Discourse Design team experimentation topic

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

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
Details styling November 13,2023 Merged into Discourse :rocket: 2023-12-04T22:00:00Z
Copy quote to clipboard November 13,2023 Merged into Discourse :rocket: 2024-01-07T14:00:00Z
Full Screen Login November 21, 2023 Merged into Discourse :rocket: 2023-12-19T06:00:00Z
Hide text in text select popup 2023-12-05T06:00:00Z Will bring into Core at a later date 2024-01-29T06:00:00Z
Emoji line-height Adjustment 2023-12-19T06:00:00Z Paused 2024-01-02T06:00:00Z
Embedded Replies 2024-01-04T06:00:00Z Merged 2024-05-08T05:00:00Z
Select colour variable Jan 22, 2024 Merged into core for default schemes Jan 30 2022
Simplified topic map 2024-05-10T04:00:00Z Will bring into Core at a later date 2024-07-02T04:00:00Z
Header Shadow Removal 2024-05-15T05:00:00Z Merged into Discourse :rocket: 2024-07-10T05:00:00Z
New sidebar experiment (Sidebar Feng Shui) 2024-08-06T05:00:00Z Merged into Discourse :rocket: 2024-10-08T05:00:00Z
Share your feedback about updated notification menu! 2024-08-06T04:00:00Z Core feature, considering default
Improved code block sizing & color scheme 2024-10-31T14:00:00Z Merged into Discourse :rocket: 2024-11-20T06:00:00Z
Enlarged chat avatars in sidebar 2024-11-26T06:00:00Z Merged into Discourse 2025-07-02T22:00:00Z
New onebox styling 2024-12-10T06:00:00Z Merged into Discourse 2025-05-30T05:00:00Z
New header menu styles 2025-06-10T05:00:00Z Merged into Discourse 2025-07-24T05:00:00Z
Permanent fullscreen composer on mobile 18 Jul 2025 Experiment
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