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Please vote for this feature on the bug/suggestion page

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Feel free to use my custom dark theme

Note that enabling this theme in your settings :
- You will certainly encounter some display bugs on mobile devices. (I have never tested it on a mobile phone.)
- You may encounter some rendering issues, especially when playing games that use a black color (I've already fixed this for Hanabi and Pandemic).
- You may encounter some display bugs with some of the new features of the site (because the dark theme doesn't handle them very well yet).
- The bug/suggestion section of BGA will no longer be accessible. You can see the list, but cannot read/write a request. This is a BGA protection to prevent people from reporting some bugs which are due to a custom theme.
- You can always remove the theme.

At the beginning of the theme code I wrote how to use it.

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I have vision problems. I can barely see without dark mode...

I've put together a purple / pink hued dark mode css theme that has been working pretty well for me on computer and mobile: https://github.com/wdspider/bga-theme

There is also a browser extension that has a different dark mode if you mostly play on a computer: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30509

If you have Chrome or Firefox, this extension has an excellent dark mode implemented: https://boardgamearena.com/doc/ChromeExtension

wdspider wrote: ↑01 February 2025, 15:42 I've put together a purple / pink hued dark mode css theme that has been working pretty well for me on computer and mobile: https://github.com/wdspider/bga-theme

There is also a browser extension that has a different dark mode if you mostly play on a computer: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30509

Infi220 wrote: ↑05 March 2025, 07:22 If you have Chrome or Firefox, this extension has an excellent dark mode implemented: https://boardgamearena.com/doc/ChromeExtension

I mean most people that are in dire need of having a dark mode probably already know about those options, but the fact a dark mode is still not implemented or even being considered (i.e. the suggestion not even being "acknowledged") is astounding. It is one of the most upvoted suggestion here (being third as of right now), and the fact so many people are able to come up with extensions does mean it is not something impossible to implement.

ShassDow wrote: ↑09 March 2025, 12:49 I mean most people that are in dire need of having a dark mode probably already know about those options, but the fact a dark mode is still not implemented or even being considered (i.e. the suggestion not even being "acknowledged") is astounding. It is one of the most upvoted suggestion here (being third as of right now), and the fact so many people are able to come up with extensions does mean it is not something impossible to implement.

There are some very inexplicable things. No option to hide friend activity from the ingame log, which actively discourages players from having friends (in my case and other I've seen), and actively makes the game experience worse due to spamming the game activity log...has 783 votes, is the #4 top request, and has been requested for over 4 years (https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=29258).

It got to the point that various volunteer developers implemented this on their own games, and the popular BGA extension also implements it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not believe anyone associated with BGA has ever commented on it, whatsoever. Are there legal reasons? Is there a very difficult technical reason that the various volunteer solutions do not account for? Do those with power simply believe the issue is not important enough? It's basically impossible to say.

You can use this simple dark theme → https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=57494