I can't use the new dark theme in mastodon 4.3 :(
They made the regular dark them darker with low contrast, which is only readable for me in a room with low lighting. The high contrast dark theme makes the text bright white and changes nothing else, which is painful to read. Too much eye strain.
Maybe it's time for me to look into using a client app on PC or something.
or like figure out how to make custom themes with a firefox plugin or something >_>
pointers on how to change CSS in Firefox
@aeva You can do it without a plugin by editing your userstyles I think, otherwise there's Stylus (not Stylish! That's malware), which has a nicer UI for it.
pointers on how to change CSS in Firefox
@joepie91 I'd want something that is moderately future proof, which would probably not be making me own css sheets. Would Stylus be that?
pointers on how to change CSS in Firefox
@aeva Sort of; it has a "themes other people created" gallery, and some people do keep their custom styles up-to-date against changes. However I think it keys by domain name, so I'm not sure that's actually useful for Mastodon...
I suppose you could search directly in the galleries it searches, and fork them for your own domain? But then you'd also have to pull in updates yourself.
pointers on how to change CSS in Firefox
@joepie91 I'm seeing now that a lot of these don't style everything. I'm guessing they're not versioned in any way, so when an update to the site comes they just break?
pointers on how to change CSS in Firefox
@aeva Pretty much. Stylus was originally developed in response to proprietary platforms that let you change absolutely nothing and use no third-party clients, and in that context "keyed by domain" and "the version is whatever currently runs" are reasonable assumptions... they just do not transfer to self-hosted software very well 🙃
