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Discussion on: Day and Night mode based on time.

 
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Akhil Naidu

Thanks for your opinion.

This post is about feature request, so it is not about if it exists => it is about the possibilities to explore and make it more user friendly.

Once again, thanks for your perspective.

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Ildi

No problem, hope my perspective is useful. I remember when I first signed up for dev.to, it didn’t take long before I discovered the settings page and the options to change the theme there. I think active users of a Forem community will not have a hard time discovering this feature.

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Akhil Naidu

Right now, I do not mind that I have to go into my settings to change/customise this.

Even if it is auto, you need to follow the same steps, right!
Also, if onboarding has provided you with an option to choose the theme => The new community members will be aware of such customisations.

Am I missing something here :p

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Christina Gorton

From a user perspective, having your theme auto switching between light and dark by default could be jarring.

I personally can't use dark theme on many applications because of an astigmatism I have. It makes it very hard to read the text.
I think (and this is just an inference) what @ildi is trying to say is that the default theme is already in place. If someone wants to have their theme switch based on the time of day, it would be better if that was an option in settings and not the default. I tend to agree.

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Ildi

@coffeecraftcode you understood me correctly. Thanks for clarifying a bit more!

I can see how some users (probably a small group) might be delighted to unexpectedly discover the dark theme if it was to automatically switch. But I’m not sure if majority of users would feel the same.

Also adding the option to chose/customize theme during onboarding would educate the users that the feature is there but I’m not sure if we would want to add too many things during the onboarding process.

I do like the suggestion of easily/quickly being able toggle between light/dark modes without having to go into the full settings options.