Peronsal Customizable Forum Themes

[ChizbeJoe]

I’m sure I am not the first one to suggest this, but wouldn’t it be nice for a user to be able personally customize how the forum looks for them. Just to be clear, this wouldn’t change the look of the forum for everyone, only for yourself.

Example theme comparison I made:
Before and After.

This is a feature that would allow a user to change a forum’s look to their personal preference.

[riking]

This is already possible with browser extensions such as Stylish, but there’s a sharing problem (it’s hard to give your style to other people).

[sam]

Raised this years ago.

User based plugins

When I use Discourse I would like to have some very specific settings set up. I would like to use ACE editor with Vim bindings to compose. I would like a nicer and more sophisticated UI to manage my drafts I would like to suppress some of the visual noise in the topic list At the moment we support the concept of “forum” based plugins. I forum owner can elect to enable a number of plugins for all users. However, this does not really fit here. I would like a list of extensions to be always up …

You can build a customisation that allows users to select between various styles.

[codinghorror]

See this:

Letting users select different themes

Continuing the discussion from What about an easier styling/theming system?: Will your theming system support showing different themes for different users? I’m not talking about completely different themes with HTML and JS changes. But it occurred to me that it could be rather nice to let users pick between a Light vs a Dark theme on our forum, provided we’ve made our theme to support that feature of course, because that shouldn’t be a given for every Discourse theme. Example from Tweetdeck: …