I have no idea how that other one was like, but i guess you could create an issue at the repo with what you like to be changed (link to repo is 
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PS: Thanks to your reply i just noticed this thread 
I might as well do what i just suggested wrt my own post: 
There was another dark theme, it disappeared yesterday.
It was the official Discourse dark theme. I liked it too. I preferred the blue accent instead of the green. I guess we’re back at crafting our own modification from external browser plugins.
I miss the dark theme too. Just disappeared and reset me to the default light theme yesterday.
The old dark theme is discourse default, has no manjaro branding, I think one dark theme is enough.
I think the point is some people want something dark … without all the extra fluff.
I didnt really want the default dark… but close to it, turned teal, with some mods to not have stark white at the bottom and such. (so I added some css)
Now we only have the option of this material dark that has extra spacing, larger buttons, other format changes, the cityscape imaging and the, to me anyways, intrusive-feeling ‘multi-tone arrow banner’ at the top.
I see no problem with having more themes, as long as they don’t require much maintenence.
People will complain for whatever branding or graphical additions. They will always point what they dislike, with no much mention of better alternative, nor objective justification of it, and this “personal taste” will always create frictions …
I second this. Nice as the new forum theme is, I prefer the older one that was removed. This one feels a little busy for my tastes.
Could always put it to a vote to see which of the dark themes people prefer…
why do you say that? I gave 3+ examples and even wrote my own alternative…
I subjectively think the arrows at top are not to my liking…
but I also have a pretty strong feeling that its objectively ‘too busy’ as well.
I wasn’t talking about you, and where i can see that alternative? Thanks!
@codesardine - @Chrysostomus
We should provide a theme with no banner and no custom background for footer, and members be able to chose color-schemes they like. There are a few already, and we could make a few based on community members feedback. Regarding the style, we could have the default discourse one and those that prefer materia to have that.
I have no objections, but a long backlog. I can do it as some point, but if someone else had the time first they are welcome to do so.
I am not sure this is the final version I was using, but nonetheless…
I was just injecting this onto the ‘basic dark’:
Is this what you had in mind ?
The only issue is that some of your custom -low -medium and low-or-tertiary-high from --tertiary might not work exactly as when set manually. To get the exact color you proposed we need custom addition to the scss. I tried that and the result is okayish fot the Material style, but for the flat one is not quite what i would call appealing.
The footer is like this
with a dark footer that would still be my favorite - just to add my two cents ^^
The manjaro-dark-theme has gotten better than at the start, but i still think it has to little optical separation between threads, reactions and so on.
And i agree the arrow-header is pretty busy.
Like I said maybe its not the final one … theres a few funnny file names sitting around.
I wouldnt want to leave the bottom white either.
But for a mock-up it roughly shows the preference.
PS … I would also change #site-logo like:
class:logo-big
class:logo-small
When we started the new forum, we had those icons and needed change to the green we have now. Don’t know if there can be two logo-big and two logo-small, depending on the theme. For sure @codesardine knows more about this. We could use those icons for the non banner and no footer graphics theme …
Please get the old dark theme back. It’s good to have a clean no-nonsense theme, which is easy to modify (my edits were made for that). The material dark theme has distracting unnecessary images (2 - top and bottom).
Why is it difficult to change it to a dark color?
