Yep, just tested and it works fine.
Right, so ten internet points to anyone who writes that up as a user friendly how to on the docs site. 
In the mean time, could you maybe switch it back like it was, and let the internet point winner show those who want the faded unattractive version how to get that one?
Really, I’m trying to be diplomatic here with my feedback. I realize that it’s subjective. But, from the point of view of my one data point, you fixed something that wasn’t broken.
… and from other people’s point of view, we fixed something that was broken.
See the issue:
Ok, then. Looks like three peeps didn’t like it. I’m outvoted.
You’re not succeeding, which is probably not helping your case. We’re talking about a theme. It’s always going to be subjective. I like the new dark version better, as apparently did the author of it. Obviously, some people are bound to disagree. It stays.
I prefered the old one too tbh, herby I require we have DREXIT referendum over this.
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The new theme is much better imho
Wherein we promise it will be the darkest theme ever, however after you vote for it it turns out light grey and crashes Syncthing and we’re all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The darkest theme needs to be composed of dark matter, and it wont happen anytime soon. It should maybe be easier for people to drop in a custom theme more easily with a configuration option. IMHO the theme now is much more readable, still a matter of taste.
Its very subjective as you already said. Because we all have different tastes and maybe different Monitoring/Screen Settings… my initial PR was to add a new “Grey” Theme beside the old one.
But i like the idea to have a more simple way to add Custom Themes. So Jakob could ship/maintain Syncthing Core with an Light/Dark Default Theme, but for the different Tastes we have an easy mechanism to add more.
I would like to see some single file (Zip?), dropped into $configDir/themes/DarkMatter.zip (Its easier if you dont need to extract it in $configDir/gui/assets/css… etc)
With this, people could start creating other Themes. Sharing it in the Forum. Even with more curious Tastes… 
I will contribute an Matrix Style Theme then (Which wouldnt be accepted in Core i guess) 
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Currently you can just extract the theme’s zip file into the $configDir. The zip just needs to have the correct paths inside (gui/<theme name>/assets/css/theme.css).
The current approach is also much more flexible, as the “theme” can have a completely different UI, not just CSS.
Unfortunately, the Android App is limited to the default themes (without root) as one cannot put the files in the config folder. I would really like to stay with the Black theme instead of the new gray theme, as it’s better for OLED screens and I generally like black background better.
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Out of 3 devices (all Windows 10 Home ver. 1607) I have only being able to switch one to the Dark theme. On the other 2 a notice is displayed: “date time Decoding posted config: unexpected EOF”.
New dark is great. Especially on 10 bit monitors 
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Can’t say I liked the new low-contrast look on dark theme either, but as I was already using Stylish to make the GUI a bit more compact (with CSS), it was super easy to change.
Any ideas on syncing a theme to my other devices? Since they’re just linked devices without a specified “owner”, I guess it would have to be tied to a shared folder somehow.
I usually always use dark themes when available, but from some time the designers mistake dark for low contrast. Have a look at dd-wrt dark themes : really not made for day to day use. ST one although is better. Maybe this low contrast fashion has something to do with security concerns ?
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Thanks for the black theme - now I know it wasn’t my eyesight deteriorating when the dark theme went grey.
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And much appreciated.
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Thanks for making dark back 
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