# Is chat stable enough to create themes/components that won't break?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-chat-stable-enough-to-create-themes-components-that-wont-break/244712
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [November 7, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-chat-stable-enough-to-create-themes-components-that-wont-break/244712 "2022-11-07T20:21:30Z")
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### Author:  [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-chat-stable-enough-to-create-themes-components-that-wont-break/244712/1 "2022-11-07T20:21:30Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Swiping to initiate a reply in chat](https://meta.discourse.org/t/swiping-to-initiate-a-reply-in-chat/238212/2):
> [@Swiping to initiate a reply in chat](https://meta.discourse.org/t/swiping-to-initiate-a-reply-in-chat/238212/2):
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> I’ve thought about trying to implement a theme component that would do it but also have gained some hesitance to create themes related to chat as I created one to make the layout look more like WhatsApp and the theme kept breaking with new updates.
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> Is chat stable enough now to start creating more themes/components?
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-chat-stable-enough-to-create-themes-components-that-wont-break/244712/2 "2022-11-07T20:28:48Z")
I think chat is still evolving pretty quickly for themes and theme components, but I’ll see if anyone can comment with more nuance than that (x and y are likely to change less frequently; better to stay away from z for now).
Any more context about what kinds of things you’d like to be able to customize would be helpful as well.
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### Author:  [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-chat-stable-enough-to-create-themes-components-that-wont-break/244712/4 "2022-11-08T08:09:46Z")
Sure, I can add more context for what I want to do now:
- Chat messages to look more like WhatsApp/iMessage/Signal bubbles, with left to right alignment and bubble outline
- Chat replies to look more like WhatsApp, to be blockquotes included in the bubbles, including any media or links from the original message
- Font size on the mobile input box, as it seems quite small compared to other chat apps
- Swipe to reply to chat messages on mobile, maybe using [http://hammerjs.github.io/](http://hammerjs.github.io/)
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-chat-stable-enough-to-create-themes-components-that-wont-break/244712/6 "2022-11-08T13:31:07Z")
I would recommend you wait a little bit more. We have various renames which will happen. I was waiting for us moving chat to core and it happened last week. Hopefully it happens in the coming month.
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### Author:  [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-chat-stable-enough-to-create-themes-components-that-wont-break/244712/7 "2022-11-08T14:21:12Z")
Oh, excellent, I hope that happens soon and appreciate the heads up 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-chat-stable-enough-to-create-themes-components-that-wont-break/244712/8 "2022-12-08T14:22:11Z")
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