Thanks for your prompt response, and apologies for the tone of my previous message. I was just frustrated after losing two days trying to set up the Discourse app.
I ended up disabling the hosted site and decided to go with the self-hosted version instead.
My frustration stemmed from the fact that, after installing several different themes, I couldn’t remove the sidebar and the welcome message from the homepage. The screenshots of the themes didn’t show those components, but even after installing them, both the sidebar and the welcome message continued to appear in my setup.
After many hours, I finally learned that to remove the sidebar, I had to change the “Navigation menu” setting from “Sidebar” to “Header Dropdown.” I also discovered that removing the welcome message required creating a new theme and manually adding the following CSS:
.welcome-banner {
display: none !important;
}
Initially, I (mistakenly) expected that installing a theme would automatically give me the layout shown in its screenshot, without needing additional configuration or CSS changes. That’s why it felt like the themes “weren’t working.” But I understand now. I’m just a regular user, and I eventually figured it out.
Thanks again,