Do most of you still use the black background?

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Poll Do most of you still use the black background? (81 votes)

Yes 88%
No 12%

I always used the black background pre-clusterfuck, but now, if I close the window and stay off GameSpot for X amount of time, I have to log in again and the default is white. I'm too lazy half the time to switch to black now. What's pissing me off is that I don't automatically stayed logged in. Unless someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, I'll just be sticking to white half the time.

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#2 Judas_
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The place looks so generic and bland on the white theme....................

Granted....Looks bland in black too...........

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#3  Edited By lamprey263
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I still use the dark backgboound with the lighter text, the look is fine except I wish the text box for typing comments was white like before

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#4  Edited By AmazonTreeBoa
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I use dark on my PC. Sadly there is no option now on my phone to pick, so I am stuck with white, which drains the battery way faster than the dark background that I can't use does.

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#5 lensflare15
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I use the dark theme, but it'll switch for me too. If I'm on a different computer, I don't always bother to switch it back to dark, since the current white theme looks a hell of a lot better then the old one and I don't mind it so much.

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#6 3eyedrazorback
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I switch around, but I'm digging the white currently. I normally change once or twice a time when I get on just to see the difference.

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#7 the_bi99man
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The white background is painful and terrible. So yeah, I use the dark background.

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#8  Edited By Bigboss232
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I don't even know where the backround change is at so I use horrible white.

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#9 WiiCubeM1
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The white hurts my eyes.

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#10  Edited By cfstar
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I just started using the site again since the change and I dunno how to change, but doing so would be great because the white is painful to look at.

EDIT: Nevermind.

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#11  Edited By Celldrax
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Of course.

I really don't like bright backgrounds in general.

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#12 TAMKFan
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Yes. It's all I've used on both the old site and the new site.

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#13  Edited By konvikt_17
Member since 2008 • 22378 Posts

Yea, most of OT(92%) use the dark theme.

I use the light theme, like i have for the past couple years.

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#14 darthcobain17
Member since 2007 • 2473 Posts

I totally use the black and always have. I've never liked the white background, it does nothing for me!! :)

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#15 hippiesanta
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I'm no racist .... but I use the black background ..... because it's easy for me to read white letter

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#16 Tqricardinho
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My default is black...

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#17 xdude85
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The white hurts my eyes, so yes I go with the black.

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#18 Michael0134567
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Yeah, hate the white.

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#19  Edited By deactivated-5ed92e29dd85a
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I like white because it does not hurt my eyes at all or as much. But over all I prefer the black.

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#20 iampenguin
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Love the black background.

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#21 helwa1988
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the white theme is too hard on the eyes.

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#22  Edited By VaguelyTagged
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the dark background makes the new interface more confusing than it really is to me. so yeah, i use white.

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#23  Edited By chrisrooR
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They should really make the black background the site default. The site looks like shit in white.

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#24 Crunchy_Nuts
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Yes, I don't like looking at white backgrounds, especially when the room is dark.

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#25 Pirate700
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Heck yeah.

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#26 chessmaster1989
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The white background looks awful, so hell yeah.

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#27 gregbmil
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I used to like 6 years ago, then I somehow turned it to white. And for the life of me I can not figure out how to get it back to black. it's been at least 6 years or so. Can someone tell me how to do it, lol?

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#28 foxhound_fox
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There is only the black background.

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#29 GamingTitan
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well im an idiot and took me forever to even notice the little slider thing to be able to change it. lol I must say though that it looks a 1000% better with the black background~

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#30  Edited By Revixe06
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Yep. The white background is terrifying.

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#31 sukraj
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yes

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#32 blurguy6
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I think the new forum looks better with the white background, black makes it look too gothic for some reason.

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#33  Edited By Fightingfan
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@helwa1988 said:

the white theme is too hard on the eyes.

I agree.

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#34  Edited By haziqonfire
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I've been using the white background for years. It's worse on my eyes to read white text on a black background than to read black text on a white background. Plus, most of the sites I visit regularly have use a white theme as the default - Facebook, The Verge, Google+, GMail, The Guardian, The Globe & Mail, etc.

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#35 Lone_Wolf_Lance
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Black background. Always.

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#36  Edited By DahLong
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white background is too bright. it hurts me eyes. IMO black is better

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#37 Makhaidos
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You know, I never really tried the white background. I think I'll see what that's abou--

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#38 tocool340
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@the_bi99man said:

The white background is painful and terrible. So yeah, I use the dark background.

Yeah, this...

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Yeah and I use flux too, makes browsing at night much easier on the eyes.

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#40  Edited By riou7  Moderator
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Been using black since forever, white is just too.. white

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#41  Edited By -Renegade
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i dont use the black backround now because there is too much orange on the forums with it on, the orange is to bright and it makes my eyes hurt.

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#42 Kats_RK
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I've been using the black background since I joined :p

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#43 Cynical_Buzzard
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I did not know I had an option of changing the background color, I am definitely going to change my background to black.

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#44 Dogswithguns
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I love the black...

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#46 PsychoLemons
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Absolutely but nothing beats the old Gamespot format one though.

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#47 HappinessForYou
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Black background looks great anyway.

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#48  Edited By SolidSnake35
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White is too bright and looks extremely plain.

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#49 sukraj
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Yes