I have done some more styling consistency checks and a few changed as requested by users.
You will notice here the default order of the footer has been changed. Someone noted that its too busy, so swapped that bit out .
Towards the top I had to break out the compact user menu. Users were just not taking to the change that everything is in here so I broke out the alerts and messages. They are dynamic so that if you have a message your compact catch all avatar stays without a number but your bell icon or DM icon gets a number(s)
You can see this on the mobile view here :
It works for desktop too!
Some users were getting frustrated that a newly re-visited topic was all the way to the top of the timeline so I created two buttons. One to cycle them to the last post and the other to return.
I found the side bar menu ( left ) to be too big so I stripped out just about everything we dont need. Added in custom menus and condensed them automatically.
Its always on the left hand mid side. I found this minimised the mouse travel on larger screens
I restyled the right side block and tried to make everything consistent!
I did some optimisation on the categories so that it was slightly less transparent :
More changes include a twin user meta divider line to segregate the user from the post data.
And I conceded and had to use the reply quote. It was alienating a lot of users.
I need to apologise - I had to add sudo pages. Blocks of 25 posts make up a new “page” I dont understand why some people were reluctant to embrace infinity scroll. However we now have both.
The mobile version is excellent. I really do like the way that discourse does this.