Dark mode is one of the reasons why Pianostreet remains one of my preferred music communities on the net. Dark mode is awesome. IMO dark mode results in less eye strain, and establishes a sense of mental focus.
This is a suggestion for the website. When a potential new user comes to the site, it looks very dark and dreary, one could even call it unsettling. If nothing else, it's quite boring. That's not a very good first impression, is it? The potential new user would likely immediately click out. I suggest that there be a light mode that is defaulted to when a guest comes to the site, with this dark mode still an option for long time users that prefer it.
Do you mean for the forum itself or the rest of the site?
Dark mode is one of the reasons why Pianostreet remains one of my preferred music communities on the net. Dark mode is awesome. IMO dark mode results in less eye strain, and establishes a sense of mental focus. A suggestion for the site, would it be possible to have the text reply box in dark mode as well?
I agree with you. My proposal keeps open the possibility of dark mode, just defaulting to light mode initially.
I think the default dark mode makes Pianostreet stand out. Many other music forums (at least the ones I would be interested in), tend to use a default light mode. From the perspective of a potential new user, that might be what piques their interest to join.
I prefer to not attach an emotional metric to colour in web page design, and rather choose colour based on objective and pragmatic reasoning. Colour evoking emotion in art, yes definitely it has a function there. However, as much of the activity on Pianostreet is reading text, I think the current colour scheme serves that purpose very well. IMO Pianostreet is much easier to read for extended periods of time than other music forums I have visited. It has been my observation that many people that work with screens in a professional or critical capacity understand and appreciate the value of dark mode. Various software packages take advantage of dark mode, software that spans fields such as: music production, video editing, photography, and coding.
It's definitely important to value visual appeal in web page design. All benefits are rendered utterly useless and irrelevant if a potential user is scared away by poor design choices that lead to bad first impressions. The nature of Pianostreet means that it's hard to put a lot of stuff on the site to distract people. Software packages are different. People irreversibly buy and download them for very specific reasons, while when it comes to sites, you can just click, click out, and no harm is done. Pianostreet has some potential; there are millions of pianists out there with internet access, but only a couple hundred have joined this site. That's a very big deficit of users that should be here. I think this is due to two things: lack of reason to return, and bad first impressions. I'm suggesting this as something to throw at the wall to see if it sticks.
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I don't mind what's default, but is there actually any other mode than this dark mode? I asked about this when I joined, because the dark mode gives me eye strain.Who actually makes decisions like this? Is there a mod on here? I even saw a thread suggesting there used to be alternative schemes, but now there seems to just be the one.
Pianostreet has some potential; there are millions of pianists out there with internet access, but only a couple hundred have joined this site. That's a very big deficit of users that should be here. I think this is due to two things: lack of reason to return, and bad first impressions.
Maybe we should do a poll and see if people prefer light or dark mode?
Hell yeah, I want more people on here too! What do you think could give people more reasons to return? What could they add that's currently missing?
Personally, I get the impression that as long as the revenue keeps rolling in from the score downloads, advertising or whatever else, nobody cares that much if PS forum looks like it's from the 1990s.
It doesn't have be black vs white, two ends of the color spectrum, the worst for the eyes.
I'm sorry, but what is the problem with providing OPTIONS? If you want the default to be as it is now, fine. There are clearly people who find it difficult to read as it is, so is it really necessary to keep on reiterating that you like it like that and they can basically go somewhere else? I suspect the answer might be that whoever would have to implement the choice doesn't know how to do it, or just can't be bothered, which makes me even less inclined to hang around here. Hell, there are options to have the freaking date in your favourite format!
Option 3: it's a lot of work to implement and takes time. Time is not always available when you have many things to work on and need to prioritize. Would be my guess as someone who works with web dev stuff.
Not really. You don't have to develop these from scratch. It's a SMF (Simple Machines Forum) - you just download and install any you want to provide to your users.
You seem to know how everything should be run around here.
Why don't you ask Nils if you can be an admin instead of necroposint on dead threads that are currently irrelevant?
No, I don't.
The reason it's a dead post is perhaps partly because I don't come here very often, and when I do I check if there are any replies in threads I'm watching, and there was one here suggesting that my request would require somebody to do a lot of work on the design
It might be worth considering that some things you think are "irrelevant" aren't necessarily to other people. Cheers.
Well, you were acting like you thought you did.Still, it had been more than 2 months since the last post on here.Also, you seem to be claiming that you're solely responsible for everything in this thread; that's what I'm getting, at least.I said that the issue is "irrelevant" because there is already a light mode option. I first noticed it back in March.As such, I will likely no longer respond to messages on this thread.Cheers.
There is a light mode on Piano Street main pages, but setting that and coming back to the forum, it doesn't apply, at least on my system...
Topic: Default to a light mode 