Halloween Decorations 👻

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The official Discourse theme component “Halloween Decorations” adds spooky desktop-only animations—bats, spider webs, and a pumpkin loading spinner—to forums during the festive season. It’s available for Standard, Business, and Enterprise plans, and users can report issues or suggest improvements via dedicated Meta categories Support, Bug, UX, and Feature requests. Users like WorldIsMine and famousamos.1 praise its subtle, fun design, though Jagster and others note it’s not mobile-friendly, prompting Lilly to update the OP. Monikas suggests a full-screen animated intro, while famousamos.1 hopes for future holiday-themed components, with Lilly pointing to existing Christmas options. 祁同伟 asks if decorations can be time-limited to Halloween only. Mobile users remain disappointed, as noted by famousamos.1 and Jagster.

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:discourse2: Summary Halloween Decorations will add some spooky flair to your forum this festive season!
:eyeglasses: Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator
:hammer_and_wrench: Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-halloween-decorations
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Features

:information_source: This theme component only shows for desktop view. :desktop_computer:

This component has three flairs:

  • Bats animation
  • Spider web on both sides
  • Pumpkin loading animation

Happy Halloween! :ghost: :spider_web:

:discourse2: Hosted by us? Theme components are available to use on our Standard, Business, and Enterprise plans.

Last edited by @JammyDodger 2024-10-23T15:06:22Z

Last checked by @Lilly 2024-10-14T21:44:14Z

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This is so cool. Thank you!

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3 posts were split to a new topic: Where’s the pumpkin?

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Is this still desktop only?

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yes it is.

i’ll note it in OP. thanks.

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I think it’s possible to get an open screen animation when clicking into the forum that also hides the content in the refresher

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <style>
    #custom-video-container {
      position: fixed;
      top: 0;
      left: 0;
      width: 100%;
      height: 100%;
      background-color: #2cb9e4;
      z-index: 9999;
      display: flex;
      justify-content: center;
      align-items: center;
      transition: visibility 0s 1s, opacity 1s linear; /* 添加过渡效果 */
      visibility: visible;
      opacity: 1;
    }

    #custom-video {
      width: auto; /* 设置宽度为100% */
      height: auto; /* 高度自动适应 */
    }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="custom-video-container">
    <video id="custom-video" autoplay muted>
      <source src="https://www.justnainai.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e4faa6e98fd8890bbd33a24ef27f63cbb30a9d16.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    </video>
  </div>

  <script>
    document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
      const videoContainer = document.getElementById('custom-video-container');
      const video = document.getElementById('custom-video');

      video.addEventListener('ended', () => {
        setTimeout(() => {
          videoContainer.style.visibility = 'hidden';
          videoContainer.style.opacity = '0';
        }, 10); // 视频结束后3秒钟隐藏
      });
    });
  </script>
</body>
</html>
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My Members love this - so well done. Not obtrusive, just the perfect amount. The pumpkin animation is so fast you almost think you are seeing things - lol. My mobile users are so disappointed - lol, they want it too! And my cat found the bats! I hope we can look forward to something for all the holidays, you know Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Valentines, St. Patricks, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, etc.. and fun stuff for the times between - snow falling, flowers, the beach, fall leaves, etc.

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Hi @famousamos.1 :wave: welcome to Discourse Meta :slight_smile:

we also have

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Woo Hoo! My Members will be so excited - you all know they are going to be expecting some fun decorations all the time, right?? lol

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Except if they are using mobiles… well, someone can be excited when they see few bats and nothing else.

This should be tagged desktop because on mobiles it is broken.

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This is true - my mobile members can’t see these things [yet]

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Is it possible to set a specific time period for activation? For example, this decoration would only appear during Halloween each year.