Can't update the Minima theme from 2.5.1 to 3.0 on GitHub Pages

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Hi, folks!

First of all, I’d like to disclosure that not only I’m a total novice on tech stuff, I’m also on the same level regarding GitHub and, worst of all, Ruby and Jekyll.

I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how to update the Minima theme from 2.5.1 to 3.0.

From what I understand, the 3.0 version is the only one capable of rendering the “skin: dark” setting, so that’s what I’m aiminf for.

Could someone help me out by shedding a light over this issue?

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To use Minima 3, I believe you can use remote_theme. Here’s @ashmaroli explanation: https://github.com/jekyll/minima/issues/411#issuecomment-730160996

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Right! That is exactly what I did:

However, the webpage is still not showing the dark theme.

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Maybe a typo when you added skin: dark? The sub-field skin should be indented with two spaces like this:

minima:
  skin: dark

Commit with typo:

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I went ahead and added the two indented spaces before “skin: dark”, as per the following commit:

However, as you can see on the webpage bacalhaunabrisa.com, it is still not showing the dark theme. I did another commit after adding the indented spaces and the website updated with that new info, so I don’t htink it is a deployment problem on the commit regarding the indented spaces.

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Wait, I don’t know what happened, but it suddenly changed to the dark theme!

Wow, I can’t even believe it!

Thank you so much for your help chuckhoupt

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Looks like you got one of the dark themes working…

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Yes, I did! And thank you so much for your help, I wouldn’t be able to do it otherwise

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