Problem with Overlay board theme

There is a problem with the Overlay board, All of the sudden it just looks the same as Translucent. That is, washed looking.

It used to look like this:

And now:

It is worth noting that it happened after I subscribed

I believe there was a change in how that was presented, based on some new code being implemented.

This happened to me too even before I subscribed. I had a wonderful blue theme but now it looks bad.

This is a pretty big deal for me. I use a completely black background because my eyes get strained when I play at night. Now everything is very bright.

When will this be fixed?

The current overlay design was the fix to make them work with the new themes code.

Is there some workaround to make it transparent again?

As a suggestion, there could just be a different jpg that you could upload for the dark squares and the light squares (or even each square individually), thus making a fully custom board. Sounds not too hard to implement.

My guess is if there was an easy way, based on the way themes work, the developer would have used that method.

Okay we really need this back, you should tell us if you are working on it or not.

I have an issue with this overlay background change as well.

There is essentially no dark mode. It doesn't matter if the rest of the UI is black, almost the entire screen is covered by the board. I find it hard to play at night.

Please fix this. Playing chess requires you to look at the screen relaxed, and that's hard to do in a dark room at 2am when the light just burns your eyes.

I'm not aware of anything different being done.

I solved it
If you're on the web browser once you start a game right click anywhere on the page and click inspect
Once you do this click Ctrl+F and search for "Board-styles"

you're more likely to find one result for this if you're on a live game page
then click the arrow to see the code text
right click on any text and choose edit text

Then change the URL to this "https://i.imgur.com/F8CSnz2.png"

And you'll be good to go!

Note: this will go away once you refresh the page but it will stay if you start new game.

Developers, this person has solved the problem for you. Can you at least please implement it, so that we don't have to do this every time we start a game?

Ridiculous stuff. As expected, the solution was incredibly simple (just changing the board background image). I can't believe that the chess.com team hasn't fixed this yet.

Good job figuring this out! And thank you for your service.

Thank you Solus1pse, I actually tried making the dark squares darker in a new jpg as you mentioned before but it simply not possible because the layer on top is fixed which is the board, and no matter what you do you'll still get gray result even if the background is black so that's the only solution for now I guess.

To make it permanent tho is another challenge. I'll try some methods to save inspect changes in 
the browser so it doesn't go after refreshing.

Also you can try GIFs as well not just PNGs