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mint @mintexists11/22/2023, 7:47 PM

Ξ @exerian

cohost dot org @staff11/21/2023, 12:34 AM

official dark post box announcement post

hey there! I (@vogon) was gonna do a more playful post about this, but this bit from @amydentata and @aune is funnier than anything I could've posted anyway.

https://cohost.org/aune/post/3603446-span-style-color

you can now change the post box to be darker to make the site less glaring -- particularly on mobile devices, where the post box takes up almost all of your screen and people made a fair point that our "dark" theme isn't particularly dark in practice.

#cohost corner

cohost dot org @staff11/22/2023, 7:23 PM

additional updates: notification feed dark mode, also a full rewrite of the theme system

hi folks!

we just rolled out some changes that include a full rewrite of how we manage themes, which had the unfortunate side effect of breaking popular userstyles like the theme customizer.

userstyle and userscript developers will be happy to learn that we now have semantic classes instead of a horrible mismash of tailwind classes that are impossible to target.¹

we'll be expanding this theme infrastructure to other parts of the site as we go as we move closer to native customizable themes. we know it's inconvenient for now, but it's necessary for improvements down the road.

please let us know if you're seeing any issues! :eggbug:

if you don't know what this means, don't worry about it; it's not important for normal usage of the site.

Ξ @exerian11/22/2023, 7:40 PM

this is why it really pays off to have devs that play well with 3rd party additions. also, i'm really glad i haven't tried updating my purple theme yet. ^,..,^

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NeckSpike @neckspike11/21/2023, 12:37 AM

"always light" doesn't seem to work atm. In fact if I switch my browser to light mode I get a white bg with black post boxes.

colin @vogon11/21/2023, 12:44 AM

sorry, to clarify the "always light-on-dark" theme is light text on a dark background; what you want is "always dark-on-light". we understand the confusion and we'll see if we can come up with a clearer description!

NeckSpike @neckspike11/21/2023, 12:52 AM

oh my brain just interpeted them backwards, that works right now

Devin Spikowski @vegeta89711/21/2023, 1:30 AM

I made the same mistake.

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev11/21/2023, 12:52 AM

In most other websites and apps it's simply called "light" or "dark" based on the color of the background. By being more precise than that you've broken a convention people are used to!

NeckSpike @neckspike11/21/2023, 1:15 AM

Yeah that's what got me, read "light" and 99% of the time they mean the bg and I wasn't thinking it through.

🦊 knot 🦊@knot12611/22/2023, 8:08 PM

I think having both "dark" and "light" in the same line is what makes it confusing, maybe "always light themed" and "always dark themed" would be better?

real trans woman (not clickbait)@celestia-cat-alien11/21/2023, 12:37 AM

Thanks @staff!

why the lucky spliff @topghost11/21/2023, 12:38 AM

thank you so much! I'm really excited about this, especially with the addition of it respecting my OS settings; I change back and forth between light and dark mode on both desktop and mobile throughout the day.

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev11/21/2023, 12:40 AM

Ah, I was wondering about post box color following the system theme! Thanks for adding that in, that's the setting I wanted for myself

@aune11/21/2023, 12:40 AM

big fan of this implementation (similarly astigmatized) and how it's actually amoled friendly when it is in dark mode too, thanks!

hanky code enforcement @bootjack11/21/2023, 1:01 AM

thank you for this!

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen11/21/2023, 1:10 AM

i would looooooooove to be able to choose the background colour for the dark theme. black-on-white and white-on-black are both really hard on my eyes; i'd hugely prefer to be able to say "give me white-on-dark-grey" even at the risk of fucking up someone's CSS.

eg: this dark theme we're on now is equivalent to twitter's "lights out mode" not its "dim mode"

cecile @haraiva11/21/2023, 1:16 AM

agree, softer contrast would be nice for the actual post backgrounds.

Julianne Hardstone @Jewels-Hardstone11/21/2023, 1:31 AM

yeah, this update does nothing to help me read the site and just forced me to go into settings and turn it off.

sym 🍓@symliadoo11/21/2023, 4:54 AM

co-sign, id probably use dark mode, but PURE white-on-black is very eye-strain-y and not the best for your eyes!

@jseakle11/21/2023, 6:41 PM

agree! this black is very very black

Gazing Shimmers @GazingShimmers11/21/2023, 1:15 AM

this is honestly such a nice update!! i can finally turn off dark reader on this site and enjoy that sweet, sweet slight performance increase haha! even if i kinda have to get used to the slightly more saturated colors. but i can manage

my ONLY complaint is that, well, the settings page still has the white bg despite me setting it to "light-on-dark". A little annoying as I frequent that page to manage my silenced CWs and tags a lot, and the white bg being so bright is kinda punishing me for doing so. I hope that's just an oversight and not intentional, because most sites just follow your theme preference through and through.

Honestly now that I'm thinking about it, and I don't wanna go all "hire me cohost!" on you guys, but... It would be cool if changing your theme there would have an immediate effect, so people can easily find their preference. idk just thought of that while typing this lol

cecile @haraiva11/21/2023, 1:19 AM

would you be able change the site background colour on dark mode (the part you see between the posts) to something else than the same colour as the username and interactiob boxes? at the moment it's very hard to tell where posts begin and end, which makes navigation really confusing and annoying.

edit: this has now been updated and looks better now 🫡

samson @squidcrusher11/21/2023, 1:54 AM

Thank you for the update! Like others, I hope there are ways to tweak it just a little more in the future. I actually changed back to the "old" theme because the dark on dark was making me feel nauseous when I was scrolling for some odd reason.

