# Automatic Dark Mode color scheme switching

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-dark-mode-color-scheme-switching/161593
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** new-feature, auto-dark
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-dark-mode-color-scheme-switching/161593 "2020-08-20T22:17:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 36

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-dark-mode-color-scheme-switching/161593/36 "2020-12-21T18:24:33Z")

</div>

> [@manuel](#):
>
> But the dark color scheme has quite some glitches, when using these addons.

I suspect you mean that there are some dark mode glitches with the topic previews plugin? If I click on the site on your user profile, I do see some hover colors are wrong when in dark mode. Maybe the topic previews plugin needs a small update to better support dark mode (there is a [guide for plugins devs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-themes-and-plugins-to-support-automatic-dark-mode/161595)), if so, I think it’s worth raising the issue in that plugin’s topic.

> [@manuel](#):
>
> why not be able to set a default theme for automatic dark mode, instead of a default color scheme? The theme seems to allow for much better adjustments than the color scheme.

We cannot switch themes on-the-fly, themes can have custom javascript code, and it’s not possible to switch the javascript code without reloading the page.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-dark-mode-color-scheme-switching/161593)._