At the moment I see a very bland loading screen, I noticed that discourse meta has a fancy loading splash screen. I was wondering how I can customize the loading splash screen on my own site? Thanks for any answers!

You can amend the text displayed on the screen by heading to: https://YOURSITE/admin/customize/site_texts and editing js.preloader_text The preloader SVG will have the alt text of your site title (set via Site Settings title) The actual SVG cannot be customized, and we only offer dark and light v…

If anybody could help with this and how to replace the dots, I want it to be more consistent and use the default loading spinner that would be nice :slight_smile:

Agreed, on my site it only shows text: “Loading…” and I would like to spice it up a bit..

[image] Introducing Discourse Splash - A visual preloader displayed while site assets load megaphoneAnnouncements The splash lives in a different CSS scope, so sadly, you won’t be able to modify the CSS via themes. That said, we do have planned improvements, an…

Comment personnaliser l'écran de chargement splash ?

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Comment personnaliser l'écran de chargement splash ?

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