Alternative display modes for topic list

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Continuing the discussion from Facebook Groups - Zuck is coming for us:

@ChrisBeach

I did some user testing a while ago. The first comment was “it just looks like an Excel spreadsheet.”

I’ve heard this a few times before. Now that we have Customization > Theme component I think we should offer a few alternative display modes by default, such as Sam's Simple Theme.

This is becoming very common in apps with lists of content.

Gmail

Inoreader

Reddit

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Better theme settings on user front-end

Continuing the discussion from We need a "large fonts" and "small fonts" theme to ship with Discourse: Our themes now support dark/light/{any-color-scheme} toggles as well as variable font sizes But user interface for changing these settings is currently very basic: [11] We should have something closer to this (from GitBook): [53] I don’t have access to my usual image editor so here’s a cruder mockup than usual: [untitled1]

[merefield (Robert)]

Haha, funny, the same exact statement was resonating with me all morning.

Of course there is already Angus’ Topic List Preview plug-in? I was just about to try this out because of that thread.

But agree, this is ultimately Core stuff!

Powering this with Themes would make sense

[Stranik (Evgeny)]

I think that’s a great idea! You can make the switch using the internal capabilities of Discourse without third-party plugins.

Working examples where third-party plugins were not used.

Users are very fond of it. A lot of people, and we all have different tastes. Not necessarily of course to meet all, but that is not possible. But being able to choose is a good idea. And since the engine allows it, it’s great.