Hello. I’m not sure what’s going on, but my forum doesn’t have a dark mode, but if I install a new Discourse instance, I can see the colour palettes and user preferences for Dark mode. Any ideas what’s up> My forum - Admin: There’s no options in the Colour Palette dropdown. [image] My forum - User preferences: [image] A new Discourse instance - Admin: Colour palette options: [image] A new Discourse instance - User preferences: [image] Forum: [image] londonbikers.com London's motorcycling community. Established in 2004 to connect riders.

Thats odd. For now just create a new theme called dark and apply the dark colour scheme to it along side any theme components.

Ah, that did the trick. Thank you!

To get the extra ‘dark mode’ box I think you have to add two dark colour palettes (for my test I added dark and WCAG dark). I then also had to log-out and log back in again for the changes on my preference page to take effect. And removing the second dark colour palette (and logging-out and back in again) removed the second ‘dark mode’ dropdown.

Missing dark mode feature?

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JammyDodger September 26, 2021, 4:45pm 3

Can you go to /admin/customize/colors and add a dark colour palette there?

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