Violet @OniLink11/21/2023, 2:08 AM

hey, just wanted to let you know that the notification page is stuck in "dark text on light bg" mode, even though I have it set to "always light text on dark bg"

signal eleven @widr11/21/2023, 3:05 AM

Will we get usable CSS variables for features, so we we can color-match the UI?

@zelkova11/21/2023, 3:11 AM

Very grateful for these updates, but if you might consider a low contrast mode in the future I'd really appreciate it! Or even like...an ability to choose custom colors for post backgrounds.

I realize I'm in a very slim minority of people who'd benefit from this accessibility option, but uh, thanks for your consideration (and thanks for your hard work!! :eggbug: )

scott @shny-scott11/21/2023, 4:25 AM

just want to say thank you so much. I still use a theme userstyle on desktop but this site looks beautiful on my phone now

Robert Hutchinson @ertchin11/21/2023, 6:16 AM

Thank you for the customization options. I'm a weird one in that I have dark mode on, BUT Cohost was sufficiently dark for me before the update.

Espiox @Espiox11/21/2023, 6:48 AM

Yay! This has been my top feature request since I joined. Thanks for making it proper OLED black too.

I do hope that eventually notifications and other pages follow suit, but otherwise this is implemented brilliantly.

Shred @Shred-VII11/21/2023, 6:49 AM

Should I be worried about the fact that I can't find the light/dark mode options on my user settings page?

Shred @Shred-VII11/21/2023, 9:46 PM

Whoops, never mind, it's there now. I probably managed to goof something up with the way I have my browser set to cache pages or... something... that caused an older version of the settings page to load.

I swear my computer was cursed by an eldritch being. This is far from the first time something like this has happened.

Space Reptile @Space-Reptile11/21/2023, 7:42 AM

so uh... how do i turn darkmode off? it doesnt look great to me, i liked the yellowish tones cohost had and i cannot see the setting for it anywhere

@aune11/21/2023, 7:50 AM

always dark-on-light in settings

Space Reptile @Space-Reptile11/21/2023, 8:21 AM

oh thank you

moon @doomishfox11/21/2023, 8:30 AM

thank you for all for actually acknowledging that astigmatism exists and adding the per post theme toggle. easily the best feature of any website this year

Deeber @deeber11/21/2023, 10:50 AM

yippee

Liam @ GamingOnLinux @Gamingonlinux11/21/2023, 12:36 PM

Still need the dark mode on the post tags listing please

CosmicRot @CosmicRot11/22/2023, 12:01 AM

the wording of "light on dark" vs "dark on light" had me extremely confused.. I assumed it meant "light post on dark bg" vs "dark post on light bg" instead of just changing only the post and not the entire site theme.

Evanatt @Evanatt11/22/2023, 3:17 AM

Is there’s a way to change it back how it was before (light version)? because I can’t find it in the settings??.

oddstrangepenes transgaystrange @oddmerit11/22/2023, 7:49 PM

https://cohost.org/rc/user/settings (NOT page settings) -> scroll down to "display settings" -> scroll down to "how content inside posts looks" -> find "what colors should posts be by default?" -> select "always dark-on-light"

GoatyGoats.com/links (she 🐯)@goaty11/22/2023, 5:45 PM

genuinely, thank y'all!!

@comment-writer11/22/2023, 7:22 PM

The current post format doesn't work with kiophen's theme customizer. Posts always look wrong with each theme.

Samantha Josephine @everythingisjustdirt11/23/2023, 5:49 PM

Looks good 👍

Metalchip @Metalchip8911/27/2023, 3:18 AM

I have a suggestion, could there be an option disabling 18 content from appearing on a users cohost feed? I say this since I could see many other users here that would like to have such an option (not like 18+ content clogs up everyones feed I just think it could be a nice quality of life option for some [plus i don't think X has a feature, helping cohost stand out more than it already does]).🙂

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Pile Of Garbage @garbo11/22/2023, 7:26 PM

sounds good but i'm hangin out for that dork mode

Osmose @Osmose11/22/2023, 7:30 PM

SEMANTIC CLASSES YES THANK YOU

li (implied)@thricedotted11/22/2023, 7:30 PM

semantic! classes! yee!!!

Tom (tired of the computer)@masklayer11/22/2023, 7:49 PM

Thank you for making the dark theme so good now, I really appreciate it!

StellaFangX @VoidFang11/22/2023, 7:55 PM

Will you add post scheduling in the future?
It would be handy for productivity.

a strange meadow @wowperfect11/22/2023, 7:57 PM

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

evie @ewie11/22/2023, 8:04 PM

WOOOO SEMANTIC CLASSES (i don’t make userstyles i just hate tailwind)

Coda @Codarobo11/22/2023, 8:17 PM

Oh my goodness thank you (for adding semantic classes) :3 :3 :3

@aune11/22/2023, 8:17 PM

I cannot thank you enough for that

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF11/22/2023, 8:44 PM

semantic classes LET'S FUCKING GO

moon @doomishfox11/22/2023, 9:13 PM

when you say "native customizable themes" would this include custom page themes?

Julianne Hardstone @Jewels-Hardstone11/23/2023, 4:26 AM

I'll admit I have no idea what "semantic classes" are since I'm a bit out of the loop on CSS updates, but I do know that before this latest update I only needed 6 short lines to tone down the contrast on this site and make it something that I could actually look at and now that's broken and I honestly want to just close this tab and never log in again at this rate. I tried to do a quick copy-paste with things, but I'm a little too cold-addled right now and so many things seem to have background colors defined? Even the REad More links????

This fucking sucks.

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