I'm currently not seeing the day/night mode toggle in the website's header.

I noticed today that the toggle for day/night or light/dark mode has disappeared from the Gamespot website's header.

I really enjoyed the feature. The last time that I can say that I saw it there would be Thursday June 15, 2017 (5 days ago).

I do not see the feature in current versions of Firefox, Chrome, MS Edge, and IE 11

I will chalk this up to poor website design.

Same. Thankfully I still have it on night mode. The paragraph box, where you type, is white though. Tough on the eyes.

I did find on another of my computers that the Microsoft Edge browser is still displaying Gamespot in night mode. My thinking is that it is using an old browser cookie to get it to display that way.

It is still not showing the toggle switch, however.

I'm experiencing the same problem.

Using Win 10 and Chrome. Latest update I believe.

Yup, same problem. Might be linked to the new post editing box, which now has a white background instead of a dark one.

Please fix, please ! I hate this bright option, i'm a vampire.

You can still use the light/dark toggle from the settings page: https://www.gamespot.com/profile/settings/

Gotcha. Cheers.

Yes, i got a message from the mods. So happy we are able to go back to the dark theme. it makes all the difference in the world. Thanks

the text field for replying seems to be on light even if you are on the dark theme

Thanks for the tip angerawr.

Unfortunately, I'm not a fan of hiding that feature behind account authentication. Also, I logged in, went into my account settings, turned on dark mode, and then I hit the Save button. When I logged in today, I have to do it again.

So when I log into a different browser, I still have to go into my settings and toggle dark mode. Why do I "Save" the preference to my account, if it isn't a preference that is enabled wherever I log in?

A simple, front-facing, one-click feature, that many of the Gamespot community love, is now hidden behind login (two clicks, and entering credentials), go to settings and hit toggle and save (another 3 clicks), then click back to the homepage (1 more click).

At least when Eddie is going for clicks, it is for content, not to push someone to authenticate into the site.

Is there a way to make it so that when you save the option, it stays saved? When I sign into another computer I have to go into settings and save it again. I don't understand who thought it was a good idea to remove such a convenient feature.

I've chalked it up to poor website design. So poor, that the last time that I posted that I chalked it up to poor web design, the post wasn't posted. Even though I had set it to the "Best Answer".

@SOedipus: Currently the settings are saved within your cookies, but we are working on a way to have it save based on when you login.

I still don't agree with the feature being hidden behind a login. With no evidence of it if you aren't logged in.

To some, the ability to put a website into a dark/night mode is an Accessibility Feature, i.e. - folks that suffer from macular degeneration.

But with your defense of, what is in my opinion, the poor execution of your change, I wager we don't see "eye-to-eye" on the topic.

@angerawr

Hey there,

Just checking in to see how it is going with trying to get the account setting for dark mode to "Stick" when enabled and Saved when I'm logged in. At this time, I am still forced to go into my account settings every time that I visit the page to toggle on dark mode.

It would be much simpler, and less frustrating, if the setting for a dark/night mode were on the home page where I could have quick access to the setting when I first visit the website.

@Skrapshak: It's going to take a bit of time to fit into our dev cycle. We plan to have it save it per account so once you login it should revert to your preferred theme. I will update this thread once it gets implemented.

@SOedipus: We have just updated this so that the light/dark control is saved across your account. You may have to set it and save it once as we have changed the way we save this from cookies to database controls. Thanks!

I see it, it looks different, and even though i place it in dark, it dont' work no more ! Help !

@angerawr:

I checked the box for Dark theme but it didnt do anything...

I check the box for light theme and am still in the dark. Tried switching it to dark, applying, then back to light and applying, and still no light theme.

@angerawr: perma light theme here. won't change back?

After changing it in my profile settings, I surfed around maybe a half dozen pages on the site and it just randomly switched back. Maybe some kind of delay for effect.

@br0kenrabbit: So sorry there's a bit of a caching problem, give it some time and it should change to dark theme. Sorry for the inconvenience!

@bfa1509: You will have to scroll to the bottom and click save. Apologies we have a bit of a caching issue, so please check back in a couple hours to see if the dark theme is saved.

Don't know what you guys just did but my theme is switching back and forth between light and dark and I never changed my settings to light.

@suicidesn0wman: So sorry, because we switched it from a cookie save to a database save - everyone was reverted to light theme until they change it in settings. Because of the caching issue, will take a bit of time before the dark theme saves.

[edit: we are rolling back these changes as there were a lot of issues, we will fix this and release again later]

Thank you for the update.

@angerawr: This seems to be a recurring theme at gamespot, need to hire better programmers! :D

@angerawr Thanks. While I am glad to see that you've gotten the account preference sorted out, I still don't believe that the dark mode feature of the website should solely be hidden behind the site's login/account prefs. It is my belief that the toggle should still be available in the website's header, as well as account authentication preferences. Having the toggle at the top of the page surfaces the feature to new visitors, and having it as an account preference caters to your returning website account holders. Win-Win! :)

In it's current state, how would a new visitor know that the Gamespot website has a dark mode?

I only know about the feature because I used to come here frequently, and it is a feature that I used whether I was logging in for some quality time with Gamespot, or when I was just popping in for a quick peek without logging in.

A poor website UX is poor website design.

I hope that I haven't offended. That was not my intention.

Good luck. Have fun!

Standard feature of gamespot, now locked behind an account? Without notice of it changing?

Okay then..

Pain on the eyes coming here and seeing it white, then having to search the forum to find out what the heck happened.

I mean I barely visit Gamespot nowadays anyway (as of the design overhaul years ago which pretty much ruined the point of the site for me), but I still visit from gamefaqs news links to check out interesting articles, so I still care somewhat.

Pre-Edit: Oh and we can't post with adblock enabled, as I discovered after writing out my post and had to find ANOTHER thread talking about this. Now I care even less about the site..

Over one week and no fix, why do we need to be logged to gamespot to be able to view content on Dark mode.

Bring back the day/night toggle please.

I don't suppose that anyone here is handy with creating 'Stylish' themes for websites?

There are a few "dark Gamespot" themes at the userstyles website, but they are older or to touch up Gamespot's dark mode.

It would be a good fix for not having the toggle on the home page.