Dear All, Is there a component or functionality to add some excitement for a post. Like the one below. Something like a breaking news or a hot topic. I understand that we have a pin functionality. And also I understand that the latest topics come on top. But thought this would add some excitement. [image]

Why not just use a specific Tag and format it?, e.g. like they are done here: [image] Discourse Coloring Tag Theme component This is a Discourse theme component that allows admin to change tag’s background color and text color. Repository Link https://github.com/RailForWork/Discourse-Coloring-Tag [image] Theme Settings Comma delimited in this order: Tag Name,Background Color,Text Color. Tag Name: What your Tag Name is. Background Color: Background Color of the tag. Text Color: Decide the text color in the tag. A correct example for settings will be: [Theme-component,#ffffff,black.] (Both Background color an…

Stylish tags doesn’t work — and mostly because of lazy admins and content creators :wink: They don’t clean breaking news!!!111!1!! tags and quite soon everything is polluted with old news advertizing breaking one. And that’s why such tag/announcement must work under timer. We have right now one active topic about mobiles. Such tag or sketch of OP just doesn’t work. There is not enought space. Background color, perhaps. But hey… we have old netscape trick: blinking colors :rofl: Perhaps if a breaking news type would be lifted on the top and keeped separately? A bit like what we can do with carousels?

[image] Jakke Flemming: And that’s why such tag/announcement must work under timer. Exactly this one is what I was referring to.

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samp_one (samp one) March 4, 2023, 9:34am 4

Exactly this one is what I was referring to.

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