Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Add native support for AMOLED (black background) dark mode as theme option

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AMOLED

@Ldub0775 I have no idea what AMOLED dark mode is. Can you link to it ? Which wiki has this gadget ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:41, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

this makes little sense. Amoled is a display technology that is superior in displaying darker color tones on a screen. But it has nothing to do with dark mode in and of itself. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 17:58, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

I think the AMOLED dark mode means a color theme with a pure black background (one for Discord), compared to the standard dark mode usually with a dark gray background. Cookai🍪 _(💬talk) 07:22, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

It makes total sense to me: a dark mode for AMOLED. Some apps do provide pitch-black and just dim dark modes. But MediaWiki's native dark mode is already pretty dark, so a fulfillment of this wish might mean providing a lighter dark mode rather than a darker dark mode. Nardog (talk) 13:05, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Apologies for the late reply, by "AMOLED" I mean a dark mode where the background is a stark black. On Twitter, for example, there are three theme options: black text on a white background (light mode), white text on a dark-blue background (dark mode), and white text on a black background (AMOLED dark mode). The term comes from screens with OLED displays where each pixel lights up individually. The wiki I was referring to is Wikipedia, which has the "Dark mode toggle".

I prefer the aesthetics of the black background to the recently added gray background dark mode, but the native support isn't there. Ldub0775 (talk) 21:40, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

I prefer a dark gray mode on desktop and and a black background on mobile. However, while a gray mode is available in the Wikipedia app, it's not available on desktop. There, only a black background is available (natively and when toggling via the dark mode gadget as you described) so far so to me it's a bit unclear which change you'd like to see. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:52, 10 May 2025 (UTC)