New Page Backgrounds?

7whales

When I sign in, I now get to black background pages rather then the usual white background on all the pages. After several attempts usually the regular pages with the white backgrounds appear.

Anyone else find this happening, and at the top of the black background page it says that the idea was suggested by members.

Thanks,

7whales.

pepsi2018

7whales I had the same thing happen on my app about an hour ago & didn’t like the dark mode , so I deleted the app & reinstalled it again from the App Store & now it’s all gone back to the white background as normal 🇬🇧

mrbond007

7whales
I hadn’t noticed

untz

7whales when I login the ‘dark mode’ seems to go.

darren1900

7whales I’ve had that so I logged out of the forum waited a while logged back in no more white background

tonic98

7whales welcome
would be dark mode. log out and back in

frenchielove

7whales are you sorted now?

basil1921

7whales Still white background for me.

pepsi2018

7whales I’ve also noticed everything is now on the home page , you don’t have to swipe left now to buy your next goody bag or add credit it’s all on the home page & looks much better & easier 🇬🇧

natasa80

7whales weird mine is white

mrjeeves

7whales

This is because of the new Dark Mode which shouldn’t be enabled for members yet.

@alex_w It switches on for guests who have their OS in Dark Mode, but seems to sometimes carry over until after they’ve logged in in some situations.

I can push an update for the extension if needed to disable the dark mode for guests for the moment.

funnymarv

Hmmm mine is still white

tonicurtis1967

Mines still white

7whales

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. I logged out, cleared my cache and cookies, and logged back in. Same first page, black. After several movements through some forums, the page is now it’s usual white background. But it shouldn’t now be necessary to do that.

For hundreds even thousands of years, with few exceptions, most books, novels, manuscripts, maps, charts, and most other written pages have been on a white or at least a light colored background. Now all of a sudden some members suggest using a black background page and it immediately affects other members, both long timers and newbies. What, if any, is their motive for doing so? I wonder if those who suggested the change have the guts (for lack of a stronger word) to admit that it was they who suggested the change, and why?

The only time I have ever seen a black page used is on a newspaper’s front page is if a very famous person, such as a politician or celebrity has passed away, never for any other reason.

Thanks again for all the replies.

7whales.

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harrrrrry

7whales For hundreds even thousands of years, with few exceptions, most books, novels, manuscripts, maps, charts, and most other written pages have been on a white or at least a light colored background.

True, but that in itself isn’t quite a fair comparison with what you see on a computer screen. Books have never been printed on transparent paper and read with an intense bright white light put behind them. And screens have been getting progressively brighter over the years. White paper only reflects a percentage of the light in a room.

The white on a computer screen is often a lot brighter than that of a book in reasonable ambient light – here’s an example of a book being read at a comfortable lighting level, compared with that of a page on screen (and that’s after deliberately under-exposing the photo to stand any chance of even seeing there was any text on the giffgaff page 😮 ):

Personally though, I wouldn’t go for Black Mode. My preference, for easy legibility and comfortable reading, is a silver-grey background and black text – which, for comparison with the previous image, does indeed render a more “book-like” reading experience as seen here in an example under identical lighting conditions and with the same exposure:

Incidentally, that comfortable legibility can be achieved in firefox using the Tranquility addon. The original web site is no better than giffgaff’s. Sadly though, the giffgaff forum doesn’t play nicely with Tranquility:

mrjeeves

7whales

If the page shows as black, it means you have dark mode enabled on your PC/phone. This is for certain if you’re logged out and it shows as dark.

7whales

My original post in GD was getting many replies and responses. Now on Feedback it will be lost for most on giffgaff to see and answer. Please return it to the GD forum where most can see it and reply.

Thanks,

7whales.

bill48er

7whales My original post in GD was getting many replies and responses. Now on Feedback it will be lost for most on giffgaff to see and answer. Please return it to the GD forum where most can see it and reply.

Hi, you may get a lot of discussion in GD but to get the attention of those that developed the software behind the app and forum go for feedback 😉
Contribute is another area that is a good place to flag up issues 😀

7whales

mrjeeves I never enabled the change to dark mode on this, my older (bought new in 2011) pc, so how did it suddenly change over a week ago?

How can I now get rid of the dark mode if I didn’t activate it myself?

7whales.

7whales

Current login still brought me to the Dark Mode, even though I hadn’t ever changed any of my giffgaff settings either then or now. Many added clicks and jumping to the different forums finally brought me to the usual white pages I’m on now.

Glad to be once again on the easier reading pages (for me) that I’d become used to on giffgaff over the years. But I’m getting really annoyed and frustrated that I still have to jump through many hoops to get here.

Never changed my own settings for this, can someone at giffgaff please let me login to just my usual, more easily read, pages.

Thanks,

7whales.

mrjeeves

7whales

Refreshing after login would fix it.

alex_w

7whales

Is the site still providing you with the dark mode theme on new logins after managing to restore the normal theme in your above post?

If so, would you mind sending me a private message detailing the pages you go through in order to get it to disable the dark mode? Might help us with diagnosing the issue for you.