# Horizon: High Context Topic Cards

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizon-high-context-topic-cards/393470
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** horizon-theme
**Created:** [January 16, 2026, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizon-high-context-topic-cards/393470 "2026-01-16T13:24:11Z")
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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2026, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/horizon-high-context-topic-cards/393470/1 "2026-01-16T13:24:11Z")

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## What’s new in Horizon?

We’re happy to announce the next iteration for the Horizon theme: **high-context topic cards**.

These cards surface key signals at a glance, pulling in data from familiar favourites:

- [Solved](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-solved/30155) (1)
- [Topic Voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-topic-voting/40121) (2)
- [Assign](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-assign/58044) (3)
- Good old tags (4)
- Excerpts

We have also rearranged the layout, refined spacing and typography, and expanded the last-reply preview; aiming for a balanced experience.

### Desktop

 ![CleanShot 2026-01-14 at 19.12.48@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/a/d/eadd37184899de57d2ffc5622d33dc9b4ee4a077.jpeg)

### Mobile

 ![CleanShot 2026-01-14 at 19.19.04@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/a/3/4a331f22645a0ee5c4ad7d1e9fecf09ee2598560.jpeg)

One thing you might notice on mobile: the category and tag section can overflow and become horizontally scrollable.  
`#itsafeaturenotabug`

## How do I enable this?

The forum admin can find a new setting on the theme page. By default this is unchecked to keep using the simple version, but those who want to give it a whirl can switch.

 ![CleanShot 2026-01-27 at 13.46.07@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/7/5/e75dec1690f49d85ef8cfb41a02dd62099674845.png)

Despite our in-house testing and our assumption that all should behave well, we are labelling it as experimental for the time being. It _should_ work as expected, but we might iterate further on the design and work out some kinks.

## What’s next?

We are planning to make the choice between the two modes available per user, rather than as a single global forum setting. That’s on the roadmap, just not quite ready yet.

~~We’re also looking into making the excerpts appear automatically.~~

This has been done ⬆

For now, we invite you to try it out for a while, on your own forum or here on Meta.

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