# Sam's Simple Theme **URL:** \ **Category:** Theme\ **Tags:** official, sams-simple-theme\ **Created:** [December 31, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552 "2014-12-31T03:20:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 264
**Author:** ![ljpp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ljpp/32/96506_2.png) [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 8:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/264 "2018-01-15T08:31:43Z")
This totally depends on your community. For us the avatars on the index page are just clown vomit. The reason is that 99% of the topics on our would have the maximum number of avatars shown. This produces a wide and colorful column to the middle of the screen, which has too much weight against a natural white background, and adds very little information as all topics are popular - everybody jumps to every topic. Very different to the user behavior that we see for example here. One way to look at it is the topics/posts ratio. Here at Meta there are **160** new topics and **2.8k** posts for the last 7 days. On our community there are only **22** topics but **4.1k** posts for the same period. The avatars do work on small and growing communities, as it makes the front page look busy / active. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552)._