Dark mode for the MDN site would be awesome

MDN
#1

Hi there. My first post here. I’ve searched the site but didn’t find another topic on this issue. I’m sure lots of people would appreciate if we could have a toggle in a corner, on the MDN site (https://developer.mozilla.org), to switch to a dark mode UI. This would be great when you want to study a subject on the MDN site, especially when it’s a bit later in the evening.

Some websites like Ars Technica offer this choice out of the box, I wonder if it’s possible to get a simple dark mode for a start. I know this might complicate some issues with images and graphics that were made for a light background, but at least we could have a better reading experience for mostly text-based articles.

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#2

Since this will require changes to Kuma core, you should open a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org, or politely ask @jwhitlock to do it for you.

#3

There is already a bug, that we’ve marked “WONTFIX”: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427452

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#4 
There are some user style sheet solutions floating around you can use: [https://userstyles.org/styles/139747/a-mdn-darkly](https://userstyles.org/styles/139747/a-mdn-darkly)

I believe Stly-us is the current favourite custom styles extension. (Stylish was pulled from the
marketplace for violation of data practices. I believe Stly-us is the current favourite custom styles extension.)


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#5

Yeah, that’s the problem. I would have made my own stylesheet, but I try to avoid installing any extensions, unless they are open-source or I wrote them myself.

I suppose this decision to have a dark mode should have been made right from the start, when the MDN site was re-themed. Now it might be too late and costly to re-process all the assets to adapt them to a dark background with light text.

Will take a look at Stly-us and see if it can be a solution in this case.

Thanks.

#6

Dolan, it’s also that that makes almost every part of front-end dev automatically more expensive, because you have to implement and test both themes

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#7

I would absolutely love a dark mode. studying at night fries my brain and eyes. I googled this topic to see if there was a dark mode and thats how i found this.

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