What do you think of the "Orange" dark theme?

[chipshot713]

I like it!!! keep it!!!

 

[Michael Meissner]

WAAAAY down at the bottom of the screen, left hand corner.

Got it, I rarely scroll all of the way down.

 

[Amin]

Hi, on my phone I see some changes, but the text of posts didn't change noticeably to me. Maybe it's bigger, but it's still small for me on both an iPhone 6s and a Pixel XL (both using Chrome with the largest font option).

I bumped it up another bit. How does it look now?

 

[ex machina]

Preferred the Very Dark theme, easier on the eyes, but I think both are better than the light theme.

 

[WRay]

By the way, wouldn't the light theme work better with medium gray rather than the blue?

 

[Amin]

By the way, wouldn't the light theme work better with medium gray rather than the blue?

This site has always had a lot of blue on the light theme. I feel like it's part of our identity.

 

[barry]

I bumped it up another bit. How does it look now?

Definitely better now!
I'm not convinced it's as big as before though.
Thanks

 

[Amin]

I'm not convinced it's as big as before though.

But it's good now?

 

[pdk42]

Very Dark looks G R E A T - thanks Amin!

 

[barry]

But it's good now?

A little bigger would be better for me.

I notice that on Chrome on Android, increasing the browser text scaling setting works on many elements, but not on the post text. I normally have it at 115% on my Pixel XL. (Chrome on iOS doesn't have that setting as Safari does the rendering.)
That might explain why it seems smaller now, assuming that setting was effective on XF1. I wonder if the CSS has that element set to an absolute size or something like that.

 

[Amin]

I notice that on Chrome on Android, increasing the browser text scaling setting works on many elements, but not on the post text.

That's strange, because it works on the post text in Chrome on Windows.

 

[Cederic]

Just switched from dark to very dark and.. tangible relief. Apparently the dark/orange had been causing a small level of sensory overload that's greatly reduced with the new very dark theme.

Many thanks!

 

[davidzvi]

Still hoping for a medium like we had before (both here and on the Cafe). But for some reason the light seems a bit more harsh here than it does over there.

 

[twigboy]

Couldn't take the bright default/light and very dark looked b&w. Dark w/orange is nice -- doesn't hurt my eyes.

 

[PacNWMike]

Vdark is good. Text with duck duck go is very readable on Android fone

 

[Amin]

Comment unrelated to color. Not liking the "drop up" like buttons. Really hard to navigate with my fat fingers. Also no way that I can see to cancel/change mistakes.

Hopefully better now with the larger drop up buttons?

 

[PacNWMike]

Like the big buttons. But Very fine line between getting a "like" and getting the drop down/up and getting the browser pop up

 

[PacNWMike]

Would prefer a tap for like options and a hold for browser

edit: on the computer now and it works fine, mouse-over and select Just the phone and my big fingers don't get along.

 

[kb1142]

But it's good now?

If you are still in the decision-making mode, larger text would be nice. If not, I can live with it. Thanks for the work Amin. I was expecting more site downtime but the change went smoothly, in my opinion.

 

[Amin]

If you are still in the decision-making mode, larger text would be nice. If not, I can live with it. Thanks for the work Amin. I was expecting more site downtime but the change went smoothly, in my opinion.

I'm getting about an equal number of people asking for smaller text and larger text, so for now I'm going to leave it as is but will keep an eye on additional feedback.