# Introducing Discourse Splash - A visual preloader displayed while site assets load

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-splash-a-visual-preloader-displayed-while-site-assets-load/232003>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** new-feature, splash\
**Created:** [July 5, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-splash-a-visual-preloader-displayed-while-site-assets-load/232003 "2022-07-05T17:15:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![seanblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-splash-a-visual-preloader-displayed-while-site-assets-load/232003/12 "2022-07-18T23:44:48Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> Trouble is that it can take a couple of seconds for the server to tell us we are dealing with a dark theme, we could improve second load with service worker wizardry, but it is a very very tricky problem

Strangely enough, it seems to be based on whether my OS is set to light or dark mode, and Discourse does the opposite of what I’d expect. Basically, when set to dark mode Discourse flashes white, but when set to light mode, Discourse shows a dark page until content loads.

Here is dark mode. Note that it starts dark (iOS waiting to get data from the server), then flashes white (initial page load for Discourse I think), then loads the dark theme I have set:

And here is light mode. It starts white (iOS waiting to get data from the server), then turns dark (initial page load for Discourse I think), then stays in the dark theme I have set:

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