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[mention]rockedge[/mention] not working here. Drop list is still hard to read.

rockedge wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2020 2:27 pm @MochiMoppel excellent point so I made the changes

In the right file? Nothing has changed. Line 438 in colours.css still reads color: #0D0;

[mention]MochiMoppel[/mention] that is really odd! I made the changes and now they are not there. So I put them back in. Please clear the browser cache and test again.

[mention]smokey01[/mention] I uploaded the modified css again. Please clear the browser cache and test again

[mention]rockedge[/mention] Codebox works now. Thanks.

With the code block (and main post) foreground text now a bit brighter (so easier to see in the gloom...) I can now live with this a bit better, considerably better in fact (especially since some of the background has a touch of lighter grey to it). Mind you, when using it I still feel a bit like I'm working inside a cave! (I have been living in a tent too long maybe). Each caveman/cavewoman to their own I guess.

EDIT: Come to think of it, the problem I have with dark websites is similar to the issues I encounter when driving car at night - I can do it, but I find the dark, well, dark..., and the lights, somewhat blinding (but reading text requires 'contrast' so no way of avoiding the 'blinding' when background is dark - I suppose the dark background makes my pupils grow wide to let in more light and then the white bits are too white for my brain... oh well... I will just limit my exposure to it or wear special nighttime driving glasses).

My own feeling is that, with a brighter theme anyone and everyone can so simply use one of these bedtime filter-out blue, let red-in, night filter software packages, which is what you need overall anyway if you are trying to avoid eye blasting especially before sleep... But if a theme wasn't easily optionally changed (i.e. ended up being permanent) you can't easily unfilter a dark website back to a light one... I presume this will end up only as an easily user-changeable option, which I myself will then change...). White text isn't good for the eyes prior to sleep whether on dark background or lighter one (though less noticeable glare on lighter one) - filtering out too much white glare from white foreground text using bedtime filter software will I expect make dark background even darker. Who needs to see anyway - I can touch-type reasonably proficiently (but then need braille characters to read or text to speech, which I can do but what about diagrams...).

wiak

[mention]rockedge[/mention] white on grey is much better but orange on black would be clearer, my opinion only.

rockedge wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2020 11:50 pm @smokey01 I uploaded the modified css again. Please clear the browser cache and test again

Hello smokey01,

Problem is, this is an extension module, it is tricky finding in the mile of code where and why the font or dropdown menu color are configured. the simple mention extension seems to also be controlled by some of the currently used theme's CSS. We will continue to mess with it until the colors are better for reading across all themes.

[mention]rockedge[/mention] It's all good. I'm just looking at the forum for the first time on my PC, I usually use my phone. It looks really nice and easy to navigate. It's nice to have my daily newspaper back.
Thanks

rockedge wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:31 pm Hello smokey01,

Problem is, this is an extension module, it is tricky finding in the mile of code where and why the font or dropdown menu color are configured. the simple mention extension seems to also be controlled by some of the currently used theme's CSS. We will continue to mess with it until the colors are better for reading across all themes.

Gosh, this dark theme is hard to read with my old eyes. Gives me a headache.

Sky