How to adjust topics so they load in a modal?

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Ideally I’d like topics to show up in a modal sliding in from the right side, while the category view is still shown in the background.

Similar to the old Product Hunt layout, or the reddit iPad app layout ( https://youtu.be/shzUF7FGNpI?t=18s ) - or a similar view to Outlook/email clients.

Basically I’d like to prevent a page change on topic view, I want to show the topic in the right half of the screen, while still showing the category overview in a list view on the left side.

Is this possible - how would I attempt this?

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What are you calling “threads”? There is no such thing in :discourse:

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Topics - where the content of a topic is displayed. I’d like to display it in a modal, while the category view is still active.

Edited the first post for clarity

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Hi mastef welcome to the forum

Kind of what Safari does with “open in split view”?

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Thank you

Yes, something pretty similar would be nice. How would you attempt to do it?

I saw that when a topic is loaded there’s obviously a json call - but the rendering already happens with an ember view I guess, right? Which events are fired? Is this something that would be feasible to implement provided there must be additional listeners per topic.

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This sounds like a modification that would require a lot of engineering to build. Do you really, really need that and have a sizeable budget for it? If not, I don’t think you will get very far :frowning:

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Thanks, I’m an engineer. Modding is a passion :rofl:

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