New update changed how my CSS targets new/unread topic background colors and I don't know how to fix it

I was previously using the CSS from GitHub - pyxfluff/Blackout to change the background to a deeper black (you can see examples Blackout - A Theme For OLED Displays ). It was working fine, but today after I updated all the read topics on the main page have defaulted to the grey color of the underlying theme (unread remains the same). I’ve been trying dozens of changes and none of them have made a difference.

This specifically

body, .boxed.white, .admin-detail, .admin-controls, .admin-controls .controls, .user-content,.group-details-container,
div.edit-category .edit-category-title-bar, .user-main .about, .user-main .about .details .primary,
.user-main .about .details, .user-stream .item, .user-stream .user-stream-item, .search-container .search-header,
.search-container .search-filters .search-advanced-filters, .search-container .search-bar,
.search-container .search-filters {
background-color:#000!important;
}

When removed resets the entire background back to the same matching color. So obviously something here isn’t targeting the “read” backgrounds anymore, but nothing I add makes a difference.

Want all the topics in both states to still look like the bottom, not the top . Is this still possible to do? I don’t know what or how to target that and AI just keeps giving me more non-working CSS too when I try to get that to figure it out.

Why not just change the colors in a color pallette?

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it was used as third color mode for a couple skins so you could have light/dark/this. It’s not super important I more just wanted to understand what exactly changed and how to do something about it so that when something breaks I can actually fix it instead of hoping it just doesn’t. Especially when it didn’t break from something I did and I had no control

Recently, new color variables were added.

I think this added, for example, the background color on visited topics:

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I haven’t updated the theme since 2023 or so, some breakage is to be expected. I wasn’t even sure anybody was actually using the theme but I’ll fix it when I get some time free, thanks for letting me know.