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Why do night theme readers not just use a browser extension?

At least once a week i will see a post complaining about how somebody did not use the automatic text color. Instead of requiring other users to change their posts, why don't you guys use a browser extension? I use the dark reader extention on chrome and love it. I can set the contrast, brightness, grey scale / sepia values, font, and what sites to exclude. Come, download it, stop complaining, and welcome the dark side.

 

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Because such extension often mess with the images too instead of the just background and text color.
They also remove background images entirely. (At least the ones I tried on firefox) And don't look as good as a proper "night theme"
If the "Paste as plain text by default" option was enabled by default on the forum, we wouldn't have this problem.

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1) the forum dark theme looks far better than a colour inverter

 

2) i use a colour inverter only on sites that do not have a black theme, such as google and other wbesites

 

3) you shoudl really use the magicactions extension, it makes youtube look way better than the colour inverter you're using

theres a small switch at the top which converts youtube to a proper dark theme

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Because such extension often mess with the images too instead of the just background and text color.

They also remove background images entirely. (At least the ones I tried on firefox)

If the "Paste as plain text by default" option was enabled by default on the forum, we wouldn't have this problem.

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Maybe because I don't want YouTube to look like YouPorn...

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"Instead of someone making proper posts to fit what the forum demands, why don't their change their entire browsing experience?"

 

Did you really need to ask that???

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That's just one more extension I have to use. Ain't got time for that.

 

 

"Instead of someone making proper posts to fit what the forum demands, why don't their change their entire browsing experience?"

 

Did you really need to ask that???

 

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I have poor results on here with stylish and I use it for all my sites so its a pain to switch around. If I cant read something on here because of font color in night theme I just highlight the post or Ctl+A and read it like that. does not bother me at all.

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Why would you need to change the color?

 

The Automatic Color is default.

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Why would you need to change the color?

The Automatic Color is default.

Its when people paste from other sites. Pasted text appears black on transparent bg or black on white bg. Since dark theme is using light grey text on really dark grey bg, first example would be almost invisible.

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Its when people paste from other sites. Pasted text appears black on transparent bg or black on white bg. Since dark theme is using light grey text on really dark grey bg, first example would be almost invisible.

Ah I see. Copy/Paste as plain text.

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Just highlight writing that's in normal black font and stop bitching.

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cuz i cant install browser extensions on Firefox 37.0.1 at work.

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Ah I see. Copy/Paste as plain text.

Which would be the original issue. OP argues that everyone who uses night theme should use fixers/unofficial themes instead of whining to people who don't paste as plain text.

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Which would be the original issue. OP argues that everyone who uses night theme should use fixers/unofficial themes instead of whining to people who don't paste as plain text.

To be fair, I think that night theme users are massively in the minority, so constantly bitching at others for making a small mistake is a bit silly. Just deal with it or use day theme with flux or something.

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Which would be the original issue. OP argues that everyone who uses night theme should use fixers/unofficial themes instead of whining to people who don't paste as plain text.

Really?

 

That is the most lazy thing I have ever heard.

 

Why should the people who already choose to make their life difficult even more difficult.

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To be fair, I think that night theme users are massively in the minority, so constantly bitching at others for making a small mistake is a bit silly. Just deal with it or use day theme with flux or something.

I would use night theme. But it has some design errors which make it worse than day theme for my use. Maybe I use the next version.

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