cohost support

i'll never understand why anyone would think "i'm making a dark mode for my website. posts should have bright white backgrounds, right?"

hope the team is able to prioritize accessibility issues like this soon,  as I'm sure it will take some time to get a response/solution  due to the massive influx of new users.  

in regards to themes messing up custom css, maybe you could force a specific theme for your post, and have an accessibility "click to show" option for those posts, as we have for 18+ content.

for now I'd recommend using a workaround like the dark reader browser extension. By default it has a blacklist system where it is active on all sites except the ones on your blacklist, but you can choose the "inverted site list" option to only activate it on the sites  you desire to.

While I like the current dark mode I also totally agree it'd be great to have an option for a "true" dark mode that affects the posts themselves. I know many people who prefer a fully dark theme and I think this would make them more likely to wanna use cohost more.

Having a good actual dark mode that eliminates most of the bright colors would be pretty nice, if only to just have more options for viewing. As Arachnixe said getting a quick-and-dirty fix in would go a long way.

This simple but vital accessibility feature was suggested a year ago and was flagged as "planned," but no mention on actually implementing it has been made by staff since. Is there any movement on this? When can we expect this to be implemented on the site? Why has ASSC neglected to implement this?

i just wanna weigh in and add that i would very much like this, at night it is really hard on my eyes to have black text on a blinding white background.  i do dark mode by default wherever i can, and if i can't, i look to userstyles (sadly none for cohost yet!).  even my word processor is in dark mode lol.  i will pay many donkey for this. 

Any dark mode would be welcome. It's a pretty basic expectation from most social media and cohost is particularly bright by default.

I feel that one reason to not have a full dark mode is the fact that some posts rely on the bright background for their effects.

I suggest adding a "suggest bright background" option to posts and allow folks to set a preference to "always"/"never"/"ask" to use the bright background.

i’d definitely like this as well!! the current dark mode style is practically equivalent to light mode for me because i don’t use my web browser in full screen mode, so i get the mobile layout even on a computer.

the only concern i’d have about this feature is that css posts could no longer rely on the default post colors. existing css posts would look broken, and new posts would have to take care to preview posts both in light and dark mode. (perhaps the post composer could detect css and show a button in the preview tab to switch the color scheme, so that people remember) ((css media queries would also be useful…))

@switchback, et al, fwiw there are some user script themes that include dark mode and can be edited to one's preference. Dark Pumpkin and Mastodon may be useful for you. However it's only for desktop, not mobile, and only a bandage until staff has a moment to examine current site themes.

It's at the bottom of this post https://cohost.org/kiophen/post/466503-cohost-userscripts

Even as I've grown used to the current mode, and I don't quite have the issues everyone else does

*even in the current dark mode, the white background of posts burns into my laptop's screen if i leave the tab open for any amount of time*

so just throw that onto the pile of reasons we need *actual dark mode*