My default color scheme is WCAG light. So, when I choose, for example, “grey amber,” it still looks like the light theme [1] . So, I visit https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/interface and change the color scheme to “Theme default” and remove the tick to change it on all devices. At least for me…

Thanks for circling back here, @Moin . That certainly feels like unexpected behaviour - could you please confirm if it is still an issue for you today? We released an update for this on Monday this week that makes a lot of improvements to this area of Discourse. Could you please have a look and let m…

Yes, today switching to “theme default” still doesn’t stay when I reload, while switching to for example dark works.

Sometimes switching to a different color scheme does not work

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mcwumbly (Dave McClure) August 17, 2025, 6:41pm 6

I think some of these issues may be addressed by this PR (not yet merged at time of writing):

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/34359

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Sometimes switching to a different color scheme does not work

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