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Ghaaaa, bring back the forum dark theme. Please!

LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,185
edited August 2015 in The Commons

Modern flat displays in large sizes are very bright.  That's a feature.  But white backgrounds with sparse content are blinding. surprise  I realize that white may work better for smart phones and tablets but large mostly white screens require sunglasses.  Literally!  sad

Please bring back the "dark" theme and please make it a configurable option so I don't have to reset it every time I bring up this forum.  Please, (on knees, begging) please? enlightened

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    Actually the dark theme looked/worked just fine on my iPhone and iPad... White themes are actually harder for me to read on a small screen, the thin black letters tend to look blurry.

    But agreed... Please give us a dark theme again.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,440
    edited August 2015

    People keep starting new threads because it is so blinding they cannot read other threads on the topic

    it is like a snowstorm

    the white room of sensory depriviation

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  • CluricaunCluricaun Posts: 18

    I second this.  Bring back the dark theme.  And while I'm at it.  What is with the logon popup?  Why is the 'Register' button above the 'Logon' button?

  • awaythrow78awaythrow78 Posts: 26

    I like it.  Could your monitor be too bright and the room too dark?  As a professional graphic artist I find that many folks do this.  Every studio I've worked in keeps the lights at normal office brightness.  This reduces eyestrain by keeping the contrast low between the screen display and the real world.

    Bob

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,185
    edited August 2015

    Of course, I understand now.  It's my fault. angry It couldn't possibly be that my eyes are more sensitive (less adaptive) to bright light than people a half or a third my age.  My room is well enough lit.  My sensitivity to this issue increases with how tired I am.  But of course it's my fault that my display is calibrated to the best of my ability to yield proper images yet still the vast whitness blinds me at all times of day.  And of course DAZ is under no obligation to provide less contrasty and glaring web pages.  I designed web sites myself for a while and even I in my pathetic naivete knew that white backgrounds were uncomfortable for many.  no

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  • cdemeritcdemerit Posts: 505
    edited August 2015

    Well, I took a couple days away in the hopes Daz would coe to there senses and make a couple changes... But I see they haven't yet.

    I've seen some work-arounds for this, but the problem is that this shifts the onus to fix the problem from the  Daz web designers to the users/customers. This is never good business.

     

    From what I've seen, it seems like Daz has lost sight of 2 very basic yet important marketing pricipals:

     

    1: If you have a store (virtual or realworld) you need to make it Welcoming and Comfortable to your customers. When people are complaining that it hurts to visit/use your store, they are not going to linger in the store. Personal experiance has taught me the longer a customer lingers, the greater the chance they are going to buy something. An uncomfortable customer is going to quickly leave, and like do so without spending money. The responce of "Deal with it" to customer complaints that it is too bright make people feel unwelcome. How would you feel if you went to the Grocery Store and were unable to see because the lights were way too bright, and the responce from the store was "Get some sunglasses"? I'm sure most people would leave, and not come back.

     

    2: There is a common phraze in retail "The customer is always right". I hate that phrase, as it is usually intereperated as "give me everything I want" also I don't believe it it. The customer can be wrong, sometimes very, very wrong. However, as a merchant, It was my duty to do everything reasonable in my power to "Make the Customer Happy" They are similar concepts, and Daz seems uninterested (publically anyways) in trying to make the customers who are complaining happy. Most people who are complaining are only looking for a darker option, not to remove the white from thos who like it.

     

    The request for a darker settings seems quite reasonale, and from what little web design I've done in the past, not really all that difficult to implement. Not doing so is driving people away, and at least in my case, making me think real hard about spending anymore money on Daz Products. If it was only myself that was having issues, it would be one thing, but many are complaining.

     

    Well, I'll check back in a few more days, and see if anything has changed.

     

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