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This essay outlined by MiniTool Software Ltd mainly teaches you how to make Reddit night mode for both its new and old websites on desktop or PC, as well as its mobile app. Read the following content for the detailed method!
If you surf the Internet much and usually dive into all kinds of communities, forums, and social networks (SNS), you will probably know Reddit, an American discussion, social news aggregation, as well as web content rating website.
However, do you know there is a dark mode for Reddit? By default, the Reddit website is of light mode. You may have noticed that some Reddit web page screenshots from others are of black color. Yes, they are using a dark mode different from normal users.
What Is Reddit Dark Mode?
Reddit dark mode is a kind of page design that takes advantage of black as its background color on reddit.com or the Reddit mobile app. It is also known as Reddit night mode, Reddit dark theme, or Reddit night theme. Since many popular websites and programs have already published their dark modes like Twitter and YouTube, it is a good option to have if you find browsing in a white mode harder especially at night.
Tip: For Reddit, there are https://www.reddit.com/ and https://old.reddit.com/two websites.
How to Turn on Reddit Night Mode?
For the new Reddit website https://www.reddit.com/ and the native Reddit mobile app, Reddit officials had released a top-requested feature called native dark mode for its users on May 28, 2021. It is a black theme for people who prefer black background instead of the classic white one. And, the Native Night Mode is suitable for men who usually browse late in the night.
It is easy to put Reddit in night mode on its web version. Just click on the downward arrow behind your account on the top-left of the screen and toggle on the Night Mode option in the drop-down menu.
For the mobile version of Reddit, to change Reddit to dark mode, click on your profile avatar in the top-left and click the moon icon behind the Settings option.
How to Make Old Reddit Dark Mode?
For night mode for old.reddit, you can rely on special browser plugins to make Reddit night mode, for example, Reddit Enhancement Suite RES extension. It is a community-driven unofficial browser add-on for Reddit. Reddit Enhancement Suite supports Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Chromium, Firefox, Dev, Discord, and of course Reddit. Yet, it has limited support for the redesign.
Tip: Reddit Enhancement Suite may also support Safari.
There are some other Reddit dark mode extensions like Dark Reader, an open-source addon, and Dark Theme for Reddit you can try. Dark Reader is a general dark theme creator for Facebook, Amazon, YouTube, Google search, Wikipedia, Twitter, and more. As a browser extension, it allows you to configure dark mode with brightness, contrast, and sepia. Dark Reader can enable dark mode for all your websites or just for particular domains.
The old Reddit night mode is either part of the RES implementation or the Reddit Gold themes. No matter what part it is, the implementation is bad for some users and someone thinks it is a trashy mobile-tier redesign that exists only to serve advertisers but not users. Yet, for the dark theme on RES, some users said it was absolutely perfect.
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