Continuing the discussion from Horizon: High Context Topic Cards : [afbeelding] 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…

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 …

[afbeelding] 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…

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…

[afbeelding] 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 i…

[afbeelding] 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 speci…

[afbeelding] 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: [afbeelding] Moin: I have used the topic list excerpts theme component on my forum without issu…

[afbeelding] 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…

[afbeelding] 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 setti…

'Always include topic excerpt' setting

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Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Horizon: High Context Topic Cards Announcements horizon-theme	20	1207	22 april 2026
Topic List Excerpts Theme component official , topic-list-excerpts	20	9026	20 maart 2025
How to add topic excerpt to all my topics Development	4	1549	20 juni 2022
How to show part of the text under the topic head? Support	1	602	26 juli 2022
Topic preview text Support	3	1128	25 maart 2022

'Always include topic excerpt' setting

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