BBC Dark
Used to darken the look of the BBC website.
Total ratings
3.44
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Provides a much-needed dark mode for BBC sites
- Helps reduce eye strain, especially for older users
- Fixes issues with clash between BBC News and default Chrome/Windows dark themes
- Users appreciate the extension's functionality and express gratitude
Cons
- Text can be difficult to read due to poor contrast with the background
- Issues reported with the extension not working on the latest version of the BBC website
- Some users mention that it stops working or needs frequent updates
- Specific elements, like sports scores, are highlighted as needing fixes
Most mentioned
- Text readability issues
- Extension sometimes not functioning properly
- Users express gratitude for the extension
- Difficulties with color contrast between text and background
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-11 |  | | en | This is an easy 5 stars for me. Huge thanks, Deco, for doing this. There are huge numbers of folk like myself who really struggle with the uncomfortable mass of light that hits our eyes when viewing sites like the BBC, who don't provide a 'Dark Mode'. It's especially problematic for older folk, where their pupils don't react at the same speed as younger folk. What you are doing does work very well, however, for minor fine tuning, are you able to identify (e.g. through the page's HTML code), all the text on each web page? Some of grey tones on the mapped text can be on the dark side, thus a bit difficult to read e.g. The text descriptions for the 7 categories (Home, News, Sport, Weather, iPlayer, Sounds, Bitesize) next to the icons at the top of the "bbc.co.uk" page. To fix this, it might be helpful to simply set all text to the one readable tone, or, if you can see the colour values, make sure the darker tones are not so dark. Again, cheers for this. It's helped me greatly. |
| 2024-09-26 |  | | en | Works great, the banner on the sports scores and fixtures needs fixing if you get the chance, cheers |
| 2024-08-28 |  | | en | Dark mode yeah,.. the text however is dark also and I can't read the text,... I wanted this to work. Grrrr. Please look into this. |
| 2024-03-27 |  | | en | Thanks for making this, it works great. |
| 2024-03-15 |  | | en | It is not working on the latest release of the BBC website which is complete white. I would like to use this tool but it either doesn't work on the home page, or changes the article page black but the words stay dark so are not visible. Please update to allow as I would be really grateful to this add-on. I understand this could be hard to upkeep. Maybe you could collect taken value for installation? |
| 2024-03-05 |  | | en | Oh no, it's stopped working on Chrome. I used to really enjoy it. It's back as you said it would be. So happy!! Thank you - can I buy you a coffee? |
| 2022-02-24 |  | | Thanks very much for this extension, it works great! I was having issues with BBC News clashing with the default chrome/windows dark theme, causing it to be unreadable, installing this has fixed it. Thanks again for your time put into making this :) | |
| 2022-02-24 |  | | en | Thanks very much for this extension, it works great! I was having issues with BBC News clashing with the default chrome/windows dark theme, causing it to be unreadable, installing this has fixed it. Thanks again for your time put into making this :) |
| 2021-08-28 |  | | The text was pretty much the same colour as the background. | |
| 2021-08-28 |  | | en | The text was pretty much the same colour as the background. |
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