The design team are in the process of making small but powerful changes/tweaks to the foundation theme to align a bit closer to modern web standards. To view these changes live on meta, join this group:
We will be making this change live through the new Upcoming Changes feature available in Discourse. This will allow site owners to enable the changes for any group they specify, in order to test the roll out of the changes without the fear of possibly breaking themes or current customizations.
the gist button dropdown has a scrollbar (overflow on the fk-d-menu maybe?), and probably doesn’t need the same min-width: 200px as other such dropdown-menu classes.
Oops, I assumed the screenshots were taken on meta but I didn’t even think of checking it.
Small but weird behavior. On the regular theme, when we release the mouse button on , it instantly triggers the show or close sidebar’s animation.
On the new theme, when we release the mouse button on when the sidebar is closed, there’s a split second of waiting before the sliding animation is triggered. Doesn’t happen if we click the icon when the sidebar is visible.
I’m probably hallucinating
Can I leave the group to compare changes with the old theme? I don’t see the leave option.
Would you please allow me to leave the @modernized-foundation group.
Edit: Now, after leaving the group, I can add a comparison screenshot of the new topic button.
It seems some icon colors don’t work well with the wcag palette.
And, for example, the group selector on the top left of the group page doesn’t really support 2 lines.
I like most of the changes. They are subtle. Some I don’t even see the difference unless I look at the CSS values (sidebar icon and text colors, topic list read and unread colors)
Before / After
I like the emphasized new topic button. I actually customized it like that on my forum a long time ago (until my code broke and I didn’t bother fixing it).
While I like the new button style, I feel they lack contrast with the background in certain areas, especially the topic footer.
It looks messy. The buttons don’t look like they belong to a specific section, unlike the previous version. They just kind of… sit there. I don’t know if it makes sense.
Another example where the icon and text color do not match is the expand button on my profile
This is how it looks when I leave the group:
I think you didn’t mention that not only the font size of the table headers, but also the size of the numbers in the Replies, Views, and Activity columns, seem to be decreased.
I think the icon in the language dropdown is now very large in relation to the text.
Before:
(sidebar icon and text colors, topic list read and unread colors)
