Hello On our community, the content can be quite upsetting, but it’s also easy to just keep scrolling and absorbing. We’ve had user feedback that they can find reading upsetting, but feel compelled to. Is there any type of feature where I could implement a dwell time or read time pop up modal, to remind users to check in with themselves about how they might be feeling? Thank you!

What about using [image] Take a break! Theme component Theme component What is it? After a discussion about moderators about spending an extended amount of time on the screen, I decided it’ll be best to remind staff members(and non-staff!) to frequently take a break from the forums after looking at it for a long time. New update: It also works on non-staff and can be toggled on and off via theme settings. What does it do? This theme component shows an alert message after the member is on the forums for x amount of seconds. So 30 minutes would be 1800 seconds unt…

Thank you, this is just what I’m looking for!

So unfortunately this feature is depreciated so we can’t install it on our theme. Is there anything similar?

I will see if I can fix it today. :+1:

[image] Take a break! Theme component Theme component I made the PR +1 It has been merged, thanks Chaboi! clap Note this is a simple update. I’ve seen interesting suggestions/features that may be worth to implement: Observe the context to not popup the modal at the wrong time (such as writing) Frequency option Move the text from settings to locale Once merged, this should fix your issue. :slight_smile:

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