Holy hell this site has existed for how long and still no site-wide dark mode? Yeah yeah we can use it on our character sheets. COOL. What about EVERYTHING ELSE. It's a color swap, surely it isn't that labor intensive? Millions of people hate reading on a bright white backround, and third party add ons break most parts of the site. Do they... care at all?
It's a color swap, surely it isn't that labor intensive?
Actually, it is quite labour intensive. Some things you have to do for a "color swap"
Make sure all elements are correctly referenced in the CSS of the site
Create new CSS categories for things that can be on the same category in light mode, but can't be in dark mode
Check those new CSS categories don't break the site in light mode
Start testing various color palettes
Check those palettes are accessible
Remember that D&D Beyond has hundreds of pages, many with different formatting and custom aesthetic elements. Each image that isn't a fully cropped PNG and instead has a white background needs to be cleaned up to display properly against a darker background.
I don't agree with nor condone the aggressive, demanding and entitled tone that some of these comments have. Most don't understand the work needed for any "simple" feature request. What I do understand is the sentiment behing those comments, and I too share the frustration of having to read on a pretty eye-tortouring white background. Dark mode is an important accessibility feature that will hopefully be considered soon.
I recommend for reading the forums at least, it won't work for the other areas of dndbeyond is using an addon for chrome that allows dark mode called Night Eye. Its very nice for eye strain.
Cataracts. Firefox user searching for a solution which does not require becoming a CSS genius. All of the bright white boxes around the elements is very problematic. Can't read the top face of dice when I roll them, another problem.
4 years... I am guessing this will never happen. Unfortunate, its an accessibility thing for me. Because of my disability I cannot look at bright screens for more than a few minutes.
If you have an iPhone, you can go to Accessibilty settings -> Display and Text Size -> turn on Smart Invert. It works on Google Chrome, and the DND Beyond App.
My eyes are burning writing this. As a relative newcomer to dndbeyond this is the biggest complaint I have with the site, and I would assume my opinion is shared among the majority. Any browser extension used to get the job done just introduces different headaches we have to deal with. While I don't believe the update would be "easy," I do believe it should be of relative high priority if dndbeyond wants to be seen as the high quality go-to tool for playing D&D.
As someone who stuggles to read text on a bright screen it most definatly will be useful
Holy hell this site has existed for how long and still no site-wide dark mode? Yeah yeah we can use it on our character sheets. COOL. What about EVERYTHING ELSE. It's a color swap, surely it isn't that labor intensive? Millions of people hate reading on a bright white backround, and third party add ons break most parts of the site. Do they... care at all?
Actually, it is quite labour intensive. Some things you have to do for a "color swap"
Remember that D&D Beyond has hundreds of pages, many with different formatting and custom aesthetic elements. Each image that isn't a fully cropped PNG and instead has a white background needs to be cleaned up to display properly against a darker background.
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I don't agree with nor condone the aggressive, demanding and entitled tone that some of these comments have. Most don't understand the work needed for any "simple" feature request. What I do understand is the sentiment behing those comments, and I too share the frustration of having to read on a pretty eye-tortouring white background. Dark mode is an important accessibility feature that will hopefully be considered soon.
I recommend for reading the forums at least, it won't work for the other areas of dndbeyond is using an addon for chrome that allows dark mode called Night Eye. Its very nice for eye strain.
Casting my vote for Dark Mode...
Cataracts.
Firefox user searching for a solution which does not require becoming a CSS genius.
All of the bright white boxes around the elements is very problematic.
Can't read the top face of dice when I roll them, another problem.
4 years... I am guessing this will never happen. Unfortunate, its an accessibility thing for me. Because of my disability I cannot look at bright screens for more than a few minutes.
Go into a Character click manage, Character settings, Underdark mode. (This is only for that Character sheet I believe but man is it still nice.)
exactly what I needed, thank you
Would love this!
If you have an iPhone, you can go to Accessibilty settings -> Display and Text Size -> turn on Smart Invert. It works on Google Chrome, and the DND Beyond App.
My eyes are burning writing this. As a relative newcomer to dndbeyond this is the biggest complaint I have with the site, and I would assume my opinion is shared among the majority. Any browser extension used to get the job done just introduces different headaches we have to deal with. While I don't believe the update would be "easy," I do believe it should be of relative high priority if dndbeyond wants to be seen as the high quality go-to tool for playing D&D.
I just use this, it works for the most part. IT stopped working on "Race" Pages with the change to "Species" but other than that.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/general-discussion/129340-dark-night-mode-for-dndbeyond-website-and-stylus
"Not getting cut into bloody littles slices, That's the key to a sound plan."
Guess I never clicked into the species page after the changes - just updated it to fix that thanks for pointing it out.