The white, it burns
September 22, 2015 7:34 PM Subscribe
Please help me change my Twitter background to anything other than plain, boring, bright white.
Back in July, Twitter just up and decided to not allow photos as background images and removed them. Ok, fine, whatever, it's a free site, but damn, that white is working my nerves these past few months. I went into settings and it looks like I should be able to change to premade themes that have backgrounds that are not white, but nothing on the background changes after I click "Save changes". Strangely enough, this is a known problem that changes don't stick.
It has been a few months and I'm wondering if anyone figured out a way to change the Twitter background to anything darker than that white?
I'm also curious as to why Twitter - used by millions of people each day - would leave those options there to change backgrounds when it is obviously broken and has been since July?
Thanks in advance Mefi!
Back in July, Twitter just up and decided to not allow photos as background images and removed them. Ok, fine, whatever, it's a free site, but damn, that white is working my nerves these past few months. I went into settings and it looks like I should be able to change to premade themes that have backgrounds that are not white, but nothing on the background changes after I click "Save changes". Strangely enough, this is a known problem that changes don't stick.
It has been a few months and I'm wondering if anyone figured out a way to change the Twitter background to anything darker than that white?
I'm also curious as to why Twitter - used by millions of people each day - would leave those options there to change backgrounds when it is obviously broken and has been since July?
Thanks in advance Mefi!
The canonical answer for such things is to use Greasemonkey (wiki) with a little script to change the background color.
It looks like this little tutorial for beginners tells you exactly how to do it.
If you're not using Firefox as your browser, the Greasemonkey wikipedia article details similar add-ons for other browsers that allow greasemonkey (or similar) scripts to do the same trick.
posted by flug at 8:13 PM on September 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
It looks like this little tutorial for beginners tells you exactly how to do it.
If you're not using Firefox as your browser, the Greasemonkey wikipedia article details similar add-ons for other browsers that allow greasemonkey (or similar) scripts to do the same trick.
posted by flug at 8:13 PM on September 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
The pattern/background only appears on an individual tweet's page (Cher as an example).
It's not so much broken as a design/funcionality decision Twitter made.
posted by O9scar at 8:39 PM on September 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
It's not so much broken as a design/funcionality decision Twitter made.
posted by O9scar at 8:39 PM on September 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
This is exactly the sort of thing the Stylish extension is for. There are even a bunch of user styles for twitter already out there that you can install without mucking around with CSS/Javascript directly.
posted by Aleyn at 11:38 PM on September 22, 2015
posted by Aleyn at 11:38 PM on September 22, 2015
If you use Firefox, have you tried the Stylish extension? Perhaps you can change the background color using it.
posted by terrapin at 6:59 AM on September 23, 2015
posted by terrapin at 6:59 AM on September 23, 2015
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posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 8:00 PM on September 22, 2015 [1 favorite]