@SpeedyPandora Some instance admins set up custom themes. Cybrespace has special ｃｙｂｒｅ themes in both dark and light modes and a cool ~ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ~ Win95 theme.

You can also just use Stylish to do your own customizations, if you're at all familiar with CSS and browser inspector tinkering

@SpeedyPandora some instances allow you to customise the look, but most just have an instance-wide theme

@lizardsquid does this one just have an instance-wide look?

@SpeedyPandora at the moment, yes, because customisable stuff is still in development

@lizardsquid ahh, i see. i find it kind of hard to read the dark purple text on the almost-black background >.<

@SpeedyPandora oh... maybe we could ask @squirrel to make it lighter?

@lizardsquid @squirrel oh i don't want to be a bother. i'm sure i can just get used to it or something

@SpeedyPandora @lizardsquid hi there!

not a bother, i agree it's not super readable. the problem is with how mastodon scss is laid out, it's not so trivial to make native themes for it yet without much faffing about and changing anything in the server takes a 5-10 minute downtime i like to avoid whenever possible.

problem is my current dev environment is stuck on a broken computer waiting for a new motherboard so i can't make alterations to the theme at this time, sorry

@lizardsquid @SpeedyPandora also the reason why it's like this right now is it looked better on the crappy screen i was first editing it on and i didn't consider it would look worse on other screens with better contrast ratios