Automatic Night Mode Component

[mbcahyono (Muhlis Cahyono)]

Following up the discussion here:

Automatic Night Mode Plugin

Some users have been asking about automatic switching between a light and a dark theme. Could this be accomplished with a plugin? I assume this would need two parts: a theme component with a javascript switching themes based on local time a Discourse plugin adding options to the user preferences page: turn night mode switching on/off, choose nighttime theme, set time nighttime time period How difficult would it be to code? As in, how much would it cost?

I made a theme component that will automatically switch to night theme based on user preferences. It’s currently work on a per-browser basis.

Repository

https://github.com/muhlisbc/discourse-automatic-night-mode-theme

Screenshot:

Installation

Add this component to each theme installed.

Known Issues

• I’ve received a report of the component making all navigation cause full reloads. Upon navigating between different pages every click caused a full refresh instead of an in-app navigation. I have not been able to reproduce this, so please post reproduction steps if you run into this.

Feedback is welcome and thanks to Discourse team for sponsoring this work

[terraboss (Markus)]

Nice theme component. But I can’t choose a time range for activation. It seems the field is for US time zones only?

Is it possible to add macOS Light/Dark mode detection?

[mbcahyono (Muhlis Cahyono)]

It seems the field is for US time zones only?

I’m sure it’s local (device) time.

Is it possible to add macOS Light/Dark mode detection

There is another theme for that:

Dark Mode Theme Switch (for Safari on macOS and iOS 13)

This is an experimental component. Use at your own risk! Repository: https://github.com/pmusaraj/discourse-dark-mode Installation instructions: How do I install a Theme or Theme Component? What this does? This component allows automatic switching to a dark theme when the browser is set to be in dark mode. At the time of writing this only works for authenticated users in Safari on macOS (Firefox is also expected to support this soon). Individual users can opt-out of this behaviour through a …

[terraboss (Markus)]

I’m sure it’s local (device) time.

I can’t enter my local time manually. Nothing happens.

There is another theme for that:

Thanks for this hint! I’ve had this in my bookmarks before

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work right now. I need to some troubleshooting first…

[jrgong]

Can this theme component be combined with this one?

Theme Switcher Component

Any thoughts about making the bottom smaller? When using additional component, it takes a lot of space in the header. For example I like the dark mode button in this ghost theme at top right:

That way users could override the automatic dark mode, when desired

[mbcahyono (Muhlis Cahyono)]

Yes, you can but it might lead to unexpected behavior.

[jrgong]

It seems, this component is broken. Whenever I enable it in my profile settings and reload the page, the checkmark in the box disappears and it’s disabled

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

I believe @pmusaraj is working on something even more automatic than this.

[pmusaraj (Penar Musaraj)]

Core has a similar feature now based on the device’s dark mode UI, please see Automatic Dark Mode color scheme switching.