Testing pele as a replacement for mermaid

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The Discourse team has replaced the mermaid theme component with pele on meta for testing purposes. Pele is significantly smaller (6x), faster (up to 500x), dependency-free, MIT licensed, and developed by the Obsidian team. It uses the same ```mermaid syntax, so no changes are needed in existing posts. The theme component is available for other sites to try. Users are asked to report any visual bugs with a link, screenshot, and browser/theme details. Early feedback includes putty noting unclear instructions but confirming it looks good, and satonotdead expressing excitement about its speed and core integration.

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we’ve swapped the mermaid theme component for pele here on meta, for testing purposes :test_tube:

pele is 6x smaller, up to 500x faster, has no dependencies, theme-able with css variables, MIT licensed, and developed by obsidian’s team.

same ```mermaid syntax, so nothing to change in your posts.

here’s the theme component if you want to give it a try on your own site.

flowchart LR
  A[mermaid] -->|swap| B[pele]
  B --> C{looks good?}
  C -->|yes| D[🎉]
  C -->|no| E[reply here]

if you spot any visual bug, please :folded_hands: reply here with

  • a link to the post (or the diagram source)
  • a screenshot
  • your browser and theme (light/dark)

thanks :wink:

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Instructions unclear; no :tada: reaction available :pensive_face:

Looks good!

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Last week I found out about Pele, I thought about trying some internal integration, and today I came across this. Super fast and from the Core, thanks!

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