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#1

Dear administrator, could you add a dark theme for this discourse forum, please. kicad, transifex, openwrt and mozilla discourses already has dark theme and it looks fine.
Dark theme tires eyes significant less and saves eyesight.

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#2

FYI, this has come up before:

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#3

I’ve seen it. It’s closed now without solution.

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#4

From Allow users to select dark mode theme :

But I think he has higher priority issues right now :slightly_smiling_face: (2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bug)

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#5

I asked openwrt discourse administrator, and just checked it myself on the fresh locally installed discourse 2.5.0.beta2:

Dark theme comes out of the box.
You can easily add more themes from the administration interface.

It seems that dark theme has been disabled, as letsencrypt’s discourse runs just a previous version (2.5.0.beta1). Just go to the https://community.letsencrypt.org/admin/customize/themes and enable it for users:
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#6

I don’t believe he has no time to toggle the checkbox.

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#7

If there is only Light theme in the list:

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you should press Install -> Create new Fill the name, “Dark” for example with type Theme:

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and then, on the next step, assign the Dark color palette and make it available for users:

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#8

Thank you for those details. If it’s that simple, maybe @jsha can find the time to do it :slightly_smiling_face:

The problem with tasks with low priority, it’s when you don’t know how simple they are before you are doing them!

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#9

Admins of opencellid and syncthing discourses have successfully applied these instructions.

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#10

For some reason the “Dark” theme is not preinstalled on our instance - perhaps because it was created before the Dark theme existed?

There was also no “Dark” theme available in the list of popular themes to install. However, I saw that the “Vincent” theme has a dark mode, so I installed that. It’s now user-selectable in https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/<your username>/preferences/interface.

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Allow users to select dark mode theme
#11

Thanks! This will save my eyes! :nerd_face: Now I can take these off. :sunglasses:

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#12

Thank you for that theme @jsha! :partying_face:

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#13

It’s not there. :wink:

“Dark” is only a color palette.

Go to https://community.letsencrypt.org/admin/customize/themes and create a new theme (install -> create new) give it a name, select the dark palette and make it available for users to select. :wink:

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#14

The Vincent theme has a dark palette and is available now. I’m using it! :blush:

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#15

So does the default one. (I really don’t like the vincent theme :smiley:)

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#16

vincent looks strange, could you add a dark palette for the default theme please

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#17

Thanks for the tip. I tried it but the dark palette does not show up:
Screenshot from 2020-04-13 11-04-37

If you’d like to ask for some advice on the Discourse support forum https://meta.discourse.org/ you are welcome to! You can tell them I sent you. :slight_smile:

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