How should I enable the “automatic dark mode color scheme” for all users overriding their account settings?

Perhaps you want the default dark mode color scheme id in admin-settings? [IMG_0393] Discourse settings bot says:

It’s set to dark color scheme A few users reported that this setting is not enabled for them and they having issues seeing the logo in dark mode after enabling the setting it fixes the issue. I was wondering why this setting is not enabled for all users. That’s why I was looking for a way to force…

[image] kynic: I was wondering why this setting is not enabled for all users. That’s why I was looking for a way to force enable for all users. You can’t do that from the interface. You can bulk update user options using a rails command, though it’s to be done with caution. I suggest you fi…

Thank you can you please tell me the rails commands? I have data explorer installed can you tell me script to see how many users have it enabled? Thank you for your help really appreciate it. :heart:

By default, the Dark Mode user setting is “Same as regular”. In the database, it’s defined by user_options.dark_scheme value being NULL. “Dark” is -1. Other values are positive integers. The query to return users that don’t have the default value would be: SELECT u.username, up.dark_sch…

I’m a bit confused now. Why would you like to break user’s choise of colors? If you wouldn’ want to give choises then uninstall every other color schemes than default light and dark. That’s it.

You can reset this preference for the users that changed it with this rails script: UserOption.where.not(dark_scheme_id: nil).find_each do |uo| uo.update(dark_scheme_id: nil) end I successfully used it on my test instance, but keep in mind I’m not a rails expert and, of course, always do a bac…

There are no choices. Just this setting is not enabled by default for many after I selected a dark color scheme for the automatic dark mode from the site settings. I want this to be enabled for all. But there are 59 users that don’t have this enabled by default don’t know why. …

Just to be clear, the setting in your screenshot is from the admin panel (server-wide), not a personal preference. The latter being: [image]

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kynic September 13, 2023, 2:22pm 9

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Now how I can bulk change their settings with rails commands?

Topic		Replies	Views
Automatic Dark Mode color scheme switching Announcements new-feature , auto-dark	24	18781	December 7, 2021
Make a setting default to all users Support	3	577	April 18, 2023
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