Official dark mode request
closed
LogenGT
I understand that this is currently planned but accessibility issues have a long history of going off-radar here so I wanted to post an official request that can be pointed at if it goes missing again. Here goes: some people have eyes that do not work the same as other people's eyes. Mine, and many other people have difficulty with bright illumination directed straight at them. The oft-mooted solution of lowering screen brightness doesn't acknowledge the problem, damages legibility by reducing contrast below a sensible level, and ignores the widespread and simple fix of providing an option of inverting the background/text contrast of the content. Furthermore system level accessibility options such as screen inversion destroy colour information and meaning as well as making almost all pictures useless and not intended by the poster. For people like me, dark mode drastically reduces discomfort and increases legibility. For further reading/explanation please see http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/dark-mode-as-accessibility-feature
Astren
A dark theme has now been implemented. An official announcement about it is coming soon. You can enable it from the settings.
If you don't see the option or got issues enabling it try clearing your cache and cookies.
guydht
Well, it looks like they already have it, they just don't announce it (or have any way of changing it in the site itself).
If you go to your localStorage you can change the "storage:last-used" field to have dark mode.
Basically just press F12 and paste this:
(() => {
const obj = JSON.parse(localStorage["storage:last-used"]);
obj.theme = 'dark';
localStorage['storage:last-used'] = JSON.stringify(obj);
})();
Erik_The_Red
starpendle
So uh... this has been closed for a while yet the theme is still not available?
fukuchi△♪
starpendle: Closed =/= Completed
starpendle
fukuchi△♪: I know, but why close it at all?
Sibula
starpendle: closed means they've decided to not implement it
starpendle
Sibula: I'm gonna point to IAZoro's post then. My biggest problem with Kitsu lately is the growing lack of communication.
"So it's been in planning/development for over a year, then just gets canned just like that? And when it was stated that they were 99% done with it over 6 months ago? What kind of message do you think that sends to the community?"
Erik_The_Red
fukuchi△♪
There's third party theme that you can use:
Monika
https://kitsu.io/feedback/feature-requests/p/official-dark-mode-request They'll never launch dark mode here, as you can see on this 1 year old thread.
Erik_The_Red
Laxoss
jacki360 starpendle DragonRepairman IAZoro I assume it was closed because of this:
Monika
Laxoss: thanks. I hope we get dark mode soon.
Laxoss
Monika: I started using an extension called "Dark Reader" while waiting for it.
Monika
Laxoss: thanks, I'm now using it :D
IAZoro
So it's been in planning/development for over a year, then just gets canned just like that? And when it was stated that they were 99% done with it over 6 months ago? What kind of message do you think that sends to the community?
Load More
→