Rebuilding the Meta Branded theme: New icons, a custom homepage, and a first look at the Blocks API

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

Did this design got fixed at the same time I wrote my previous post?

Or did I fix it simply by thinking about it? What kind of magic is this?

[manuel (Manuel Kostka)]

Could be synchronous magic

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

I honestly thought I was going crazy when I went back on the voted topic just to take a better screenshot of the header, and noticed it was not the same anymore

[manuel (Manuel Kostka)]

Our most exclusive support plan: just think about it, and it is fixed.

Doesn’t come with a contract though

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

I’m really looking forward to being able to utilise some of this tooling. Excited even!

It is absolutely what we need to really lift our Discourse instances, and enable transformation from a website component to the full website itself.

For small organisations in particular this will allow them to have a much simpler (and thus cheaper and easier) ‘IT stack’.

Can’t wait!

[manuel (Manuel Kostka)]

@nathank

I’m really looking forward to being able to utilise some of this tooling. Excited even!

Here you go

Skills for authoring themes and blocks

A repository of Claude Code skills for building Discourse themes and block components: What’s included Theme Authoring Skill — covers a comprehensive scope of building a Discourse theme: scaffolding with the discourse_theme CLI, SCSS architecture, viewport library, localization, settings, modifiers, value transformers, icons, and CSS variables. Detailed reference files for icons, variables, and transformers are included separately and can be loaded on demand. SKILL.md Block Authori…

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

@Canapin

Icons on the topic list are very, very small:

Icons in front of topic titles,like the bookmark icon, are tiny too: