Had to built a "theme color" switcher for a website. Total waste of time, but the desktop app had it and customer was convinced it was a key feature.

What? I love it when websites have this feature

@j4cobgarby it's no necessity, though, it's useful in some regard.

@j4cobgarby There's always people who like ability to tweak, but it's not adding much to the product in this case. And, instead of having to do the UI once, we needed to make sure it worked well for every single choice of colour scheme. And then people didn't like the choice of colour schemes.

Would never have been a issue if site didn't offer it in the first place.

I have to say that I don't spend too much time worrying about the colour scheme of web sites I visit. If it's clear, then I'm in, grab the info and out.

Totally unnecessary feature. Who needs a light theme anyway? Put dark theme as default and call it a day 🙃

Not that difficult if you use CSS variables on the site. Just change the value of the variable, and voilà

@platypus
Website didn't add it to follow the smartphone/app who offer the same choice ?
Tbh I like dark theme but I don't check if it's available on website every time.
Except on YouTube, because it's much better in dark mode.

@osx94 It was a completely unnecessary feature in terms of the functionality of the site. More code to write and maintain.

If it had been a content creation site, or something that was a primary tool for the users, then there might have been value in it.

However, this was like being able to change the colour scheme on the Pizza Hut website. Who would piss their time away on such things.

Basically, the desktop app had used a UI framework that had this feature, so the devs had enabled it---because "free" functionality, right?

But now the "feature" had become something that was seen as desirable---with no evidence that it was ever used.

Once a visual feature gets in a code base, it's harder to take out as you are perceived to have "degraded" the experience.

The skill in design is usually what you choose to leave out.

@platypus
I know it's not a key feature, actually you make me think we didn't ask you what kind of website your working on, if you can talk about it of course.

And I see the idea, I have encounter the same situation with unnecessary features asked because "one did it".

From my short experience I have make the conclusion than people like things they can see over the rest.

So useless but pretty feature can add a lot of "value" to your product, even if this is just cosmetic.

I'he probably overkill for your site but try to add it anyway to pass to something that's really matter 😉

@osx94 Fortunately that project was a while ago. I don't have to concern myself with it any more.

wtf, i love things like this

Well, it's extremely easy to implement and it's always nice for the user to have the opportunity to customise his theme.