Night Mode Buttons

[kyle_boyce (Kyle)]

It would be really cool to see a feature on the top right beside the menus with a icon which when pressed will change the theme to dark and once it’s activated the will change to a which will allow you to active the default (light) theme!

I think this would be a very useful feature and should be in the base Discourse.

[Dax (Daniela)]

There’s a theme for that:

Alien Night Theme - A free Dark Theme for Discourse

Hey guys, After 2 years (scary), I finally got time to update this theme! Over the time I developed a new theme based on that, which I migrated now to Alien Night. I hope you like it! Preview it on the Theme Creator page I want to share a free dark theme for discourse called “Alien Night”. I made it for my server game community. Since I have people from all over the world playing on my servers and reading the forum at any time I wanted to have a dark and a bright theme people can choose…

[kyle_boyce (Kyle)]

How would I integrate this will the default themes?

[Dax (Daniela)]

How do I install a Theme or Theme Component?

Importing new themes and theme components head to Admin → Customize → Themes and press the Install button. [image] [image] From the Install dialog, you can … choose popular Discourse themes and theme components install from a Git repository URL link install from your local device (rare) If you are installing a complete theme, you’re done! If you install a theme component , you will need to add that theme component to your active themes. Keep reading. Add theme components to a …

[kyle_boyce (Kyle)]

I still do think this should be a core feature

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Your opinion has been noted