# 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:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 11:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-splash-a-visual-preloader-displayed-while-site-assets-load/232003/9 "2022-07-17T23:07:58Z")

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My understanding is that we already sync the dark background @Johani ?

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

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