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

@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.

@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.