Can't switch to black color scheme on mobile

I'm on iOS and for a while now I simply can't switch to the black theme. I press the button and it does nothing. It's not a huge issue but the black on white hurts my eyes and drains the battery.

Same on iPad, ever since the theme switch was placed into the user dropdown menu.

I'm on Android, and I can't either. Just updated my phone to Lollipop the other day, and it worked before I did that.

@mooseymcman: Just tried this myself on Android: long-press your profile button on the main page. That should be the Android equivalent of hovering over it with your mouse. Not sure if it's the same for iOS though.

@gaff: I'm not really sure what that was supposed to accomplish? That just brings up a menu asking if I want to do things like open the link in a new tab.

@mooseymcman: Never mind, I'm stupid: my lollipop tablet shows the "normal" site. Should've checked my phone.

It still doesn't work.

Yup. I've been viewing the site on the light theme for weeks, like some sort of crazy person :-P

Happened to me on my android phone, had to clear my cookies/cache and reboot the phone but it worked after that.

Hmm... It looks like clearing the cookies on the phone allows me to change theme once. So if you want to change your theme try clearing cookies then changing theme. I'll create a ticket to get this fixed properly.

I cleared my cookies and still cannot switch to dark theme. I'm on iOS.

I'm on Lollipop and it hasn't worked for me for a long time.

I feel disgusting every time I do it, but I keep doing it out of my love for the site.

It wasn't working for me either, until I tapped like a madman for far to long and it somehow changed. I'm just glad it hasn't changed back yet.

@humanity: I did what @wcarle suggested and cleared the cookies on Chrome on my iPad, and I was able to change the theme to the dark one and then re-login with the theme choice intact. Might be worth a shot. I'm very glad to be rid of the retina-burning white devil theme.

You can do it, but its tricky. Try zooming in on the button when you do it. You also have to be quick

That weird fix I mentioned may only work in chrome mobile. I put a ticket in to get this fixed so hopefully we'll be able to get to it soon. Sorry about that, I know how much you guys like your themes :)

@rongalaxy: I think it depends on your browser. When using Chrome on iOS, I have normally noticed a lot of drop down menu buttons not being triggered when you tap them (not just on GiantBomb). I've tried zooming on the theme change button in the account drop-down and it always registers my tap on whatever is underneath (for example, when on the main forum page on GB my tap registers on is the forum search field that the theme change button is positioned over in the drop-down).

What worked for me on Chrome iOS, as @wcarle suggested, was clear Chrome's cookies (which logs you out of GB upon your next visit), change the theme (since the theme button for non-logged in people is a dedicated button on the nav bar) and then log back in to GB.

Hey guys, we have a fix for this in testing. Should go out after Big Live Live Show, we don't want to break anything before the show so we are being really stingy with releases.

Fix for this is live! Go switch your skins, no cookie clearing malarkey required.

Hooray it works!

Nothing like some vodka and nacho cheese to get those bug fixing juices going.

@humanity: Will is now on a forced diet, don't worry.

@jslack: food poisoning?

Yay! Working for me too! :D

@humanity: Yes, we've put him on a diet of forced food poisoning.

@jslack: you monsters..

Wow, never seen this version work on my phone before.

Won't lie. Highlight of the week so far.

:D :D :D