Does the Discourse team ever nudge very large, third-party instances in the right direction?

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Gradle is, obviously, immensely popular, as the backbone for Java, and, thus, AOSP. However, its Discourse instance is literally unusable:

I realise that this may appear extraneous, but would it be unreasonable for just someone from the Discourse team to contact the site operators, to nudge them in the correct direction? I ask because it would provide a very poor first impression, if I were a new Discourse user.

For comparison, albeit partially because it’s so absurdly restrictive, proprietary alternatives generally wouldn’t permit CSS overrides, that so gratuitously violate WCAG AA.

My sincere apologies if this is off-topic, if the answer is no.

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Context: https://discuss.gradle.org/

I had a look and eventho the colour issues are definitely valid, the overall first impression of the forum isn’t bad at all. I’ve seen way worse.

In general, reaching out to nudge a forum is not something we do, unless it is dramatic.

I can see from the comments in the github report that the forum admins may be aware and are just ignoring the issue… While unfortunate, that is their prerogative

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By using safe-mode you can disable all customizations for your user session.

Just visit through this link https://discuss.gradle.org/?safe_mode=no_themes

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