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 (1)
- Topic Voting (2)
- Assign (3)
- Good old tags (4)
- Excerpts (when available [1])
We have also rearranged the layout, refined spacing and typography, and expanded the last-reply preview; aiming for a balanced experience.
Desktop
Mobile
One thing you might notice on mobile: the category and tag section can overflow and become horizontally scrollable.
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How do I enable this?
The forum admin can find a new setting on the theme page. The default remains simple, but those who want to give it a whirl can switch.
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.
For now, we invite you to try it out for a while, on your own forum or here on Meta.
Enable with bin/rails r ‘SiteSetting.always_include_topic_excerpts = true’ ↩︎