Continuing the discussion from Horizon: High Context Topic Cards : [image] Horizon: High Context Topic Cards You can find it (after updating) in all site settings: [CleanShot 2026-01-27 at 10.50.07@2x] I am a little confused by this description. I have used the topic list excerpts theme comp…

Looks like I don’t need to understand Revert "UX: Unhide always_include_topic_excerpts setting" main ← revert-unhide-excerpts-setting merged 02:17PM - 27 Jan 26 UTC (UTC) …

Yes this is related to Horizon: High Context Topic Cards , the original thought was that we need to expose this setting so people can turn on excerpts in those Horizon topic cards without console access… but it’s a little bit of a dangerous setting to expose because if you enable it you add a lot of …

[image] Moin: but excerpts seem to work on my forum with the setting disabled and only topic list excerpts enabled. By default, we only serialize excerpts for :pushpin: pinned topics app/serializers/listable_topic_serializer.rb b946f9f94 def include_exce…

so what is the rationale for making new features horizon only? making new features limited to an in-core theme that can’t be customized seems to go against the general Discourse ethos? we can’t even use it in foundation? there are lines of code in core for horizon fixes specifically…

[image] awesomerobot: The follow-up is to instead enable the hidden site setting when the Horizon theme has topic card high context enabled So, if I change the setting in Horizon, it will change the hidden site setting? Does that mean that it will also be activated in safe mode because it is …

[image] Lilly: so what is the rationale for making new features horizon only? making new features limited to an in-core theme that can’t be customized seems to go against the general Discourse ethos? we can’t even use it in foundation? there are lines of code in core for horizon fixes specifical…

[image] zogstrip: Maybe the theme you’re using is using the modifier? I’m not sure what you’re getting at. I said that the topic list excerpts component worked without the setting before: [image] Moin: I have used the topic list excerpts theme component on my forum without issues before. …

[image] Lilly: making new features horizon only To be clear: the topic excerpts feature is not horizon-only. Any theme can enable it via the theme-modifier. Many themes do this. The site setting was the old way to do this, before theme modifiers existed. It was unhidden today because we brie…

[image] david: The site setting was the old way to do this, before theme modifiers existed. It was unhidden today because we briefly thought that it was the only way to make it a toggle-able option for users of horizon. But in fact, there is a way to make theme modifiers link to theme settings, …

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'Always include topic excerpt' setting

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