# Change loading animation
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-loading-animation/353990
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** splash
**Created:** [February 23, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-loading-animation/353990 "2025-02-23T19:28:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Timelord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Timelord)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-loading-animation/353990/1 "2025-02-23T19:28:06Z")
Does anyone know if it is possible to change the loading animation when you first hit a Discourse site?
The four or five circular dots…
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-loading-animation/353990/2 "2025-02-23T19:34:25Z")
There are old discussions about this topic
> [@Introducing Discourse Splash - A visual preloader displayed while site assets load](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-splash-a-visual-preloader-displayed-while-site-assets-load/232003/6):
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> The splash lives in a different CSS scope, so sadly, you won’t be able to modify the CSS via themes. That said, we do have planned improvements, and I started with this one. Once the change is live on your site, the splash dots will use the colors from your current theme.
> [@How to change Discourse splash animation?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-discourse-splash-animation/234251/8):
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> That’s correct +1 The splash loads before any core JS/CSS. The current implementation doesn’t focus on customization, but v2 will. The plan is to serve the splash image from localStorage for slightly increased performance and since it allows admins to set something custom via an inline \ tag in the theme head\_tag field. There’s currently no ETA for this work, and it needs a bit of testing, but it’s planned.
I don’t know if anything was done in the end to make modifications easy, and I don’t recall any topic featuring a custom splash.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-loading-animation/353990/3 "2026-02-04T14:43:03Z")
It’s possible now
> [@Branding the Discourse splash screen with custom SVG images](https://meta.discourse.org/t/branding-the-discourse-splash-screen-with-custom-svg-images/395100):
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> This feature has been highly requested here on Meta [Personal branding for the splash screen](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-branding-for-the-splash-screen/304711) . We have now added the option to add an SVG, either static or animated, as the splash screen image to replace this default loading dot indicator: If a static SVG is used, then it appears above the loading dot animation: otherwise if an animated SVG is used it replaces the dots entirely: Note that for performance reasons, animated SVGs should use CSS transform or opacity …
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2026, 7:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-loading-animation/353990/4 "2026-05-08T07:34:41Z")