How many of you immediately switched to black theme

Yep, also these polls don't look very nice.

If I wanted lots of white I'd play Antichamber again.

And now, a Giant Bomb PSA:

Switch to black.

It's the green thing to do.

Once I went black I never went back.

I couldn't switch back to black fast enough.

I am both conserving energy and stylish by sporting the black theme.

Love me some black.

@super2j: Maybe not the same thing as you're thinking of but f.lux has alleviated a ton of eye-strain from my long-term computer use.

Never not black.

@vaancor: Thankyou, spent quite a few minutes searching for the button before I found this thread.

Right away. The white made me feel like I wasn't a duder anymore and neither was anyone esle. It felt like a bad dream. Like a giving a book report in front of the class naked sort of thing.

I switched to black, hated it, switched back to white.

Only terrible people like white websites. It's a fact that has been scientifically proven.

lol. I am already on the f.lux train. But it is not enough, some nights when its dark enough.... any white like is bad, especially because most of my themes are dark.

I switched back to black but I might try the white out sometime. Makes the site look too much like Polygon...

I couldn't agree with you more.

If it ain't black, it ain't Giant Bomb.

@vaancor said:

First click I made on the new site. White's a lil too eyeball melting for me.

Only found this after I found my sunglasses.

The white is crap. I am just glad the site finally stopped bugging long enough for me to change it (I tried multiple times before, never seemed to work). Not to mention it actually has let me post two times in a row without an error. You go site.

I changed it so quickly, I never even saw what the default website even looked like

I'm not a fan of staring at lightbulbs. Black thanks.

I would think about using the white if the big black bar didn't stay the same. Looks so disjointed with the white.

I feel ya :( My wallpaper rotation consists of mainly grayscale and mostly black images but sometimes I've just gotta set it to solid black.

Giant Bomb will always be a black website in my heart.

I knew I was too late to post this.

But yeah, black > errything

Stop trying to push your white agenda on me!

I don't understand why it would default to white.

Yep.

White hurts my eyes so much I was so glad black was still an option.

I'm fairly sure that it was scientifically proven for print, and it was found that the reverse was true for computer monitors (i.e. white on black).

They need to make black the default, I've logged in a few times now from different computers and every time I have to change it to the black color scheme.

White was way too bright for my eyes.

I can only imagine the hardcore reaction there would be if they didnt offer a black site. I know there would be one because that's one of the few things about this site I would actually freak out about.

I prefer the white theme. Dark text on a light background is easier on my eyes.

First thing I did. I actually just switched back to white for a second to remind myself of the difference, and HOLY SHIT how on earth does anyone prefer white?

Giant Bomb has ALWAYS been a black site. I remember the version of the site with the silly-looking brick background, and even then it was all black.

Switched to dark theme when I got to the new site for the first time

I went black on the colour scheme but it won't keep, probably another bug.

I switched so quickly that I barely noticed there was a white theme.

Then I saw the page on my phone and I couldn't log in, so it was stuck on white. I have an Android phone. Nothing is ever white. I had to quit out.

I prefer the white I think but it's too damn bright and it's just downright ungiantbombian.

Yeah, first thing I did. I hate white websites.

Kill the white with fire!

No, not the race...

Schwarz.

I find white text on black hard on my eyes, but this new white theme is pretty ugly. What to do, what to do.

Agreed!

^--Basically this.

All sites should be dark themed, makes it so much easier to look at them for long stretches, so yep switched to black immediately.

While this was in beta the white site seemed alright but I prefer the black site over that version.

I switched fairly quickly, but I will say that the white background is TOTALLY usable. So much so that it took me a little bit to realize it was in anyway different.