Originally published at: Discourse 2.6 released!
Today we release Discourse 2.6, building on Discourse 2.5 from June. For post 2.0 releases we’ve chosen a new set of codenames based on the history of human communication; this release is Baudot. Improved Category Moderation In this release, category moderators have been granted many more abilities. In addition to handling the review queue for…
This is super nice! I love Discourse very much <3
Re: Font selection, please consider making the fixed-width font configurable as well. This Consolas nonsense is turrible.
Mostly because the 1
and l
are so easily confused, it almost feels deliberate.
(It’s worst when they’re seen in isolation — side-by-side they look different, but an l
viewed all by itself could easily be either glyph. “What command did you run?” ls
. “And how long did it take to execute?” Less than 1s
. “Well I would hope ls
executes in under 1s
!”)
How is it not configurable? Simply override the css rules on your site in admin, customize.
I think the feature request here is to “make it super easy”
Coming up with the name for the font is kind of hard, I am not against this in principle but this may be … too much choice.
As you said, already perfectly easy to change in a theme component.