# Feng Shui (Simplifying the UI for new users) **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [August 18, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feng-shui-simplifying-the-ui-for-new-users/322154 "2024-08-18T13:15:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![kOS](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kos/32/441826_2.png) [@kOS](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kOS)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feng-shui-simplifying-the-ui-for-new-users/322154/1 "2024-08-18T13:15:06Z")
Hi guys, Im about to start using discourse in a community. As much as I love Discourse… I dislike the UI/UX of it. Subjectively, it is when starting at it as a user somehow unintuitive. As the title says, Id like to practice some feng shui for the beginning and reduce discourse UI to a minimum, until users got more and more onboarded. With time… we would activate feature per feature, step by step, depending on what the community likes to add. Im looking for some recommendations of what engines we could turn off for the start, and what we need as a bare minimum. Additionally, I’d like to learn from you how we can deactivate “Messages” and us “DMs” ONLY. Having two ways of 1:1 chat, additionally to interacting in Topics, sounds a bit over the top for me. Why is there Messages alongside DMs anyway, can we deactivate Messages as we can deactivate Chat and its Integrations? Thanks for helping me getting the UI of the community Im making clean and less busy… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feng-shui-simplifying-the-ui-for-new-users/322154)._