Question Dark Mode?

[TheAlexWalters]

Is there a dark mode for PC Gamer and it's forums and if not in 2022, why? It's a basic feature for people that don't want their eyes strained staring at bright white screens all day. It would take all of a few minutes to implement.

 

[FreezerBurn]

There is a dark mode. In the bottom right corner there is a PC Gamer button, click that and it gives you a dark mode option.

 

[Brian Boru]

An alternative which might suit you better—in that it will work for most sites—is to use your browser's dark mode, which is what I do:

It's not perfect, makes some bits look odd, and of course if text is hard coded as black/dark, you won't see it easily.

 

[COLGeek]

Take a look at your account preferences as well:

 

[Colif]

or use dark reader as sometimes black isn't really black - https://darkreader.org/help/en/
though like Brian's suggestion it can change how some elements of site look

 

[FreezerBurn]

Well for true dark mode you'll have to shut your monitor off.

 

[SHaines]

We have a quick guide to forum features, including dark mode, here in the forums.

 

[Zloth]

Errrr, we set the theme by clicking the faded PC Gamer thing? Could it say, maybe, "theme" instead?

 

[Colif]

It shows Style chooser if you hover mouse over it
It is a style choice across all future forums I use to have the name of current theme there. There might be a valid reason it is so. I don't have proof but good chance there aren't many servers running all the forums so they probably store themes centrally for all forums. Would make sense what shows there is current theme name.

Note: whatever you do, don't choose default theme. It can take a while to work out how to get out of it again... I am surprised its still a choice.

 

[Brian Boru]

for true dark mode you'll have to shut your monitor off

Tried it, doesn't work—all those pesky reflections.

guide to forum features

Yep, that's a goodie

 

[Colif]

close your eyes, it works for me. Don't hold fingers against lids or you might get strange light shows.

 

[Zloth]

Note: whatever you do, don't choose default theme. It can take a while to work out how to get out of it again... I am surprised its still a choice.

There's, uhhh, two of them: "use default style" and "Default Style". The latter seems to be the board software default style.

 

[Colif]

that is even worse. I can remember showing shaines once before, and he had fun getting out again. Its only cause the style changer is in another location on theme.

 

[SHaines]

We warn folks to avoid that Default style option in the instructions, so hopefully others avoid running into that issue.

Xenforo controls the names of their functions, so we can't really change any of that, but we can look into potential options for the future. It seems unlikely that there would be any changes in the near future as everything works as it should, the naming just isn't ideal.

If anyone ever wants additional guides on forum features they can let us know here in the Forum and Features subforum.

Thanks again!