Hi! I recently upgraded our site to “Discourse v2026.5.0-latest — Commits · discourse/discourse · GitHub — Ember v6.10.1”. It has lots of cool improvements. However, I noticed that it has also started showing the blue dots splash screen on page load: [image] I can’t find the setting to disable th…

Yes, we recently removed the setting to disable this splash screen. The setting was originally added when the feature was experimental, but it’s been stable for years now. Disabling the splash screen actually can result in a worse core web vitals score (a factor in Google rankings), so it was a bit…

[이미지] GaurangBlaze: However, I noticed that it has also started showing the blue dots splash screen on page load: Wow. This was added in 2022, nearly 4 years ago now. You should really be better about updating your site, generally healthy sites are updated every 2-3 weeks… [이미지] …

Hi @darkpixlz I update my forum every four weeks :slightly_smiling_face: It’s a little unexpected. Maybe I’m just noticing the Discourse Splash now or it is showing for longer in recent days.

I would still like to hide the dots, because they make the site look slower even if nothing’s changed. I’m wondering if editing the theme CSS is the right way to achieve this. I’m not sure if the theme CSS will be applied at that early loading stage.

[이미지] GaurangBlaze: splash_screen_image This setting is to replace the blue dots with a cistom loading animations. You could tecnically replace it with something empty, but it might then not provide any indication that the page is loading to your users.

[이미지] darkpixlz: generally healthy sites are updated every 2-3 weeks… [Man Presses Citation Needed Button] [이미지] awesomerobot: Here’s a zip containing a transparent animated SVG, if it’s helpful blank-animated.svg.zip (1 KB) Oh good idea!

I’d say generally healthy sites are updated when the dashboard emoji becomes red :face_with_tongue:

[이미지] awesomerobot: we recently removed the setting to disable this splash screen Thanks for confirming! I’m glad I wasn’t misremembering this :smiley: As per your suggestion, I will monitor our site’s core web vitals score over the coming weeks to understand the impact of the loading indicat…

Discourse 인스턴스에서 "preloader-image"를 비활성화하는 방법?

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Discourse 인스턴스에서 "preloader-image"를 비활성화하는 방법?

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