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.

cebeuno · Jan 13, 2020

It is appreciated ... Dark to me. Thank you.

Terry Rock · Jan 13, 2020

Will Mazeo said:
Thanks. it's much better

You guys 'crack me up'.
Where ever do you find this stuff?
I'm always guaranteed a laugh here at RD.

Ole Marius Myrvold · Jan 13, 2020

Terry Rock said:
Where ever do you find this stuff?

Trust me, you don't want to know.

Eric Rowland · Jan 13, 2020

lhutchy · Jan 14, 2020

Thank you soooo much. For someone who works night shift mostlly and reads this site at night, this is a great feature.

Andy Kettler · Jan 14, 2020

My eyes like that very much ^^

manc0ntr0 · Jan 14, 2020

Like it, thanks!

racingdud3 · Jan 15, 2020

Great RDark addition!
Thanks for the work.

In these times any app browser site or wahtever is on a screen should offer the DARK side option!

CC · Feb 16, 2020

I am really sorry here I dont want to be the one to be complaining or bashing anyone,
someone considering this to stay like a test ?
this is one way to make people to leave its awful,
please place it back to normal.

Vanaja · Feb 16, 2020

I like dark theme.
Thank you

Jim Layee · Feb 16, 2020

Is the dark theme borked ?

Kayumi · Feb 16, 2020

Bring back the dark theme

Edit: Found it aswell!

Jim Layee · Feb 16, 2020

I found dark theme hiding in my settings

The temporary un-researched layout is a bit too silly , work experience week ?

M3ME · Feb 16, 2020

It's still there, just scroll all the way to the bottom. On the left, you'll see "RD 2020 Light". Click on it, and change it to "RD 2020 Dark"

Granted, its more of a blue theme than light.

Jan Larsen · Feb 17, 2020

Edit: Found the solution myself litteraly seconds after posting. Sorry.

Bram Hengeveld · Mar 10, 2020

Fixed the latest bugs in Dark Mobile, all should be good now.

If you run into any other dark style issues please let me know.

Jebus · Mar 10, 2020

Did the dark theme color change? Looks a bit more grey. Loving it nonetheless.

GEO147 · Mar 10, 2020

Bram. On my phone the arrows for first/last page of thread are pretty hard to see.

AlleyViper · Apr 11, 2020

You might take a look at the selected text color (mostly for the reply box usage), the contrast is very low on a TN monitor.
You could try a much darker background/and or a change in text color to something that visually pops better, or invert text colors so the hightlight becomes more obvious.
Cheers