A reddit-ish theme for Discourse

[Damian_Boon]

I have been messing about with this amazing theme and been using it for while and just wanted to share what i changed.

1. I got rid of the create topic above the topics as this caused issues with people posting in the wrong categories. Instead i added a “Create Post” menu link in the header by using

Custom Header Links (icons)

Introducing Font Awesome 5 and SVG icons Hi, I’m not able to render a custom svg icon and I welcome your help identifying what I’m doing wrong. I have uploaded an svg file to the Default theme: [image] Then I have added the following to this theme component: [image] [image] I have used icons-sprite, fa-icons-sprite, and fab-icons-sprite, but the svg doesn’t render. The placeholder is there, one can click it, and the link works, but the rectangle has no icon in it. The inspector shows…

2. I hated the fact the right sidebar wasn’t easily configurable. (My suggestion would be add the right sidebar blocks as standard to core theme) I hid this by using

.custom-right-sidebar {
        display: none;
}

then installled

Right Sidebar Blocks

Summary Right Sidebar Blocks shows a sidebar to the right of topic lists with a configurable list of blocks. Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-right-sidebar-blocks New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features The component includes a few blocks you can display in the sidebar: popular-tags …

3. Then i created a theme component which makes the sidebar sticky and scrollable, similar to reddit. I also added this to topics but found it a little distracting so ended up removing it.

4. I added likes to the topic list next to the replies and styled

Show likes on topics lists and categories - Redditish theme

[Screenshot 2026-07-26 022632]

Example of these can be found when viewing the site on desktop at https://www.carptalk-online.co.uk/