Dark/Black background?

As far as options for the forum, sadly, no. What you see is what everyone's got.

Some browsers, have a "night light" option, alternatively, some monitors will have a game mode. You want to turn OFF game mode (which vastly increases the screen brightness), while "night light" you want to turn on (it reduces screen brightness only at night, by making all whites a more softer amber color).

Oh, man, I just got suckered by an alt.
 
The is a dropdown menu at the bottom of the screen with some different styles/skins some you can try.
 
There are browser addins that will give you what you want.

I use Dark Night Mode. It's available at https://darknightmode.com/

Also, if you are using Windows 10 there is a night mode in settings that will tone down the brightness during the night.
 
How about for mobile, and please don't suggest the app. It is way too light in features and I don't like the interface.

I use the web site and would love to reverse the colors as other story sites I use let me.
 
How about for mobile, and please don't suggest the app. It is way too light in features and I don't like the interface.

I use the web site and would love to reverse the colors as other story sites I use let me.

As with most mobiles, Android at least, you will be using Chrome. The addin I mentioned should work there too.

And I use the app, it's fast and lets you go light on dark and simple.
 
I honestly forgot about the forum options at the bottom of the page. However, none of those were black or dark background. There IS a new (?) option there for "mobile and wireless devices" or maybe I just never noticed it before, but none are still "black."

A word on "black backgrounds." As people age (like me), or when they use their 'puter all night long (also like me), the desire to not see a bright background becomes almost an obsession. Here's the ironic aspect, a black background with bright white text becomes just as hard on the eyes as it's polar opposite.

What you want is muted colors: softer white backgrounds and grayer texts, or it's polar opposite, however, you also want where the contrast is high. Seeing gray text on a gray background, background, for instance, would cause higher eye strain. One thing I used to do in college was to turn my monitor resolution way down low (when they used to have such controls). My professor came by and asked "how can you see that?!?" Quite easily, was my response.
Staring at what amounts to be a 40-60 watt bulb for several hours a day, 1-2 feet from your face gives me all manner of memories of my parents warning not to sit so close to the TV set (for good reason).

To that end, Zeb Carter's suggestion of "dark night mode" fits that description. However, reading their description, it says "it's not perfect."

Earlier attempts by others to make a dark background was to simply invert the colors on a website. The trouble with those add-ons was that they invariably "break" a website, or come across a website that already offers a dark background. How do you invert a red background, for instance? When an inverter add-on sees a red background, instead of simply allowing the website to be viewed originally, it breaks the website so you can't see anything at all.

Blue colors are something you want to stay away from, because that part of the spectrum tends to blur, while amber brings clarity. There's also some study where doctors suggest that you avoid the blue spectrum right before you go to sleep; blue tends to keep you awake and alert (probably because your mind has to work harder to see the edges of blue spectrum objects).

I still say I think the OP is an alt. Seven year account with only two posts? Screams alt to me.
 
the background color on my screen (TV screen) currently is a pale peach color.
 
I honestly forgot about the forum options at the bottom of the page. However, none of those were black or dark background. There IS a new (?) option there for "mobile and wireless devices" or maybe I just never noticed it before, but none are still "black."

A word on "black backgrounds." As people age (like me), or when they use their 'puter all night long (also like me), the desire to not see a bright background becomes almost an obsession. Here's the ironic aspect, a black background with bright white text becomes just as hard on the eyes as it's polar opposite.

What you want is muted colors: softer white backgrounds and grayer texts, or it's polar opposite, however, you also want where the contrast is high. Seeing gray text on a gray background, background, for instance, would cause higher eye strain. One thing I used to do in college was to turn my monitor resolution way down low (when they used to have such controls). My professor came by and asked "how can you see that?!?" Quite easily, was my response.
Staring at what amounts to be a 40-60 watt bulb for several hours a day, 1-2 feet from your face gives me all manner of memories of my parents warning not to sit so close to the TV set (for good reason).

To that end, Zeb Carter's suggestion of "dark night mode" fits that description. However, reading their description, it says "it's not perfect."

Earlier attempts by others to make a dark background was to simply invert the colors on a website. The trouble with those add-ons was that they invariably "break" a website, or come across a website that already offers a dark background. How do you invert a red background, for instance? When an inverter add-on sees a red background, instead of simply allowing the website to be viewed originally, it breaks the website so you can't see anything at all.

Blue colors are something you want to stay away from, because that part of the spectrum tends to blur, while amber brings clarity. There's also some study where doctors suggest that you avoid the blue spectrum right before you go to sleep; blue tends to keep you awake and alert (probably because your mind has to work harder to see the edges of blue spectrum objects).

I still say I think the OP is an alt. Seven year account with only two posts? Screams alt to me.

And if you check your monitor settings you might find that you can turn the "Blue Light" they are really talking about in those studies. Unfortunately, your phone does not allow you to turn it off.
 
And if you check your monitor settings you might find that you can turn the "Blue Light" they are really talking about in those studies. Unfortunately, your phone does not allow you to turn it off.

Actually, I was looking into "sleep habits" and what to avoid to get better sleep habits, and the advice was to avoid watching TV and avoid using your computer, because because both are blue shifted. Computer monitors are generally more easily adjusted away from blue shift (but not all).

I know how to turn the blue shift off, on my monitor. Thanks anyways.
 
Hah hit the nail on the head! I almost never come to the forums. I forgot I asked this question. Also thanks everyone for the suggestion on a night mode addon. That's what I went with.
 
Actually, I was looking into "sleep habits" and what to avoid to get better sleep habits, and the advice was to avoid watching TV and avoid using your computer, because because both are blue shifted. Computer monitors are generally more easily adjusted away from blue shift (but not all).

I know how to turn the blue shift off, on my monitor. Thanks anyways.

Actually, I found it on my phone and tablet. So now all my devices have the blue shift turned off. I have a dual monitor setup on my desktop, one over the other. I have left the top monitor on top in it normal setting just to see what the difference is. It's really quite different.

Grays are grayer, white are shifted closer to beige and blue is a little on the pale side.
 
ever since the first "night mode" or "dark mode" came out, I swear I want everything in it. Probably too much for Lit (I would imagine the Admins have much better things to do with their time)...but if it ever happened, i'd be all over it!
 
Page appearance in most worthwhile browsers can be modified per website.
 
ever since the first "night mode" or "dark mode" came out, I swear I want everything in it. Probably too much for Lit (I would imagine the Admins have much better things to do with their time)...but if it ever happened, i'd be all over it!

Hmm... My current extension in my browser does make Lit in night mode.

Its called Dark Night Mode. Search for it on Chrome extensions.
 
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