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)]

@terraboss

It seems the field is for US time zones only?

I’m sure it’s local (device) time.

@terraboss

Is it possible to add macOS Light/Dark mode detection

There is another theme for that:

Dark Mode Automatic Theme Switcher

Discourse now supports Automatic Dark Mode color scheme switching in core, this component is now deprecated and should no longer be used. Repository: https://github.com/pmusaraj/discourse-dark-mode Installation instructions: Installing a theme or theme component What this does? This component allows automatic switching to a dark theme when the browser is set to dark mode. This works for logged-in users only on all browsers that support the prefers-color-scheme media query. By de…

[terraboss (Markus)]

@mbcahyono

I’m sure it’s local (device) time.

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

@mbcahyono

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.