Much Requested: A Dark Theme

Bram Hengeveld · Jan 9, 2020

Many of our premium members have requested a dark theme for the site in the past couple of years and unfortunately time never allowed us to create one. Until today...

If you are a fan of darker styled themes or just need a less contrasted page because you are browsing RD illegally at night in bed we have now released a first beta dark style for you to enjoy (or hate).

Go to RD Dark by clicking here
Go to RD Light by clicking here

You can of course always use the style chooser on the bottom left side of the page as well.

Hor-hay · Jan 10, 2020

awesome, now we need a dark bg with light text area, semi dark...

Bram Hengeveld · Jan 10, 2020

Hor-hay said:
awesome, now we need a dark bg with light text area, semi dark...

Like our sister cycling site? https://www.cyclingdepartment.com/forums/

Fat-Alfie · Jan 10, 2020

I didn't even know about your sister site! Awesome! Now I have two places to call home

Bram Hengeveld · Jan 10, 2020

Fat-Alfie said:
I didn't even know about your sister site! Awesome! Now I have two places to call home

Dude! We have three

www.oldskooldepartment.com as well

You a cyclist as well then? Let's connect!

Ian Navarro · Jan 10, 2020

I like the dark theme a lot. Looks really nice!

valber · Jan 10, 2020

Good, very good ... congratulations!

Chris Down · Jan 10, 2020

This is great, thank you!

Günthar Rowe · Jan 10, 2020

nice

b)b · Jan 11, 2020

My eyes are not bleeding anymore. Thanks !

von_erics · Jan 11, 2020

Ooooo, this's nice ^_^ Thanks guys!

Vintagedriver01 · Jan 11, 2020

Oeps as it seems, I’m the only one who went back to the light version. For me as an guy on age, the letters in the light mode are looking better for reading on my iPad.
But yep the website looks very chic in the dark-mode, despite this eye candy, I still prefer reading.

Bram Hengeveld · Jan 11, 2020

Vintagedriver01 said:
Oeps as it seems, I’m the only one who went back to the light version. For me as an guy on age, the letters in the light mode are looking better for reading on my iPad.
But yep the website looks very chic in the dark-mode, despite this eye candy, I still prefer reading.

Don't worry, same for me. Prefer light a lot more than dark. With one exception: reading at night.

Jim Layee · Jan 11, 2020

Thank you very much , it's a lot easier on old eyes than acres of white

randMracer · Jan 11, 2020

Awesome much better. I prefer any website on dark mode if it has that option. YouTube etc... all much easier on the eyes.. Maybe I'll renew my premium now.