Just a small forum design request + Poll

[Mizogin]

To be short: seeing white text on the pure black background makes my eyes hurt when I read posts on this forum. The contrast is too extreme. Or is it just me? I understand that it's a trend to have a completely dark background nowadays. But can it be tuned just a little, for a more grey color or something blue-ish like on FF forums. For example the background on our Discord channel is just perfect and friendly to eyes, I've sampled it, here's it's parameters:
EDIT: I've also noticed that on Discord the main text is not 100% white, it's very light grey, this is also important and very comfortable to read.

 

[Bl4ckhunter]

it looks fine to me but i wouldn't mind a switch to a dark grey/blue/purple, anything goes so long as it's not white or too light of a color, i find black on white extremely jarring.

 

[Shokolad]

I think it needs to have more gray text like this:


But to be honest, on my site i use dark grey background also
for example

 

[TankHunter678]

I am fine with the black background, though I can see a request to add in some alternative forum backgrounds (and an option to disable the background image switching) going through.

 

[NoahDVS]

Dark UIs are easy on my eyes. There is a theme you can pick with a light background and dark text, just go to your preferences. What I'd like though is to not have the website automatically run Flash whenever I visit it.

 

[Kouyioue]

considering 100% (""99.9%"" is a sissy little copout, go big or go home, Wuss ! ! ! ) of fanforums use this dumb generic black-theme phpBB template, it is kinda annoying.

But i'm fine with it here, since people actually post here frequently ^_^

 

[DarkCisum]

It's not really black is it though?
I like the grey, but I personally would probably adjust the text brightness a bit, i.e. make it slightly more grey.

The background image switching should be an option. Then again adblocker is doing its fine job so far, just feels a bit stupid having to use it.

 

[Kuroyukihimeeee]

I do like it dark, easier at night.

Onlything im not keep on is the switching background

 

[Grummz]

Xenforo features optional, user selectable themes. If you find a free one you like, I can install it for you and you can select it as your default.

 

[Btabc]

Xenforo features optional, user selectable themes. If you find a free one you like, I can install it for you and you can select it as your default.

^
This would be a nice feature! The revolving pictures distracts me, what if we had the option to choose between either black or one of the three rotating images?

 

[phoenix]

Xenforo features optional, user selectable themes. If you find a free one you like, I can install it for you and you can select it as your default.

We really could use a navel theme.....

 

[taiiat]

i always prefer the content being brighter than the background.

because your eyes are naturally drawn towards bright things, or things that stand out. the background being brighter than the content of the page is an amateur mistake that many people make.
there's a lot of things i facepalm about in regards to Web Design or UI Design. so many rookie mistakes that break fundamental rules that are there for very good reasons.

here's what this Forum looks like for me atm. i'm very fine with this. obviously i'm doing some stuff Client side.
http://i.imgur.com/5VocEzM.png


i am, however, biased towards these sorts of things even though they do follow rules based around human function, as can be seen by other things i customize the look of:
http://i.imgur.com/dzOergE.png

I understand that it's a trend to have a completely dark background nowadays.

the trend is actually having a 255,255,255 background and then having text of various neon colors.
with everything else also being eyesearing white. white on white on white on white is the current 'hip trend' in all types of User Interfaces. or rainbow colors.

 

[Silv3r Shadow]

Also, black background saved my phone battery XD

 

[Shokolad]

i thought it should be here. Pasted screenshot from Discord Ember chat:

 

[Shokolad]

Oh, here is Post up!)
https://forums.emberthegame.com/thr...k-with-new-ember-forums-dashboard™-addon.335/

 

[Nunaden]

im pretty fine with black/white...
im using my OS X in dark mode and still got white windows frames (kinda annoying, but better than colorfull O.O)
i generally prefer darker BGs...

 

[NanoTechnician]

Since my eyes are red I see everything with a rose color

 

[Stoned Wookiee]

Black background with a light colored text is what I prefer. It's easiest on my eyes.

 

[Nunaden]

Black background with a light colored text is what I prefer. It's easiest on my eyes.

Yeah, it nice to read...
but long texts are generally shitty to read on screens... For long texts i still prefer paper O.O and im a "computer native" (i was raised with PCs and even before i was 2 years old i played kid games on debian O.O)