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.
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Question Dark Mode?
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FreezerBurn
Moderator
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.
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.
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.
Colif
On a Journey
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
though like Brian's suggestion it can change how some elements of site look
FreezerBurn
Moderator
Well for true dark mode you'll have to shut your monitor off.
We have a quick guide to forum features, including dark mode, here in the forums.
Colif
On a Journey
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.
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.
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Tried it, doesn't work—all those pesky reflections.
Yep, that's a goodie 🙂
Zloth
Community Contributor
There's, uhhh, two of them: "use default style" and "Default Style". The latter seems to be the board software default style.
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!
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!
