It was extremely exciting when we decided that the design team would lead one of our biggest projects — creating a new theme, which we decided to call Horizon. The name reflects our hope that this theme expresses a more expansive vision for who can use Discourse and what Discourse communities can look like.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/how-we-built-horizon-with-design-driven-development
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This is the greatest article I’ve ever read. In fact, I’d say the author deserves a Nobel prize for introducing me to the term “dogfooding”.
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I love that that term inspired you to sign up here to say that.
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To be honest, the term has become so internalized in our company that I didn’t even notice it as anything special. But it really is. If the concept intrigues you, then you also need to read this blog post by one of our co-founders:
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