anonrerising | Horse Time

Gives underline in less than 24 hours for accessibility reasons but cba with adding dark mode.

Yeah, I know its easy to code in CSS with..

a:link, visited {
text-decoration: underline;
}

a:hover, active {
text-decoration: underline;
}

i like the underline, i hope it stays

what part of the idea that "large portions of our very image heavy site need to be refactored in order for a dark mode to work at acceptable standards" is still confusing to you people?

why did the devs make a small and inconsequentially easy coding change instead of fully reformatting every visual element of their website? are they stupid?

(/j)

Op here, Since this isn't reddit I forgot the /s

Put your pitch forks away lol

genuine question: if it is as hard as you say, how come there's an addon for it that does it? what's stopping FR from using something similar to this??

Because the site with dark mode currently is ugly af.

I use one. It changes the contrast of all of the text significantly and just doesn't work on all the images with white backgrounds, especially those that were designed to interact with white. The new NPC art they've been rolling out is fine, but the older images down to the icons for individual page features are all going to need to be changed.

That's probably part of why they're finishing the refactor before they touch dark mode, because they'll have an accurate list of assets that need redone. Some they probably don't have the actual art files for anymore so we may even see more redraws happen.

Genuine question, not meant to be snarky, but have you checked to see if it's outdated? i was using the original one and it was abandoned- the current one is maintained and works well, and can be customized.

https://userstyles.world/style/9725/simple-dark-redux-for-flight-rising

AYRT

I am not using Stylus at all, actually. I have a different extension because I need dark mode for multiple websites and am willing to suffer FR being somewhat uglier if it means I only have one thing to update and customize instead of eight.

Looking at the screenshots there isn't too much difference except in the sidebar anyway. I do appreciate the updated link, though!

ayrt i don't know which add-ons are the preferred ones now but as an example, past add-ons that created make-shift "dark mode" often still ran into issues with site images because they were on a white square background instead of being transparent. so you'd still end up blinded by certain image-heavy pages.

converting site images and media to not do that was definitely part of the refactor and in fact it might be better now for dark mode add-ons because of that.

this is ignoring what was needed at the code level in order for things to play nicely with each other, including allowing for player's using non-rule breaking custom add-ons. fr is an old site by internet standards and untangling code can be and usually is a nightmare game of Yeti in my Spaghetti.

another answer is that one player's preferred dark mode may be headache inducing to another player who wants a dark-but-not-that-dark mode and i personally suspect fr wants to launch a few different site skin options at the same time as "dark mode" so as to cover all bases and to not just stick players with choosing between "match in a cave" dark mode and "second coming of jesus" light mode. especially because their playerbase throws a fit if they feel "left out" by an update. making multiple site skins in this instance would therefore take additional time.

That last part is so important.

Another site I play updated their site a few years ago and gave us site themes. There were a lot of them.

My personal favorite is a dark one with blue highlights and it is basically all blue with a bit of green.

To me, it is perfect and soothing.

But it gives others headaches because it does have some brighter blue and green.

There is another one that is pretty much universally dark, but everything is shades of brown. I know others who love that one, because it is soothing to them, but I don't like how washed out it makes things.

Others prefer brighter themes because the darker ones give THEM headaches.

So many sites that give dark mode do tend to go 'oh lets go all dark greys and depressing' or 'everything but text is black', I really appreciate the ones that give me options to choose from.

ayrt same hat basically

the dark mode most commercial websites/apps default to is awful for me because bright text on a dark background makes me see actual lines in my vision after awhile and gives me a headache on top of it.

it's incredibly annoying and i 100% avoid nearly any website with a layout like that (like most Fandom Wikis lol) and will just deal with light mode on other sites because at least i can mitigate the brightness by turning it down on my device or straight up wearing sunglasses.

my personal sweet spot tends to be backgrounds with medium-to-light cool colors (especially blues/greens) and off-dark text.

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