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