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Dark Modes / Themes

As much as I dig the colors for the default theme, the light background strains my eyes after a while, especially when reading big blocks of text. Darkmode / darker themes available for all users would be a very welcome feature. 


I have seen some things mentioning that Cohost Plus lets you / will let you modify the site's theme more deeply to your liking, but preset Dark Modes for all users, as an eyestrain-reducing accessibility feature is the key point here!


I would like to specifically note two types of darkmode I've seen used often in regards to this request:

  1. "Dark Mode" that is a darker background, but not solid #000000 black; a very dark gray or blue works well for this style of darkmode
  2. "OLED Dark Mode" that is solid #000000 black meant for OLED screens - I know some folks prefer this mode over lighter dark modes 
(personally, OLED of darkmode strains my eyes just as much as lightmode, but I know some folks prefer it, so I wanted to include it)


I would argue for both types of darkmode to be included if possible, for folks who need or prefer one type over the other.


Thanks!


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It looks like they have a dark mode tied to the system settings per https://help.antisoftware.club/support/solutions/articles/62000225008-how-do-i-turn-on-dark-light-mode-

However, as someone who prefers light mode for the system as a whole but dark mode on individual websites, I'd also very much prefer it be an explicit user setting.


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Oh neat! That's pretty clever


Though, I'm in the same boat (my windows theme uses light style for apps so that's what cohost is seeing) and I would also prefer it to be a user setting. Since it's already an "auto" style setting, could just be "Light, Dark, Auto" or something!


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For now a kind of complicated to set up solution is in this post https://cohost.org/sulfurousacid/post/3451794-after-a-search-it-ap#comment-4e1c0bf8-3d9c-4d68-ae1a-821f4e0c53f6 (Firefox nightly is the beta version of firefox mobile you can get it on the app store) Installation instructions are in the replies by twilight-sparkle

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Oh, the old "dark mode" was preserved, lovely <3


The new ("real") dark mode doesn't look bad either.

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