# Coming soon to Meta 🌑 DARKNESS 🌑 **URL:** \ **Category:** UX\ **Created:** [2015年八月11日 18:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993 "2015-08-11T18:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![KevinWorkman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kevinworkman/32/122364_2.png) [@KevinWorkman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KevinWorkman)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月19日 23:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/107 "2015-08-19T23:47:47Z")
> [@nso95](#): > > I don’t get the appeal of dark color schemes. It makes sense for people who use a computer in a dark room. Staring at a bright white screen in a dark room gets very painful, very fast. On the other hand, a dark theme in a bright room can look equally ridiculous. I’d also love a user toggle for the theme. ---
**Author:** ![sdaugherty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sdaugherty/32/102997_2.png) [@sdaugherty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sdaugherty)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月19日 23:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/108 "2015-08-19T23:57:30Z")
@KevinWorkman there’s a discussion here about user selectable themes. > [@Letting users select different themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letting-users-select-different-themes/12624): > > Continuing the discussion from [What about an easier styling/theming system?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-an-easier-styling-theming-system/12346): Will your theming system support showing different themes for different users? I’m not talking about completely different themes with HTML and JS changes. But it occurred to me that it could be rather nice to let users pick between a Light vs a Dark theme on our forum, provided we’ve made our theme to support that feature of course, because that shouldn’t be a given for every Discourse theme. Example from Tweetdeck: … ---
**Author:** ![terraboss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/terraboss/32/579081_2.png) [@terraboss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terraboss)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月20日 08:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/110 "2015-08-20T08:32:07Z")
holy shitballs, this is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/embed/5blbv4WFriM?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月20日 10:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/111 "2015-08-20T10:17:33Z")
Oh god when will the pain ennnnnnd.. I decree darkness is over 5pm pacific time Friday 8/21. So we’ll fix what we can until then. ---
**Author:** ![holden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@holden](https://meta.discourse.org/u/holden)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月20日 12:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/112 "2015-08-20T12:27:16Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > Oh god when will the pain ennnnnnd.. I decree darkness is over 5pm pacific time Friday 8/21. Hahaha I think it looks great – very cool! I don’t think I’d use it though. Whiteness all the way. ---
**Author:** ![watchmanmonitor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/watchmanmonitor/32/430970_2.png) [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月21日 03:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/115 "2015-08-21T03:32:35Z")
Hm, yeah.. at this point I think I actually like the dark theme. Very interesting. Don’t know that I’d deploy it anywhere, but it gives me ideas on how I might style other discourse. ---
**Author:** ![adopilot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/adopilot/32/105040_2.png) [@adopilot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/adopilot)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月21日 13:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/121 "2015-08-21T13:07:06Z")
Please [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/9/a/99a1659a2aa98cc66e081aefb4fdfe05acdb66fe.jpeg "Santana - Put Your Lights On (Official Video) ft. Everlast") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCBS5EtszYI) ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Newsom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tom_newsom/32/115981_2.png) [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月21日 14:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/122 "2015-08-21T14:12:26Z")
[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/d/0/5d09ffe68892e1386213efcf91154732397e7041.jpeg "𝕬 𝖂𝖍𝖎𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖊 𝕺𝖋 𝕻𝖆𝖑𝖊 - 𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖈𝖔𝖑 𝕳𝖆𝖗𝖚𝖒") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA) ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月22日 00:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/124 "2015-08-22T00:15:51Z")
OK, we fixed a ton of dark bg CSS issues. Back to defaults for now. (any replies to this topic that were 100% addressed with our fixes were deleted, so we’d have a record of just remaining issues, not fixed things.) For posterity the darkness settings we used were ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/3/e37905ecc3d2cf33d44b876153c3a149f533426b.png) ---
**Author:** ![anon82356247](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@anon82356247](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon82356247)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月23日 20:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/125 "2015-08-23T20:39:07Z")
I rather like the Darkness theme too. Is there a way I can choose it as preference to use when I view Meta? Seems like it would be nice to provide alternate color schemes to users and allow them to pick one they prefer. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月23日 21:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/126 "2015-08-23T21:19:43Z")
You can install a browser plugin that lets you override browser colors with custom style sheets at will. ---
**Author:** ![watchmanmonitor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/watchmanmonitor/32/430970_2.png) [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月23日 22:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/127 "2015-08-23T22:28:42Z")
And one reason this wouldn’t work as well as hoped is if I as a site admin post CSS modifications for the theme that I’m using. If I knew that my users could pick any theme, that would be umpteen more levels of testing for my CSS modifications ---
**Author:** ![anon82356247](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@anon82356247](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon82356247)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月23日 23:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/128 "2015-08-23T23:08:46Z")
YouTube lets you “turn the lights off” and countless sites allow you to change your background, if not more. Thanks for your suggestion for custom meta theming. But my stronger interest is for user selectable theme for my (future) site. Presumably DC will ship with the Darkness theme available for the admin to select. Why not allow the admin to make darkness (or other approved schemes) available for their users to select as a preference? Is it because @codinghorror abhors it? :rageguy: I doubt even 1% of my users know how to override the colors, and only a few more would take the trouble to do so if they knew how. But a much larger percentage (25?) would select an optional theme if provided as a preference. I hope that my site will be my one of my users’ online homes. Being able to personalize it a bit makes it much more “homey” and encourages them to take up residence (and be on ongoing contributor). ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月23日 23:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/129 "2015-08-23T23:59:16Z")
In (nearly) 20 years of using the Internet I have never selected a user theme for a website I use. I just don’t see a lot of value in it versus other things we could spend time on that would benefit a lot more users not just the ultra rare few that will select a user theme… ---
**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月24日 00:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/130 "2015-08-24T00:49:10Z")
That said, I really want us to get “preview” working on “color scheme”, at the moment there is no way of experimenting with colors short of interrupting the entire site with the experiment. This should work same as customizations do. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Daniel\_M](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Daniel_M)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月24日 01:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/131 "2015-08-24T01:10:16Z")
I made a quick mockup of what a theme selector could look like. Collapsed: ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/2/d225f781196992b2dc83533f3c4a8ed0d4dfd9cd.png) Expanded (note that it only shows part of the menu, as I only had time to make one part; ignore the font glitches): ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/5/657e39a226407397ac293f1f0fa2dd0142ca0549.png) Another option would to have boxes next to the name with the colors (like in the category color selection dialog). ---
**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月24日 01:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/132 "2015-08-24T01:16:40Z")
I assume you are talking about an admin selector. We would like to ship with some sane defaults here: ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/d/4d711542fac98f0d91b3e15ef97443923b7a28ad.png) More than happy to see visual mockups on how to improve this UI. That said this topic has totally run its course and needs to be split off. Closing it in favor of topics with specific action points and feedback. ---
**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月24日 01:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/133 "2015-08-24T01:16:45Z")
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [2017年五月6日 03:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/134 "2017-05-06T03:09:35Z")
Logged in users, try out the dark theme ➡ here: [https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/interface](https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/interface) [上一頁](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993.md?page=3)