Hi there, I just upgraded to 3.5.0. In previous versions it would immediately apply CSS modifications in theme components without reloading the page. This doesn’t seem to be working anymore. Is it broken, or is it disabled? Thanks a lot!

It’s disabled on production instances, per this topic: [image]Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes Live reloads of stylesheets have been disabled for production instances, because they were causing problems when updating themes and/or Discourse core. (…) Live-loading is still enabled for development-mode Discourse instances.

No more live reload with CSS modifications?

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) August 23, 2025, 5:11am 2

It’s disabled on production instances, per this topic:

Topic		Replies	Views
Live Reload in Production Theme component	4	428	December 29, 2025
CSS auto refresh not working? Bug	6	1180	February 22, 2019
Template Overrides Removal - Can someone explain? Product Support	8	338	March 21, 2025
Custom CSS updates - NICE! Praise	0	1696	February 19, 2016
Made some changes I cannot revert Product Support	12	2260	February 27, 2020

No more live reload with CSS modifications?

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