Modest, a minimal theme for Discourse

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Modest, a Minimal Theme for Discourse

meghna introduced Modest, an ultra-minimal theme for Discourse, which removes elements like homepage posters and views columns, composer preview panes, and topic footers. The theme aims for simplicity and has a clean design, as shown in the provided screenshots.

Users have provided feedback and suggestions for improvement, including applying a max-width to the composer, which meghna has already implemented. Other suggestions include hiding the full screen button in the editor, as mentioned by codinghorror, and adding buttons for quoting and uploading, which devporto found difficult to do without.

However, dax warned that the theme is currently broken with the latest version of Discourse and should not be installed until the issue is fixed. awesomerobot has submitted a pull request for updates to the theme.

This aims to be an ultra-minimal theme for Discourse. Various elements of the UI has been removed in favour of simplicity.

Some of the removed elements:

  • Homepage (topic list) posters avatar column
  • Homepage (topic list) views column
  • Composer preview pane
  • Composer toolbar
  • Topic map
  • Topic footer buttons
  • Topic timeline footer controls

Homepage:

Homepage with composer open:

Topic page:

Topic reply composer:

Here is the feedback topic I created for this theme – Envisioning an ultra minimal theme for Discourse.

Let me know how this theme can be further improved. Enjoy! :slight_smile:

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Maybe it’s worth applying a max-width: 740px on the composer to mimic the “Hide Preview” mode?

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Thanks for the suggestion! Made the change in:

https://github.com/MeghnaAJ/discourse-modest-theme/commit/383b0103cd7bb40806085d1386860d54f905aa28

Updated the first post with latest screenshots.

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Nice minimal theme @meghna !

Did find it hard to edit posts without buttons to quote, upload, etc.

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I suggest hiding the full screen button in the editor as well, which is visible in the above screenshot.

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This theme is temporary broken with the latest version of Discourse.

Do not install it until we fix the issue.

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I’ve got a PR for some updates here:

https://github.com/MeghnaAJ/discourse-modest-theme/pull/3

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