I guess there probably is a theme or component that does this. I’d like the list of topics to include at least the start of the topic text, facebook-like (ideally with a button to expand and display the whole topics inline) – or that simply includes the whole topic text directly. I think this will be really helpful for my members who will be coming from facebook-world where there are no titles and you can read through multiple posts without having to click through anything, just scroll.

There are a few ways [image] Topic List Previews (TLP) Theme component This is a Theme Component but has the option to add a complementary plugin. information_source Summary The original Topic Preview component that allows you to add images and excerpts (and more!) to the Topic List whilst being able to configure what additions appear on what list. hammer_and_wrench Repository Link GitHub - merefield/discourse-tc-topic-list-previews: Enriches the content and layout of topic lists · GitHub open_book Install Guide Installing a theme or theme com…

Hi, you have Topic list excerpt for this

Tool me a bit but there is also this one that maybe if interest. Lots of CSS options posted in the topic. [image] Topic Cards Theme component discourse2 Summary Topic Cards restyle the topic list to display as cards with a thumbnail eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository https://github.com/discourse/discourse-topic-cards open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component information_source This theme component may cause conflicts with other customisations to the topic list Features This component …

I think this theme is quite good: it has both topic excerpts as well as a Facebook-like design: [image] Fakebook Theme Theme discourse2 Summary Fakebook - I had a little fun with this one to showcase the flexibility of our theming system. This layout might look a bit familiar wink eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/Fakebook open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme Features The theme features a navigation sidebar, as well as a sidebar that showcas…

I’ve tried Fakebook but it really doesn’t work out on desktop. It’s also skewed towards publications with visuals imho, which will not be the case for us. I really like the idea but it’s not “polished” enough to be usable for me :-/ Is it worth me giving more specific feedback regarding the issues?

Review the code on GitHub. If you can identify the lines) of code related you can create a custom component and override it with your code. By adding ! important. The author or another member might provide the snippet your looking for as well.

I think usually the excerpt length is based on the site setting in core. A theme cannot change which data is available. It can request additional data, but doing that for every user on every post shown in the topic list would add a lot of requests. merefield’s plugin adds a separate setting because plugins can change what themes cannot.

[image] Moin: I think usually the excerpt length is based on the site setting in core. [image] Topic List Previews (TLP) Theme component I think the length depends on the Topic excerpt maxlength site setting.

This one maybe after a search.. [Screenshot_20251217-202600]

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stephtara (Stephanie Booth) December 15, 2025, 6:39pm 7

Topic List Previews is a pretty good match, thanks! Just need to figure out how to get “enough excerpt” to show up, rather than just a few lines.

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