Recently the text on emailed posts I receive has been greyed out.
This happens with meta.discourse.org and some other Discourse forums, but some other Discourse forums work fine.
The problem happens only when my Mac is set to dark mode; it does not happen with light mode.
Did something change recently in the Discourse software to cause this?
Hi Richard,
I have tried to repro this using Apple Mail and on 3 different browsers with gmail, but so far I havenāt been successful. So Iād like to get some more information to see if we can replicate this. Can you tell me:
Weāll keep digging into this but hopefully this will help us narrow it down.
Mark
Iām not Richard, but judging by the font in the image, he appears to be using Microsoft Outlook. 
Since upgrading to 2.9.0.beta4, one member of our forum has reported that they are experiencing a similar issue with emails sent from the forum. Their PC is set to Dark mode, they are using Microsoft Outlook on Windows 10.
They forwarded one of the emails to their IT manager and the light grey text was black on the IT managerās device.
The setting ādefault dark mode color scheme idā in the forum is set to None. There is only one active theme: Default, the color palette is Light (default), no Custom CSS/HTML.
Weāve been getting something similar too.
Any suggestions on how we car narrow down what is causing the problem?
We had a user report that the text in their email notification was super light colored, so much so that itās difficult to read:
The behavior seems to only be occurring in Outlook Web App. Has anyone else run into this one? Iām wondering if itās being caused by Discourse or the Outlook app and if thereās anything we can do to resolve.
Hello and welcome @Anna_at_Skuid 
Iāve slipped your post into this existing bug topic on the same issue to keep them grouped together. 
I can replicate the issue using Web Outlook App on Microsoft Edge (Version 106.0.1370.47 (Official build) (64-bit)), Firefox 106.0.1 (64-bit) and Chrome (Version 106.0.5249.119 (Official Build) (64-bit)) on Windows 10 Enterprise, version 20H2.
Windows 10 Settings > Personalisation > Colours >
Then either:
Choose your colour: Custom.
Choose your default app mode: Dark.
or:
Choose your colour: Dark.
Outlook Web App > Settings > Dark mode: Off.
Seems to be the color properties in this CSS style taken from a new version email (as an example) below?:
<div class="rps_735d"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4; text-align:left"><p>Hooray, a new version of <a href="https://www.discourse.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; color:#006699" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="0"><span data-markjs="true" class="mark95gsb08l7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 241, 0); color: black;" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Discourse</span></a> is available!</p><p>Your version: 2.9.0.beta9<br aria-hidden="true">New version: <strong>2.9.0.beta10</strong></p><ul style="margin:0 0 0 10px; padding:0 0 0 20px"><li style="padding-bottom:10px"><p>Upgrade using our easy <strong><a href="https://forum.step.org/admin/upgrade" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; color:#006699" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="1">one-click browser upgrade</a></strong></p></li><li style="padding-bottom:10px"><p>See whatās new in the <a href="https://meta.discourse.org/tag/release-notes" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; color:#006699" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="2">release notes</a> or view the <a href="https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/main" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; color:#006699" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="3">raw GitHub changelog</a></p></li><li style="padding-bottom:10px"><p>Visit <a href="https://meta.discourse.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; color:#006699" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="4">meta.<span data-markjs="true" class="mark95gsb08l7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 241, 0); color: black;" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">discourse</span>.org</a> for news, discussion, and support for <span data-markjs="true" class="mark95gsb08l7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 241, 0); color: black;" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Discourse</span></p></li></ul><h3 style="margin:30px 0 10px"><a href="#x_release-notes-1" name="x_release-notes-1" style="text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; color:#006699" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="5"></a>Release notes</h3><p>Read about the release here:</p><p><a href="https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-9-0-beta10-sidebar-new-notification-menu-security-fixes-and-more/239858" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; color:#006699" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="6">https://meta.<span data-markjs="true" class="mark95gsb08l7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 241, 0); color: black;" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">discourse</span>.org/t/2-9-0-beta10-sidebar-new-notification-menu-security-fixes-and-more/239858</a></p><p>This release includes security fixes, so please update as soon as possible.</p><div style="display:none; white-space:nowrap; font:15px courier; line-height:0"> </div><style>
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A workaround in the meantime would be to suggest to the user that they could turn dark mode on in Outlook Web App Settingsā¦?
Hi folks,
Apologies for the delay here, we have reproduced the issue in one specific scenario and merged a fix. If you are a hosted customer, the fix will be in your instance over the next week or so.
The specific scenario for the repro is using the default Outlook Web app running on an OS set to dark mode.
That combination caused some dark mode styles to apply to elements in the email template. That is because Outlook Web will respect @media (prefers-color-scheme:dark) (since OS is in dark mode) even though Outlook Web itself is not in dark mode. This is pretty much a bug with Outlook Web.
Nonetheless, weāve implemented a minimal fix. Hereās the relevant commit in core: