# Help us test Horizon, our newest theme

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-horizon-our-newest-theme/360484>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** horizon-theme\
**Created:** [April 7, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-horizon-our-newest-theme/360484 "2025-04-07T17:53:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![schneeland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/schneeland/32/275391_2.png) [@schneeland](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schneeland)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-horizon-our-newest-theme/360484/43 "2025-04-13T12:54:49Z")

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Finally also got to test this a bit.

In agreement with what others have said:

- I like that you got rid of the no. of views here
- I generally like that the design of the topic cards is cleaner and focuses on the essentials
- I’m not convinced that moving “New topic” to the side bar is a good idea
- Similarly, I’m not sure if the “welcome back” is really needed - it seems like something that should be displayed only temporarily at best

In addition:

- The default font size seems _really_ large to me, especially on Desktop. This also creates the need to scroll in the side bar to see all items (last item I can see is “All tags”). I know I can bump it down, but maybe it would be worth revisiting the default.

 ![Font size](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/9/1/e91cbc65337f6507c83bff5bdb93ff90986f808b.png)

- Because the category is now on the right, there’s basically no alignment between the like and reply info blocks, which creates a bit of a restless impression

 ![Alignment](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/a/d/9ad4e2cfd90169ceb46cb2d4bf901e847cce9cb4.png)

- Setting the theme to full width, there’s a lot of white space on Desktop. I would prefer to at least have the option to not use full screen here (on mobile, things are fine).

 ![White space](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/a/b/2abefc9e394126e4aff42e442b5728f775ed53c2.png)

- While I generally like that category and tag filters have moved to the right, it highlights that there is a fair amount of redundancy in terms of navigation (three options to navigate categories, two options to navigate tags). I tend to say this is a general design problem Discourse currently has, but the Horizon theme emphasizes it.

 ![Categories and tags](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/8/9/58989779cbaf4783fa297fb704257495d529a3c6.png)

- This also makes me realize: it seems there are no tags on the topic cards - have they been omitted by design?

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