Honestly have not noticed (in a dark room I turn brightness down), but there is truth to what you say. I have taken some courses on presenting, and web, and the do mention bright white, and ways to soften.

I guess I am cool with how the site is, incredible really!

Hey everyone, make a quick donation if you love pinside, any amount keeps this thing alive!

i'd do a dark version.
at night, the site gets really bright.
i usually have to turn my monitor brightness down every night.

too mas gringo

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I would love this as well. Much easier on the eyes, but if it never happens, I'm still very happy with Pinside!

Rob Bell
Robsgameroom.com

I usually prefer a dark theme to the bright white ones so this sounds like a great idea.

I am on board for one!

This bright white theme does kill my eyes when I force myself to stay up 'til 3am reading more posts.

->View->Invert Colors

I would use that option for sure. My kindle has black bg w/white text.

My problem is (and I know this makes me a loser) I roll out of bed, stumble to the computer, open Pinside...

...and get friggin' blinded because my eyes weren't ready for that much brightness that quickly.

So, yeah...it'd be great to have an option to change the background!

Guys, you *can* adjust the brightness of the screens of your mobile devices--that's a heck of a lot easier than for a website developer to revamp or add a theme.

Just drag down the bar that displays the clock, untick "auto", and slide the brightness setting down.

Also, for Android, there's an app called "screen filter" that dims the screen to a pre-set level when you launch the app.

For Windows/Mac/Linux/iPod/iPad, there's an application called f.lux. It gradually red-shifts your screen depending upon the time of day. I've found it to be very good for late-night work.

https://justgetflux.com/

too much work.
can barely roll off couch

*sigh*

No way I love the bright white background. I loaded the pages you linked and the contrast from the black to the white and yellow actually hurt my eyes way more then pinside does, or doesn't actually.

could use a background instead?

lots of happy colors and fluffy clouds...

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I look forward to the "Pinside after Dark" theme.

Some of those unicorns look like they can barley roll off the couch too.

Yeah, they hurt my eyes too. White text on dark backgrounds is too much contrast and glare and reduces readability, especially for older eyes--leading to eye strain. Teenagers typically have no problem with it, which is why websites created by younger folks tend to think the dark color scheme looks fine to them (and also looks cool, thus thinking it would be silly to change it). So, white text on black backgrounds don't work for everybody.

https://www.joedolson.com/2006/08/on-the-readability-of-inverted-color-schemes/

too many skittles

eat the rainbow !

I would give this 47 thumbs up if I could!

This was a great idea. I'm usually up late or early AM (like now, 4am). My brightness on my iPad is at its lowest, but Pinside is still too bright. A simple night mode (like on a GPS) would be perfect.

I like it as it is.

I would like the option for a darker background. Would definitely save my eyes late at night.

I always like the option for a darker forum skin. i'm extremely photosensitive and get migraines from bright lights.

Solid points. I'll think about it, and investigate if this is easily doable for me.

I briefly looked into this, this afternoon. I quickly found out: this is not going to be that easy. Copying the stylesheet and inverting all colors is no big deal. The issue is *maintaining* two sheets.

Then I figured, why not do it with Javascript? So I quickly try this:

for(i=0;e=document.all[i++]['backgroundColor','color'].map(function(p){(d=getComputedStyle(e)[p])!='rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)'&&(e.style[p]=d.replace(/\d+/g,function(n){return 255-n}))})

And lo and behold! It works!

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Now I just need to tweak this some more and give it the right feel. But essentially it is possible

Thanks Robin! The brighter screens late at night are killing my eyes.

you rock !!!!

This would be great!
Thanks

Very quick and dirty, but here's a Chrome plugin that can change the background color on a page's <body> tag for you. (As well as alter the opacity.)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backgroundskin/nkaoiaacfaehhjfgijingidlpjeldkmd?hl=en-US

A bit limited on the colors you can choose, but it's literally the first link I tried. I assume there are more robust options out there. Would be awesome if it could be set through a site user's profile page though.

If it's still around, Proxomitron can do just about anything to a webpage you'd ever want done. It's extremely complicated and can be unwieldy, but it's amazingly versatile. I used it back in the day.

"All future development of the program was ceased in 2003 just one year before its author's death on 1 May 2004; even so, Proxomitron is still viable and used on modern Windows platforms such as XP and Vista."

......oh...

The point is that a lot of people want this on their iPad or mobile phones. No plugins available there. It has to be javascript, I think.

I also don't want just a simple invert color (like my quick and dirty script above) but it has to ignore some fields (i.e. the orange dot matrix color on initials should remain orange). These details should not be lost. Call me a fusspot

Here is a better Google Chrome plug-in that works really well:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/care-your-eyes/fidmpnedniahpnkeomejhnepmbdamlhl

Love the sound of progress. Thanks Robin!

Hoping this happens. Wish I could use chrome at work, however its blocked.

I could have sworn that yesterday it had gone to a nice grey in the background? I thought it had changed. Weird

Even grey would be awesome for me. I actually wear sunglass while viewing pinside at work

I'd love to have a black-theme option! Many forum APIs offer it natively, I can't imagine it'd be difficult to enable here.
I'd also love to disable that damn auto-populate thing when scrolling through the forum- it doesn't play well with a scroll bar.

Yes please! The thought of a dark background was the final incentive I needed to make a donation to Pinside. Please find a way Robin. The over-excessive use of LEDS while playing in the dark has left my eyeballs scarred and sensitive to light thereby preventing me from reading pinside after dark. Ok, in reality my wife gets mad at the bright light in the room while she is trying to sleep.

Update: This is still in the plans, I'm just really busy at the moment. Please hang in there, sunglass wearers, I will soon devote some time to work on this feature request!

thanks robin, looking forward to it!

(someday request)
Can we have a personal setting, so that it changes dark or light background -- based on time of day?
...Then I wouldn't have to change the setting 2-4 times a day.

-mof

And have a setting so I can keep it as it is please Robin

...and...

actually have the background shade value change based on my time-zone, time of day & longitude, so it gets darker as the sun sets. be sure to take day-lights-savings-time into account

small brightness/darkness variations during the night to account for new moon or full moon would be very helpful as well..

also, if you could activate my laptop camera to measure general room ambient illumination and adjust for that too.

hehehe...

Great thank you! Until then, ill keep the sunglasses on