Renaud ChaputMar 28, 2024

Mastodon now supports automatic switching between the light and dark theme, depending on your system setting.

It will be available in the upcoming 4.3 version, or is already there if your instance runs the nightly code.

You can switch to this new automatic theme in your Appearance preferences. Instance admins can also set it as the default theme (I just did it on mastodon.social and mastodon.online).

This has been done in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29748, thanks a lot to @nshki for the initial PR!

Support "system" theme setting (light/dark theme depending on user system preference) by renchap · Pull Request #29748 · mastodon/mastodon

This is built on the work by @nshki in #20107 I rebased it, made the emoji selection code simpler and ensure it uses a consistent theme: in the web UI, the user setting is used, falling back to th...

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Show threadMartin HollandMar 28, 2024
@renchap
Hi, when is V 4.3 due? I'm asking because of the URLs in the preview cards. Will they be fixed?
Show threadRenaud ChaputMar 28, 2024
@mho Is there an issue for this?
Show threadMartin HollandMar 28, 2024
@renchap
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/27312
Change link previews to keep original URL from the status by Gargron · Pull Request #27312 · mastodon/mastodon

Fix #27056, fix #21308, fix #19538

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Show threadMartin Holland
@renchap
And? Any news on this?
Mar 29, 2024 at 6:06amWeb
Show threadRenaud ChaputMar 29, 2024
@mho it has been merged, so it will ship in 4.3. Current target is a release in 6-8 weeks
Show threadMartin HollandMar 29, 2024
@renchap
Cool, thank you!