I want to replace the Discourse splash animation with the Pulse animation. (please check the animation in codepen ) How should I do it?

I don’t know but I would like to raise another point: if an user sees splash animation there is some bigger issues than how it looks. And when the googlebot sees it and gives a little bit better scores, it doesn’t care how it looks :wink: My point is how to change animation is not important fix a…

The actual problem is not the server issue or else. I am from Sri Lanka. These days we are in a massive economic crisis. Due to the economic crisis, authorities are commencing powercuts because they cannot manage fuel powerplants. Due to these power cuts, telecommunication companies have degraded th…

This is the internet speed right now :smiling_face_with_tear: [Screenshot 2022-07-28 at 3.53.30 PM]

Well, the situation in Sri Lanka is bad indeed, Your case is an exception, if/when your main audience is from Sri Lanka too. Hopefully someone can guide you to right direction. But AFAIK it can’t be changed easily, though.

Thanks mate. Let’s see how to do it.

I don’t think it’s possible to edit from a theme, because it would involve editing an erb file; this one specifically: discourse/app/views/common/_discourse_splash.html.erb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub Since the splash screen loads before much of the Discourse app, I suspect it would be p…

That’s correct :+1: The splash loads before any core JS/CSS. The current implementation doesn’t focus on customization, but v2 will. The plan is to serve the splash image from localStorage for slightly increased performance and since it allows admins to set something custom via an inline <script> t…

You can’t directly edit the ERB splash template from a theme, and since the splash loads before core CSS/JS, customization is tricky. The CSS you write in the theme’s normal CSS/SCSS tabs is compiled and loaded only after the splash loader shows. So even if your CSS works there, the original dots a…

How to change Discourse splash animation?

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awesomerobot (Kris) February 4, 2026, 2:43pm 10

We’ve announced a new feature to allow a custom image: Branding the Discourse splash screen with custom SVG images

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How to change Discourse splash animation?

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