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Introducing Dark Mode!


Brock Beauchamp

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This has been one of the most-requested features for a long time and I'm happy to announce that Dark Mode is finally a thing you can use across the site! Dark Mode is a new way to use Brewer Fanatic, especially at night or in darkened rooms. Instead of the background being black text over white background, it's the inverse: white text over black background. Some people find sites easier to use and read in this inverted scheme and now it's really easy to toggle back and forth as needed.

At the top right of each page, you will see four icons in the blue bar; the first icon is a half-filled circle. Click that to toggle back and forth from light to dark modes on the site. That's it!

Now, the site has become quite sprawling and while I tried to check every aspect of how this renders on each page, I surely missed some things. Therefore, dear user, you are my quality assurance team. If you see anything that's hard to read, doesn't work right, or just plain looks weird, add a comment below and I'll get it fixed as soon as possible.

For those of you who have been asking for this feature for so long, sorry it has taken this long. What seemed like a pretty simple feature actually turned into an overly-complex problem that I couldn't solve without quite a bit of effort.

Once again, I'd like to give a big thanks and shout out to our caretakers of Brewer Fanatic; without their continued support, small-but-important features like Dark Mode would be much more difficult to implement. The added freedom to hire additional staff allows me to spend more time focusing on these types of projects. Thanks again!

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Thanks, Brock - This is more helpful to me than you may realize

I have an eye issue that makes it extremely challenging for me to read unless an article is in dark mode

I read everything on my iPad & MacBook with a black background & white font

I appreciate your response to this request

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13 hours ago, edfunderburk said:

Thanks, Brock - This is more helpful to me than you may realize

I have an eye issue that makes it extremely challenging for me to read unless an article is in dark mode

I pread everything on my iPad & MacBook with a black background & white font

I appreciate your response to this request

You're not the first person I've heard say that this is actually a huge physical issue with their eyes. I wish I had known that earlier and I would have prioritized this before a few days ago.

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On 5/22/2022 at 10:50 AM, young guns said:

I've been getting a few posts like these on and off, not sure if it's just me.

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I think I have this fixed now, please let me know if that isn't the case.

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I have noticed in dark mode when viewing on an iPhone using Safari I am getting a flash of white when changing forums or topics.  Sometimes it won't happen at all on going from one forum to the next but it always happens when going from one thread to the next.  There will be a strong flash like my screen is taking a picture it is that bright sometimes other times it is a light grey but most of the time it is a bright white flash before the topic loads.  It happens on Android also using Chrome but the flash is not as bright.  

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9 hours ago, nate82 said:

I have noticed in dark mode when viewing on an iPhone using Safari I am getting a flash of white when changing forums or topics.  Sometimes it won't happen at all on going from one forum to the next but it always happens when going from one thread to the next.  There will be a strong flash like my screen is taking a picture it is that bright sometimes other times it is a light grey but most of the time it is a bright white flash before the topic loads.  It happens on Android also using Chrome but the flash is not as bright.  

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll flip over to dark mode on my phone and see if I can replicate the issue.

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13 hours ago, nate82 said:

I have noticed in dark mode when viewing on an iPhone using Safari I am getting a flash of white when changing forums or topics.  Sometimes it won't happen at all on going from one forum to the next but it always happens when going from one thread to the next.  There will be a strong flash like my screen is taking a picture it is that bright sometimes other times it is a light grey but most of the time it is a bright white flash before the topic loads.  It happens on Android also using Chrome but the flash is not as bright.  

Are you seeing this while on a stable wi-fi connection or are you using 4g/5g when it happens? I have a suspicion what might be causing this but can’t replicate it yet. 

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1 minute ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Are you seeing this while on a stable wi-fi connection or are you using 4g/5g when it happens? I have a suspicion what might be causing this but can’t replicate it yet. 

Both on wi-fi and 4g/5g.  I just tried using wi-fi and 4g/5g it comes up using both.  It seems like it is a transition between loading forums.  It is not as noticeable on an Android as it is on an iPhone.  

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Just now, nate82 said:

Both on wi-fi and 4g/5g.  I just tried using wi-fi and 4g/5g it comes up using both.  It seems like it is a transition between loading forums.  It is not as noticeable on an Android as it is on an iPhone.  

Okay, thanks. I'll keep plugging away using dark mode for awhile and see if I can get it to happen (my primary mobile device is an iPhone).

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Just now, Brock Beauchamp said:

Okay, thanks. I'll keep plugging away using dark mode for awhile and see if I can get it to happen (my primary mobile device is an iPhone).

I just tried on desktop using dark mode it also happens there.  It seems as though it loads the light version when switching categories in the forums.  Using the latest Chrome version on desktop.  

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Anyone have an issue with dark mode sometimes having random texts be in an all white block fill, which matches the text color? So it's impossible to read unless you highlight the text. This is on desktop. Seems to happen when people copy and paste certain things but I am not exactly certain. 

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8 minutes ago, TheeAirbender said:

Anyone have an issue with dark mode sometimes having random texts be in an all white block fill, which matches the text color? So it's impossible to read unless you highlight the text. This is on desktop. Seems to happen when people copy and paste certain things but I am not exactly certain. 

If this happens to anyone, screenshot it and send it to me with the page you found it. I’ll take a look and see what’s happening. 

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13 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

If this happens to anyone, screenshot it and send it to me with the page you found it. I’ll take a look and see what’s happening. 

Here is a small example of it. Often times can happen over larger periods of text, but I couldn't find one when looking for it. 

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35 minutes ago, TheeAirbender said:

Here is a small example of it. Often times can happen over larger periods of text, but I couldn't find one when looking for it. 

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That will get the job done for what I need, thanks.

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