# Discourse Design team experimentation topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** design-experiment
**Created:** [November 13, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362 "2023-11-13T22:27:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@jordan.vidrine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan.vidrine)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/1 "2023-11-13T22:27:08Z")
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> ## Update
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> To see these changes here on meta, please join this group: [@discourse-design-experiments](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/discourse-design-experiments)
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> The changes will be scoped to only those members belonging the group here on meta.
This topic will house the Discourse Design Team’s current experiments running on Meta. We will document what the current running experiments are here in this topic in a table.
After a test run of an experiment, each one will get a final decision from our team:
- Promote to core, or
- Abandon, or
- Ship in dedicated theme component
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Please feel free to let us know what you think of any of the ongoing experiments we are currently working on. As discussion takes place, we will separate the conversation into topics of their own.
| Experiment | Started | Status | End |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Improving dismiss button navigation (mobile)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-dismiss-button-navigation-mobile/387322) | October 31 2025 | Experiment | Ongoing |
| [Details styling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/details-in-topic-styling-changes-feedback/285364) | November 13,2023 | Merged into Discourse 🚀 | 2023-12-04T22:00:00Z |
| [Copy quote to clipboard](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-quote-copy-to-clipboard-button-feedback/285376/2) | November 13,2023 | Merged into Discourse 🚀 | 2024-01-07T14:00:00Z |
| [Full Screen Login](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-screen-login-create-account-feedback/286258) | November 21, 2023 | [Merged into Discourse 🚀](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preview-our-new-fullscreen-signup-and-login-pages/334456) | 2023-12-19T06:00:00Z |
| [Hide text in text select popup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-text-in-text-select-popup-menu-feedback/287656) | 2023-12-05T06:00:00Z | Will bring into Core at a later date | 2024-01-29T06:00:00Z |
| [Emoji line-height Adjustment](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-line-height-adjustment-feedback/289261) | 2023-12-19T06:00:00Z | Paused 2024-01-02T06:00:00Z | |
| [Embedded Replies](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedded-replies-feedback/290538) | 2024-01-04T06:00:00Z | [Merged](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/26876) | 2024-05-08T05:00:00Z |
| [Select colour variable](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selected-list-item-background-colour/292487) | Jan 22, 2024 | Merged into core for default schemes | Jan 30 2022 |
| [Simplified topic map](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feedback-on-our-simplified-topic-map-experiment/307584) | 2024-05-10T04:00:00Z | Will bring into Core at a later date | 2024-07-02T04:00:00Z |
| [Header Shadow Removal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-drop-shadow-removal-feedback/308101) | 2024-05-15T05:00:00Z | [Merged into Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/27843) 🚀 | 2024-07-10T05:00:00Z |
| [New sidebar experiment (Sidebar Feng Shui)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-feng-shui/320459) | 2024-08-06T05:00:00Z | Merged into Discourse 🚀 | 2024-10-08T05:00:00Z |
| [Share your feedback about updated notification menu!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-your-feedback-about-updated-notification-menu/320403) | 2024-08-06T04:00:00Z | Core feature, considering default | |
| [Improved code block sizing & color scheme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-code-block-font-sizing/333946) | 2024-10-31T14:00:00Z | [Merged into Discourse 🚀](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/29870) | 2024-11-20T06:00:00Z |
| [Enlarged chat avatars in sidebar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-avatar-size-increase-in-sidebar/338400) | 2024-11-26T06:00:00Z | [Merged into Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/33468) | 2025-07-02T22:00:00Z |
| [New onebox styling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-onebox-styling/341687) | 2024-12-10T06:00:00Z | [Merged into Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/33015) | 2025-05-30T05:00:00Z |
| [New header menu styles](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-header-dropdown-notification-menu-styles/369574) | 2025-06-10T05:00:00Z | [Merged into Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/33795) | 2025-07-24T05:00:00Z |
| [Permanent fullscreen composer on mobile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-composer-permanent-full-screen/374766) | 18 Jul 2025 | [UX: always keep mobile composer at fullscreen by chapoi · Pull Request #34358 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/34358) | |
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### Author:  [@tpetrov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tpetrov)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/8 "2023-12-13T21:16:42Z")
The experimentation topic is a great idea!
Would it make sense to have [voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-topic-voting/40121/270)? I think some people might like/dislike a feature, but are less vocal, or don’t have much more to add to the conversation than “like it/don’t like it”.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/9 "2023-12-13T22:11:25Z")
Feature (/ux) voting on meta has cropped up a couple of times. I wonder if now would be a good time to have an experiment in that?
What do you think @sam @mcwumbly @jordan.vidrine?
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### Author:  [@jordan.vidrine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan.vidrine)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/10 "2023-12-18T14:38:56Z")
That could be interesting. It would only be scoped to the specific “feedback” topics tied to the experiments right?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/11 "2023-12-19T10:14:31Z")
I think the topic voting plugin can only currently do categories and not tags, so it would be enabled for all #Contribute > Feature and #Contribute > UX topics (though not all #Contribute > UX topics would really be ‘votable’ ones as it houses some non-breaking visual bugs as well as ux improvements).
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/14 "2024-01-23T07:22:08Z")
> [@jordan.vidrine](#):
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> Hide text in text select popup
@jordan.vidrine Think we need to make a decision about this one. Been on for more than a month. Based on the feedback topic, I _think_ we can merge?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/18 "2024-02-29T14:50:22Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/19 "2024-02-29T14:50:42Z")
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### Author:  [@lindsey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lindsey)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/21 "2025-03-27T19:27:50Z")
9 posts were split to a new topic: [Feedback on new fullscreen signup / login designs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feedback-on-new-fullscreen-signup-login-designs/359190)
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### Author:  [@jordan.vidrine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan.vidrine)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/23 "2025-06-10T16:51:12Z")
Just an update, we have a new experiment here on meta for the header menu styling.
[New header dropdown / notification menu styles](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-header-dropdown-notification-menu-styles/369574)
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### Author:  [@jordan.vidrine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan.vidrine)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/24 "2025-06-18T17:36:51Z")
A post was merged into an existing topic: [New header dropdown / notification menu styles](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-header-dropdown-notification-menu-styles/369574/62)
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-design-team-experimentation-topic/285362/29 "2026-04-03T02:50:00Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Finding Discourse design resources](https://meta.discourse.org/t/finding-discourse-design-resources/399847)