better than darkreader on this forums i think yes.