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  |
2023-12-04T22:00:00Z |
| Copy quote to clipboard | November 13,2023 | Merged into Discourse |
2024-01-07T14:00:00Z |
| Full Screen Login | November 21, 2023 | Merged into Discourse |
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 |
2024-07-10T05:00:00Z |
| New sidebar experiment (Sidebar Feng Shui) | 2024-08-06T05:00:00Z | Merged into Discourse |
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 |
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 |