The light theme is dated and looks bad. It also causes issues for a lot of plugin pages including mine where I design the elements to look good in the dark theme. Most modern websites default to a dark theme as it's easier on the eyes and just looks better. We must embrace the dark future. (Still have the option for the light theme for weirdos who like it.)

I bring this up because on my support server whenever I'm watching someones screen and they come to this site, they don't even know the joy of the dark theme and flashbang everyone in the channel.

Edited June 19, 20232 yr by SuperPyroManiac

i couldn't agree more

I totally get you, I use the dark theme myself.

 

Most sites however do still default to black text on a white background, but an increasing amount will use your system theme from a browser hint to make the determination (e.g. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Twitch).
 

We do default to the light mode for both legacy and accessibility reasons, and for dark mode to work correctly, there's a few ugly hacks both in terms of making sure both themes do not diverge, to making user content show correctly with custom background/text colours.

 

I can't see us changing the default in the short term, as whilst it does look like a small undertaking, there's a few technical reasons that make this difficult, including but not limited to the hacks I mentioned above. We do also need to look into the accessibility aspect to make sure that we are not making the site harder to read for users by default.
However, I can definitely see us exploring this, along with broader website changes, as we get closer to the GTA6/VCPDFR? era or perhaps even sooner. We went dark first with RDR2Mods.com, for instance.

 

In the short-medium term however, I am working on changing the site behaviour to better reflect what users come to expect websites to do, abiding by their browser-hinted theme choices from their OS dark mode preference. There's a few blockers to that, the biggest one being that the light and dark themes are server-sided choices, and this impacts everything from maintainability to caching. We are working on solutions though, and it's next on my list after some continued development on our tagging system.

On 6/19/2023 at 7:35 AM, SuperPyroManiac said:

The light theme is dated and looks bad. It also causes issues for a lot of plugin pages including mine where I design the elements to look good in the dark theme. Most modern websites default to a dark theme as it's easier on the eyes and just looks better. We must embrace the dark future. (Still have the option for the light theme for weirdos who like it.)

I bring this up because on my support server whenever I'm watching someones screen and they come to this site, they don't even know the joy of the dark theme and flashbang everyone in the channel.

I like the lighter theme as the dark hurts my eyes and I am no weirdo.