Dark/light mode should follow system settings

wojtek

More modern operating systems offer now ability to set light/dark mode system wide, and change it automatically based on time of day (so during the night the OS turns dark automatically). All modern browsers support prefers-color-scheme that follows system settings.

Could gg.deals implement following system settings? :-)

(there was a pool about dark mode in general [GG.deals dark theme (Poll inside!) (comment)] but it's already closed)

rob006

prefers-color-scheme is already used as default setting, but if you switch theme manually, it will always use manual setting and will ignore prefers-color-scheme from then on. Currently we don't have an option to switch back to prefers-color-scheme, but you should be able to do this by clearing local storage for gg.deals domain in your browser settings.

wojtek

Would be awesome to have it available in the ui (auto/light/dark).

Removing theme key from local storage "fixed" the issue though UI with "light" selected causes slight confusion :-)

Eiskis

Can you just add an "auto" setting for the theme selector? Or just remove the toggle altogether, and always follow the system setting? It's not hard to keep track of the system setting with CSS or JavaScript, so this should be a trivial thing to implement.

GG.deals is probably the only site where I have to constantly fiddle with the setting manually – it's pretty annoying.