Automatic "Night Theme 2.1"

[BetteBalterZen]

Is it possible to make this forum automatically enable the Night Theme after a certain time, fx at 18:00 everyday and then go back to Day Theme each day at 08:00?

[Jumballi]

Sounds expensive and unnecessarily taxing for a forum website IMHO.
Big issue A is how the site would have to determine what time is it. You could have it geolocate you but that's info I don't feel safe giving anyone, including the fine people at LMG. Then you have the unnecessary work it has to do on either the server end, which would bog down the servers and could make the site feel sluggish,or on the client side, which could spell trouble depending on the device and browser.
I vote for just ditching light mode all together and not bothering. DARK MODE FOR THE DARK GODS

[BetteBalterZen]

18 minutes ago, Jumballi said:

Sounds expensive and unnecessarily taxing for a forum website IMHO.
Big issue A is how the site would have to determine what time is it. You could have it geolocate you but that's info I don't feel safe giving anyone, including the fine people at LMG. Then you have the unnecessary work it has to do on either the server end, which would bog down the servers and could make the site feel sluggish,or on the client side, which could spell trouble depending on the device and browser.
I vote for just ditching light mode all together and not bothering. DARK MODE FOR THE DARK GODS

Oh right, I understand.

 

I can't see how this simple feature would be taxing though... Also, like on many other forums and sites, you could type in your location time in the settings of your profile, and using that - via a simple script - the website could auto enable and disable the Night Theme at certain times.

 

But I take your answer as it isn't possible on this forum? 

[Jumballi]

3 minutes ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Oh right, I understand. I can't see how this simple feature would be taxing though... But I take your answer as it isn't possible on this forum? 

I don't speak for the forum, but I can speak as a Comp engineer. While it's true that this feature is actually pretty benign, it does add a "tick" in the process line. Now a small "tick" is just as it sounds, small, but the problem arises when you start to add it up. If this ran server side, the thousands of users who use the site per hour would make this essentially a large process. It could work on the user side, it's just that users are monsters that have to use a different device and browser as you, which could just outright not be compatible.

Now this idea isn't bad on the surface, and as more and more devices add a global dark mode, we can quite possibly see this being an viable option on the user end.
I set device to dark mode > browser checks device preference for dark mode > website checks browser
I personally thing that when this finally becomes a thing, a timed dark mode would literally be a seamless implementation.

[BetteBalterZen]

1 minute ago, Jumballi said:

I don't speak for the forum, but I can speak as a Comp engineer. While it's true that this feature is actually pretty benign, it does add a "tick" in the process line. Now a small "tick" is just as it sounds, small, but the problem arises when you start to add it up. If this ran server side, the thousands of users who use the site per hour would make this essentially a large process. It could work on the user side, it's just that users are monsters that have to use a different device and browser as you, which could just outright not be compatible.

Now this idea isn't bad on the surface, and as more and more devices add a global dark mode, we can quite possibly see this being an viable option on the user end.
I set device to dark mode > browser checks device preference for dark mode > website checks browser
I personally thing that when this finally becomes a thing, a timed dark mode would literally be a seamless implementation.

Right, that's a good point - with the small "tick" actually being more than just "small" on the serverside. I understand that. 

But yes, I'd still like this to be a feature, and yeah I know, it is absolutely not an important feature. I just usually switch between Day and Night themes everyday, because I prefer Day themes during the day, because a black screen with white text while my whole room is perfectly lit up by sunlight, actually is tough for my eyes. But it's the other way around when it's dark.

[BetteBalterZen]

42 minutes ago, Hakemon said:

I mean a little JS code that just reads the local computer time to do it means it wouldn't need to be run server side, and would actually be extremely lightweight.  I mean just to display a clock you only need 15 lines of JS code.  So if any of our computers are struggling to run the javascript itself to check time and then apply theme based on our set time on our computer, that's not going to cause much of an impact in performance.  You'd need a 486 to really feel that pain. 

Now, implementing it on the forum software, that's a different story, I don't know if Invision can have this added or not.

Right! I thought it wouldn't take much to make but yes - it's a different story about adding it. Again, it's not important at all, but it would be a nice feature IMO

[LogicalDrm]

I think this has been requested before. Theme is user-based setting, and apparently those aren't easy to add or configure. So anything so detailed would have to be made or enabled by forum software devs.

 

 

And they don't like us very much. /jk, but only a bit

[BetteBalterZen]

1 hour ago, LogicalDrm said:

I think this has been requested before. Theme is user-based setting, and apparently those aren't easy to add or configure. So anything so detailed would have to be made or enabled by forum software devs.

 

 

And they don't like us very much. /jk, but only a bit

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