The user Amethi reports that their Discourse forum lacks a dark mode feature, unlike a new instance where the option is available. Ondrej suggests creating a custom dark theme, and JammyDodger advises adding a dark color palette via /admin/customize/colors. Amethi confirms this resolves the issue. JammyDodger adds that adding two dark palettes (e.g., dark and WCAG dark) enables the dark mode toggle, and a logout/login is required for changes to appear.
Hello. I’m not sure what’s going on, but my forum doesn’t have a dark mode, but if I install a new Discourse instance, I can see the colour palettes and user preferences for Dark mode. Any ideas what’s up>
My forum - Admin:
There’s no options in the Colour Palette dropdown.
My forum - User preferences:
A new Discourse instance - Admin:
Colour palette options:
A new Discourse instance - User preferences:
Forum:
Thats odd. For now just create a new theme called dark and apply the dark colour scheme to it along side any theme components.
Can you go to /admin/customize/colors and add a dark colour palette there?
Ah, that did the trick.
Thank you!
To get the extra ‘dark mode’ box I think you have to add two dark colour palettes (for my test I added dark and WCAG dark). I then also had to log-out and log back in again for the changes on my preference page to take effect.
And removing the second dark colour palette (and logging-out and back in again) removed the second ‘dark mode’ dropdown.
