GitHub changes topbar to dark theme

At first I thought it was similar to the HN black bar, paying respect to someone they lost. But I guess it is there to stay

The timing of this is a funny coincidence as Stack Overflow has just been rolling out their own new navigation topbar [0] to the sounds of &quot;PLEASE, theme it dark&quot; from their meta community. A lot of it just sounds like bikeshedding to me, but it&#x27;s funny timing nonetheless.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;343106&#x2F;2619939" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;343106&#x2F;2619939</a>

1. i don&#x27;t like it, contrast too jarring.<p>2. why is this front-page worthy? is there someone who might have missed this? is it especially important&#x2F;interesting?<p>it&#x27;s like those stupid &quot;Github is down!&quot; posts. i&#x27;m sure anyone who cares already knows.<p>who upvotes this crap?

It seems that I am unable to change the theme back to light.<p>Have tried:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;?light" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;?light</a><p>Is this controlled from a setting somewhere?

This seems kinda pointless without the remainder being dark-themed as well.

This makes it harder to tell at a glance whether I&#x27;m on github.com or GitHub Enterprise.

It appears to work w&#x2F;out the `?dark`: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;</a>

I do wish Github had a dark theme option at least. Sometimes I do a lot of reading on there at night, and all that white is too much.

Is this purposeful or a mistake? If mistake, I&#x27;m surprised it hasn&#x27;t been reverted yet.

Broke <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;deluminate&#x2F;iebboopaeangfpceklajfohhbpkkfiaa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;deluminate&#x2F;iebboop...</a>

Github for Enterprise has had a dark bar for a while, possibly to distinguish it from Github.com

I hate it, I can&#x27;t even see my (mostly black) avatar against the black background.

Before everybody goes crazy. You can change the header to the light version again by going into your Settings -&gt; Design.<p>Some people are still missing this option in their settings, but it will show up soon.

I wonder if there&#x27;s any significance too this.

I wish I could undo this with ?light.<p>&gt;:[

It&#x27;s ugly.<p>The stark contrast with the rest of the site hurts.

Why?