Hi, I am new to Discourse. I am running Discourse 3.2.0.beta4-dev. If I make a theme change, only Admin can see the theme change. In admin/customize/themes I have Clean enabled. In /u/admin/preferences/interface I have the following: Color Scheme Regular Theme Default (greyed out text) Dark mode Same as regular As the Admin user I see the Clean theme and it looks great (it has a white background). Other users, not logged in using Brave, Safari, Firefox see the Default Dark Theme (with a dark background). So my question is, what do I need to do so everybody will see the Clean theme with the white background?

Is your clean theme selectable by users? [Screen Shot 2022-06-15 at 10.07.10 AM]

[theme] This is what my admin/customize/themes looks like. You will note the default theme is missing as I deleted it from the admin area. I had the same problem with the default theme in that if I changed it to white, only admin would see the change.

Laptop 1: Brave: Admin logged in (white background) Firefox: unregistered (black background) Safari: unregistered (black background) Laptop 2: Brave: unregistered (white background) Firefox: unregistered (white background) Safari: unregistered (white background) Ipad: Safari: unregistered (white background) Brave: unregistered white header bar where logo login search hamburger rest of the page has a grey background Firefox: unregistered (white background) Even if I close all browsers on Laptop 1 and restart the machine, Firefox and Safari will load the site with a black background. So I presume there is a setting stored in the browser cache somewhere. But then I tested by clearing the Firefox history, clearing every history and data setting. When I loaded the site afterward it still loaded with a black background!

If you want people to be able to select it, you’ll need to check that middle check box in the settings on the right. Also, might I ask why you’re forcing all your users to have a very bright theme?

I have found out the reason why Laptop 1 was showing a black background using Firefox and Safari. On MacOS I had Settings/Appearance/Dark selected. This was also the reason why Brave on the iPad was not displaying the white background, as that was also using a Dark Mode.

Do you have force-https on for your site?

I dont believe so. Refreshing it - it actually seems to work sometimes but other times it doesn’t so don’t know whether its just a glitch

[image] Lize Maeve: I dont believe so Could you try enabling it then? That should resolve the issue.

Theme changes only apply to admin

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Lize_Gibson (Lize Maeve) January 24, 2024, 2:32pm 7

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